Toolkits

Advocacy Toolkit: Religious Workers Are Essential

This toolkit serves as a resource which will point out current issues, updates, the policy brief and ways you can advocate for foreign-born religious workers, starting today.

 

Asylee Information

This toolkit provides service eligibility and programs information across the country that assist asylees need for a smooth adjustment and early self-sufficiency.

 

Case Management

This toolkit is intended to facilitate the process of designing and/or improving the case management system in immigration program.

 

Citizenship

This toolkit contains a variety of resources collected and produced through CLINIC's citizenship projects.

 

Civic Participation

Civic participation is an important element of immigrant integration. This toolkit gathers resources from past and current CLINIC initiatives along with many other resources from the field.

 

Communities to Advocate Against ICE Partnerships with Local Law Enforcement Agencies

This toolkit is intended to facilitate the process of designing and/or improving the case management system in immigration program.

 

Community Education

This toolkit contains a variety resources of Catholic Social Teaching (CST), DACA, Family Based Integration, General, Naturalization, Removal Proceedings, and VAWA and U Visa.

 

Creating a Citizenship Preparation Program

This toolkit is designed for service providers and teaching professionals interested in creating a citizenship program.

 

Creating a Workplace ELL Program

This toolkit provides programs interested in pursuing partnerships with local employers willing to offer English language classes to their employees.

 

DOJ Recognition and Accreditation

This toolkit is designed to educate agencies on the need for DOJ recognition and accreditation and to assist them in the application process.

 

Fee Schedule Fighters

This toolkit contains sample social media and talking points to help organizations and individuals raise awareness of the USCIS proposed fee schedule and to put out press statements and op-eds.

 

Immigration Reform: Your Lenten Promise - Justice for Immigrants

This toolkit is designed to help reflect the biblical call for immigration reform, and act to impact current political reality.

 

Integration

This toolkit provides ideas for working with local officials on immigrant integration.

 

Legal Services Practitioner (Affiliate-Only)

The toolkit includes sample practice materials, cover letters, document checklists, affidavits and other pleadings.

 

Naturalization Workshops

This toolkit is designed to help charitable immigration programs achieve a successful workshop.

 

Partnership

This toolkit includes sample materials for managing a partnership, guidelines for working within a partnership, and tips on what to look for in a potential partner.

 

Public Comment

This toolkit is designed to learn more about public comment process.

 

Rapid Response

This toolkit is provides best practices and lessons learned from communities conducting rapid responses during ICE raids and arrests

 

Removal (Affiliate-Only)

This toolkit includes resources to help you represent clients who are in pending removal proceedings or have an outstanding removal order.

 

Refugee Resettlement

This toolkit is designed to help understand refugee resettlement.

 

Sanctuary Cities

This toolkit provides statistics related to the financial contributions undocumented immigrants make to local economies, as well as public policy arguments to support immigrant-friendly communities.

 

Staff Orientation to Charitable Immigration Legal Services

The guide is intended to assist supervisors of new hires in the on-boarding process and ultimately make new staff more effective advocates for immigrants.

 

State and Local Governments on USCIS Proposed Fee Changes

This toolkit highlights the harm the USCIS proposed fee policy could have on states and localities.

 

United States Census 2020 Faith (English - Spanish)

This toolkit is designed to help faith leaders like you ensure that everyone in your community is counted so that your local schools, roads and hospitals get their fair share of funding and your community receives fair political representation at all levels of government.

 

Volunteer Management

This toolkit provides helpful information on how to recruit, retain and incorporate the volunteers into immigration reform program's plan.