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Reconnect, Restore, Inspire
Unaccompanied Children’s Service Provider Training 2023
March 1-3
Hotel ZaZa Museum District,
Houston
Let’s Go Play by KIND’s Anonymous Boston ClientTABLE OF CONTENTS ORGANIZERS AND PATRONS
1 Welcome Letter
Organizers Advisory Committee
Meredith Linksy,
Director, Meredith Linsky, Stephany Arzaga
Director,
ABA Commission Betty Balli Torres
American Bar Association,
on Immigration Commission on Immigration Jiveli Banegas
Maria Odom, Alexander Nasserjah, Laura Belous
Kids in Need of Defense Program Specialist, Brenda Bower Soder
American Bar Association,
(KIND) Dalia Castillo-Granados
Commission on Immigration
Sara Dunsky
Juliann Bildhauer
2 Honoree
Cindy Bernal
Senior Director,
Legal Training, KIND
Lauren Fisher Flores
Laura Flores Bachman
Andrea Mangones, Diana Goyco
Director,
Cristina Infanzon
Legal Training, KIND
3 Featured
Speakers Laura Rheinheimer,
Kristen Jackson
Event Consultant Betty Jones
Alexandra Manrique
Raul Martinez
7 Conference
Location
Karla McKanders
Alexander Nasserjah
Hotel ZaZa José Ortiz-Rosales
Floor Plan
Jennifer Podkul
Laura Rheinheimer
8 Dinner Location Elizabeth Sanchez Kennedy
Maureen Schad
Directions to
Houston Zoo Alexa Sendukas
Cory Shindel
Elissa Steglich
9 Agenda Marien Velez
Angela Vigil
Yasmin Yavar
15 Art Exhibit Cheryl Zalenski
Seeking Safety,
Creating Change
For more event
information and
updates please Thank you!
scan this QR Migrant youth working
code to visit the with KIND staff in Mexico.
event website. Photo by Brett GundlockWELCOME LETTER CONFERENCE HONOREE
Cindy Bernal
The 2023 Unaccompanied Children’s Training Conference Advisory Committee is pleased to honor Cindy Bernal
and recognize her incredible work and dedication to advocating for unaccompanied children.
Welcome to the ABA/KIND Unaccompanied Children’s Service Provider Training: Reconnect, Cindy Bernal was born in San Salvador, El Salvador. When she
Restore, Inspire. This training has been made possible by the generous support of many sponsors was five years old, she came to the United States with her mother to
including the American Bar Association, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), Baker McKenzie, and RAICES. join her father and siblings. Cindy has vague memories of living in El
Salvador, but she has spent most of her life in Texas, both in Houston
This is the first national training on serving unaccompanied children since December 2019, when we
and the Rio Grande Valley. Cindy always knew that she was not born
also gathered in Houston. Over the past three years we have faced many challenges, including a global
in the United States, but that did not impact her directly until she
pandemic, multitudes of changing laws and policies, unprecedented numbers of children arriving in the
reached high school and was rejected from a paid internship because
United States, and the inability to connect in person as we navigated these immense hurdles. At the
of her lack of legal immigration status. She also lost out on many other
same time, our community has been slowly recovering and regaining some of the rights and protections
opportunities, including employment and college scholarships. It was
lost under the Trump Administration.
a long, complicated road before Cindy and her mother were eventually
As we continue to advance in hope and justice toward a more fair and humane system for unaccompanied able to obtain legal status. After first trying to file paperwork on their
children, we are excited to be together in-person once again to support each other as we strive to give own, they quickly realized they needed legal assistance. Fortunately,
the children we serve the best possible assistance and care. We hope this training will provide not only Gladis Molina, who then worked at ProBAR, accepted Cindy’s case
substantive knowledge but will also be a space where you can reconnect with one another, restore your and worked to reopen old removal orders against her and her mother,
energy for forceful advocacy, and inspire you to find new ways to elevate clients’ voices and help them allowing them to proceed with a relative petition and adjustment of
succeed. status.
