$200,000 - $220,000 yearly
Koya Partners
Chicago, New York, Washington, DC or Harlingen, TX
About the Young Center
The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights (“the Young Center”) is the leading, national organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights and best interests—safety and well-being—of immigrant children in deportation proceedings in the United States. The Young Center’s goal is to change immigration practice, policy and the law so that immigrant children are recognized by immigration judges, asylum officers, custodial and enforcement officials as children and their best interests are considered in every decision. The Young Center works to achieve this goal through both its Child Advocate and Policy programs.
Through the Young Center Child Advocate program, attorneys and social workers are appointed as Child Advocate (guardian ad litem) by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). Their role is to advocate for the children's best interests while they are subject to deportation. This includes...