Over the next several days, you will hear from passionate and dedicated practitioners from numerous fields From the time Cindy was in high school, she knew she wanted
who will share their best practices and strategies for serving unaccompanied children. The 24 training to either go to law school or find another helping profession.
sessions will cover a range of topics from child asylum, Special Immigrant Juvenile cases, and trafficking, Her goal was to assist people who were struggling like she and her
to legal/social service collaborations and policy issues. We are confident that you will find sessions to further family had struggled. After graduating from the University of Texas-
your knowledge in your practice areas and opportunities to learn about topics that may be new to you. Pan American with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science,
she applied to work at ProBAR and was hired as a paralegal. She
We hope you will also spend time with old friends and make new ones! remembers her first two years at ProBAR as a time when she was
We learned over the last three years to be innovative and persistent, navigate virtual meetings and hearings, excited and eager to learn, working long hours to absorb as much
and conduct our work electronically. We have continued to successfully advocate for and represent as she could. Cindy was promoted several times and, in 2018, she
unaccompanied children who need our help more than ever before. We hope to build on this hard-won decided to return to school to study for a Master’s degree in social
knowledge and provide renewed connection and inspiration as you continue to make a difference in the work. Cindy studied in the evenings while working full time at ProBAR
lives of these children and youth. and completed hundreds of internship hours at night and on the
weekend. She graduated in 2020.
We are honored to be part of this amazing community of advocates, and we look forward to learning Over the past ten years, Cindy has developed special expertise
from you and working with you this week and beyond. in working with tender-age children and pregnant and parenting
teens. Cindy has trained and mentored paralegals and attorneys
on services for those populations. In September 2022, Cindy was
promoted to director of ProBAR’s Shelter Services Department, where
she oversees more than 90 staff members who last year served over
24,000 unaccompanied children in 23 different ORR shelters.
Cindy is passionate about ProBAR’s mission and, as someone
who once received critical legal services to navigate the complexities
of the immigration system, she brings a unique perspective to
this work. According to Cindy, ProBAR’s legal services opened
Meredith Linsky Maria Odom opportunities she otherwise would not have access to in this country.
Director, Senior Vice President,
ABA Commission Legal Programs,
Cindy continues to make a difference by leading her team
on Immigration KIND in the provision of high-quality services to immigrant children.
When she is not working, Cindy enjoys spending time with her
family and friends. She also attends church regularly for her spiritual
growth, which is a key component of her life. Cindy also enjoys
watching KDramas and hopes to someday learn Korean.
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Meredith Linsky Maria Odom Holly O’Grady Cook Alda P. Dobbs Javier Zamora
Director, Senior Vice President, Senior Associate Executive Author Author
ABA Commission Legal Programs, Director, American Bar
on Immigration KIND Association
Meredith Linsky is the Director of the Maria M. Odom is the Senior Vice Holly O’Grady Cook is a Senior Alda P. Dobbs is the author of the Javier Zamora was born in El
ABA Commission on Immigration President for Legal Programs at Kids in Associate Executive Director at historical novels Barefoot Dreams Salvador in 1990. His father fled
in Washington, DC. She was Need of Defense (KIND), where she the American Bar Association of Petra Luna and its followup, The the country when he was a year
formerly the Director of ProBAR, leads a team of over 300 immigration responsible for managing the ABA’s Other Side of the River (September old, and his mother when he was
the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum professionals who provide high-quality Governmental Affairs Office that 2022). Her debut novel received a about to turn five. Both parents’
Representation Project, located legal services to unaccompanied migrant serves as the focal point for the Pura Belpre Honor and is a Texas migrations were caused by the
in Harlingen, Texas, from 2000 to and children in the U.S. and northern Association’s advocacy efforts Bluebonnet Master List selection. U.S.-funded Salvadoran Civil War.
2014, where she supervised staff Mexico. With an impressive global before Congress, the Executive Alda was born in a small town in When he was nine Javier migrated
and mentored volunteers working network of pro bono partners, KIND’s Branch, and other government northern Mexico but moved to through Guatemala, Mexico, and
on behalf of detained immigrants Legal Programs team represents over agencies on diverse issues of San Antonio, Texas as a child. She the Sonoran Desert. His debut
and asylum-seekers. Previously, she
6,000 children before the U.S. importance to the legal profession. studied physics and worked as an poetry collection, Unaccompanied,
worked as a Research and Writing
immigration courts, federal agencies, and She also oversees the ABA’s Center engineer before pursuing her love explores the impact of the war and
Attorney at the Office of the Federal
state courts. Ms. Odom also oversees for Public Interest Law, which of storytelling. She’s as passionate immigration on his family. Zamora
Defender in the Eastern District of
KIND's Social Services team which includes the ABA’s Commission on about connecting children to their has been a Stegner Fellow at
California. In 2012, the American Immigration. past, their communities, different Stanford and a Radcliffe Fellow at
provides vital psycho-social supports to
Immigration Lawyers Association cultures and nature as she is about Harvard and holds fellowships from
KIND’s child clients. Holly is a retired Army JAG officer
awarded Ms. Linsky with the Arthur writing. Alda lives with her husband the National Endowment for the Arts
C. Helton Human Rights Award for Odom previously served as the DHS who served almost 23 years on
and two children outside Houston, and the Poetry Foundation.
her outstanding service in advancing Citizenship and Immigration Services active duty with diverse leadership
Texas.
the cause of human rights. In 2013, Ombudsman. In that role, she worked assignments in Iraq, Bosnia, Korea,
the State Bar of Texas honored her with stakeholders to improve the quality Germany, and the United States.
with the J. Chrys Dougherty Legal of citizenship and immigration services After retiring, Holly also served on
Services Award. delivered to the public by U.S. a congressionally-directed panel
Citizenship and Immigration Services analyzing the investigation and
(USCIS). prosecution of crimes involving adult
sexual assault and related offenses
Odom previously led the country’s largest in the military.
network of charitable legal immigration
programs as Executive Director of the
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
(CLINIC). For a decade, she practiced
immigration law in the southeast, leading
a successful private practice in the areas
of removal defense and family-based
immigration. Early in her career, Odom
served as Assistant District Counsel for
the legacy Immigration and
Naturalization Service.
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Final Remarks Final Remarks
Timothy Tyler Dalia Castillo-Granados Yasmin Yavar "Emanuel"
Counsel, International Director, Deputy Director, Client
Dispute Resolution & CILA CILA
Arbitration, Vinson & Elkins
Tim practices international Dalia Castillo-Granados is Yasmin Yavar is the Deputy Client of first KIND then CILA
commercial arbitration, the director of the Children’s Director with the ABA’s who will speak about his
investor-state arbitration under Immigration Law Academy Children’s Immigration Law experiences navigating the
treaties and state contracts, (CILA), a project of the Academy. She is a 2004 immigration process and
and associated U.S. litigation. American Bar Association graduate of the University working with his legal team.
He represents clients in many Commission on Immigration. of Texas School of Law,
industries (most frequently Prior to working at CILA, Dalia where she fell in love with
in the energy value chain, was a senior attorney at Kids immigration law through
including renewables), drafts in Need of Defense, a staff Barbara Hines’ immigration
international dispute-resolution attorney at Tahirih Justice clinic and a brief summer
clauses and procedures, and Center, a clinical supervising internship at ProBAR. She
counsels clients on how to attorney at the University of began her legal career as a
structure investment holdings Houston’s Immigration Clinic, commercial litigator at the
into emerging markets to and a Greenberg Traurig, LLP Houston office of Mayer,
maximize investment-treaty Equal Justice Works fellow Brown, Rowe & Maw. After
protection. at Catholic Charities’ Cabrini three years, Yasmin relocated
Center. Throughout her to Harlingen, Texas for a
Tim has been involved in
career, Dalia has represented year to work for the South
arbitrations under all major
hundreds of children in their Texas Pro Bono Asylum
rules, in the major seats,
immigration proceedings and Representation Project
under numerous applicable
before Texas state courts. In (ProBAR) and learn the
laws. He has advised on, or
her free time, Dalia is active ropes of removal defense
been counsel in, investors-
in her community. She is for detained adults. She
state cases under tens of
currently on the boards of returned to Houston and was
bilateral investment treaties
the Houston Association the first employee of Kids in
or free-trade agreements. As
of Women Attorneys, the Need of Defense’s Houston
an Adjunct Professor at The
Houston Immigration Legal office, serving as the pro bono
University of Texas School
Services Collaborative, the coordinator. Immediately prior
of Law, Tim has taught
Houston Lawyer Referral to working at CILA, Yasmin
international commercial
Service, and the Galveston- worked as a consultant for
arbitration since 2005 and
Houston Immigration ProBAR’s Children’s Project.
investor-state arbitration since
Representation Project.
2010.
Migrants in Mexico.
Photo by Brett Gundlock
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Hotel ZaZa Houston Floor Plan Houston Zoo
Directions
A Hotel ZaZa to Houston Zoo
19 min | 0.7 miles
Hotel ZaZa
5701 Main St, Houston, TX 77005
Head southwest on Main St. Go for 190 ft.
Then 0.04 miles
Walk left around the roundabout and turn
FISHBOWL
the 2nd street Hermann Park Dr. Go for 0.2 mi.
1st floor BUSINESS Then 0.16 miles
CENTER
Walk left around the roundabout and turn at
the 2nd street. Go for 456 ft.
Then 0.09 miles
DÉJÀ VU HEMINGWAY B
Turn left. Go for 46 ft.
Then 0.01 miles
PIANO MAN PHANTOM PHANTOM
PRE-FUNCTION PRE-FUNCTION Turn right. Go for 0.2 mi.
BALLROOM
LOUNGE LOUNGE Then 0.19 miles
Turn left. Go for 476 ft.
STAGE MONARCH Then 0.09 miles
BISTRO &
LOUNGE Turn right. Go for 0.1 mi.
NAPOLEON
Then 0.10 miles
FOUNTAIN Turn left. Go for 197 ft.
MONARCH
TERRACE ULTIMATE ROOM Then 0.04 miles
RANSOM
Turn right onto Zoo Circle Dr. Go for 59 ft.
Then 0.01 miles
Houston Zoo
6200 Zoo Circle Dr, Houston, TX 77030
Breakout Rooms Plenary Stage
From the main entrace, reference the
path on the map for the easiest route
to the HBE Lone Star Pavilion.
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webpage and submit feedback
Wednesday, March 1 | DAY ONE for each panel that you attend! Thursday, March 2 | DAY TWO
1:00 - 2:00 Registration and check-in 8:00 - 9:00 BREAKFAST
2:00 - 3:20 Welcome Remarks Meredith Linsky, Director, ABA Commission on Immigration 9:00 - 10:15 PANELS
Plenary Speaker Holly O'Grady Cook, Senior Associate Executive Director, ABA
Presentation Of Community Award Maria Odom, Senior Vice President, KIND 5. Understanding and Averting the Scott Bassett, Senior Attorney, CAIR Coalition
to Cindy Bernal by Gladis Molina Alda P Dobbs, Author Harms of Significant Incident Reports Azadeh Erfani, Senior Attorney, NIJC
(SIRs) Cynthia Felix, Managing Attorney, Immigrant
3:20 - 3:30 BREAK OPTION #1 Defenders Law Center (ImmDef)
Jane Liu, Senior Litigation Attorney, Young Center
3:30 - 5:00 PANELS Advocacy, Policy and Litigation Updates for Immigrant Children's Rights
Marie Silver, Managing Attorney, NIJC
1. Need a Child Advocate? Giving Elissa Steglich, Co-director and Instructor at the
FOUNTAIN ROOM
Meaning to Interdisciplinary Best Immigration Clinic, University of Texas School of Law 75 minutes
Interests Advocacy (Moderator)
OPTION #1 Jena Gutierrez, Managing Attorney, Young Center 6. Post-18 SIJS Best Practices and Erika E. Vera Livas, Esq. Supervising Attorney,
Raia Stoicheva, Managing Attorney, Young Center Discussion The Door
Interdisciplinary Services OPTION #2 Mariah Ferraz, Supervising Attorney, NWIRP
Tami Benchoam Rogers, LMSW, Young Center
Michele Suarez, Supervising Attorney, NWIRP
FOUNTAIN ROOM Tania Torres, LMSW, Young Center Developments in Substantive Law or Practice Anna Rae Goethe, Managing Attorney, ImmDef
75 minutes
Daniel Gestal, Senior Attorney, CAIR Coalition
2. Representing Children Seeking Andrea Mangones, Director of Legal Training, KIND Hillary Richardson, Managing Attorney, NIJC
ULTIMATE RANSOM
Asylum: Strategies for Success Laura Egan, Managing Attorney, Children’s Immigration 60 minutes
OPTION #2 Law Academy (CILA)
7. Pregnant and Parenting Youth: Melody Koch, Staff Attorney, Young Center
Karen Baker, Legal Associate, U.S. Protection, UNHCR
Developments in Substantive Law or Practice
Elevating their voice while Juliana Pinto McKeen, LMSW Social Worker, Child
advocating for best interests Advocate Supervisor, Young Center
ULTIMATE RANSOM OPTION #3
90 minutes
Interdisciplinary Services
3. Successful Strategies Using Cindy Liou, State and Local Policy Director, KIND
State Authority to Protect (Facilitator) DÉJÀ VU
Unaccompanied Children 60 minutes
Amanda Pennington, Director of Client Services,
OPTION #3 Office of Colorado’s Child Protection Ombudsman 8. Working with LGBTQIA children Ana Moraga Archila, Supervising Attorney, KIND
Daniel Jeon, Assistant Attorney General, Washington from Central America as a Central
Advocacy, Policy and Litigation Updates
State Attorney General’s Office’s Civil Rights Division American LGBTQIA Lawyer
HEMINGWAY OPTION #4
90 minutes
Service Delivery Innovations
4. The View: Four Ethical Perspectives Dalia Castillo-Granados, Co-founder and Director,
OPTION #4 CILA HEMINGWAY ROOM
60 minutes
Vickie Giambra, Managing Attorney, CILA
Developments in Substantive Law or practice
Elizabeth (Chiqui) Sanchez Kennedy, Executive 10:15 - 10:30 BREAK
DÉJÀ VU Director, Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation
75 minutes Project (GHIRP)
Marisa Peterson, Staff Attorney, KIND
5:00 - 7:00 RECEPTION AND PERFORMANCE BY
MARIACHI LOS PASAJEROS
By The Pool At Hotel ZaZa
7:15 - 10:00 DINNER ON OWN
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Thursday, March 2 | DAY TWO Thursday, March 2 | DAY TWO
10:30 - 12:00 PANELS 2:15 - 3:45 PANELS
9. Reducing ORR’s Reliance on Large Jennifer Podkul, Vice President, Policy and 13. USCIS Policy Updates Relating to Margot Dankner, Policy Analyst, Office of Policy
Scale Congregate Care Settings: Advocacy, KIND Unaccompanied Children & Strategy, USCIS
A Discussion with Experts in State Scott Hollander, Executive Director, KidsVoice OPTION #1 Carly Salazar, Policy Analyst, Office of Policy
Child Welfare Systems, and Children’s Neha Desai, Senior Director of Immigration, National & Strategy, USCIS
Immigration Law and Policy Developments in Substantive Law or Practice
Center for Youth Law
OPTION #1 ULTIMATE RANSOM
60 minutes
Advocacy, Policy and Litigation Updates
14. Breaking the Silence and Creating Alysa Medina, Staff Attorney, RAICES
HEMINGWAY Trust: A Holistic Trauma-Informed Nancy Tangarife, Senior Legal Assistant, RAICES
60 minutes
Approach to Identifying and Helping Jessica Howton, Managing Attorney, Tahirih
10. My Client Was Mistreated in CBP Carly Sessions, Senior Attorney, KIND Child Survivors Navigate the U and Justice Center
Detention: Strategies for Pursuing T visa Process Sarah Bryan, Managing Attorney, RAICES
Esther Araya, Staff Attorney, KIND
OPTION #2 Yanira Peraza, STEP Supervisor, Refugee
Accountability Carson Scott, Staff Attorney, ImmDef
OPTION #2 Services of Texas
Yesenia Ramales, Senior Legal Assistant, FIRRP Interdisciplinary Services
Sarah K Howell, LCSW-S, Founder of STAR
Advocacy, Policy and Litigation Updates FOUNTAIN ROOM Counseling and Consultation
60 minutes
DÉJÀ VU
75 minutes 15. Know Your Audience! Highlighting Rebekah Fletcher, Director of Legal Training,
Best Practices in the KYR Setting KIND (Facilitator)
11. Effective Response to Self- Harm Andres Cervantes, Senior UC Specialist, ProBAR
OPTION #3 Matthew Brill-Carlat, Paralegal, KIND
And Suicidal Ideations Lilia Garcia, LMSW, ProBAR
Luis Enrique Jacquez, Social Service
OPTION #3 Noe Flores, Shelter Services Coordinator, ProBAR Interdisciplinary Services
Coordinator, KIND
Rapid Response Efforts Jonathan Barrales, Program Director, ImmDef
HEMINGWAY
90 minutes Natalia Eisenstadt, Legal Assistant, Detained
FOUNTAIN ROOM Children’s Program, CAIR Coalition
60 minutes
16. Building Legal-Educational Dr. Sara-Jean (“SJ”) Lipmen, Newcomer
12. Teaming up for Success in Asylum Sonia Suire, Supervising Attorney, RAICES Partnerships: Two California Case Instructional Coach, Los Angeles Unified
Merits Hearings (Moderator) Studies School District (LAUSD) and Professor, Rossier
OPTION #4 Hannah Eash-Gates, Staff Attorney, RAICES OPTION #4 School of Education, USC
Zachary Bleckner, Staff Attorney, RAICES Hannah Feldman, LAUSD Kinship Attorney,
Developments in Substantive Law or Practice Interdisciplinary Services Bet Tzedek Legal Services
Monica Pepping, Legal Assistant, RAICES
ULTIMATE RANSOM Karla Ruiz, Legal Assistant, RAICES Katie Annand, Managing Attorney, Immigrant
DÉJÀ VU
75 minutes 60 minutes Legal Defense
Lesly Mendoza, Staff Attorney, Bet Tzedek
12:00 - 2:00 LUNCH AND CONVERSATION Legal Services
WITH JAVIER ZAMORA Nathaniel Dunstan, Program Manager,
Optional Book Signing Newcomer and Refugee/Asylee Services,
Oakland Unified School District
2:00 - 2:15 BREAK
3:45 - 4:00 BREAK
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Thursday, March 2 | DAY TWO Friday, March 3 | DAY THREE
4:00 - 5:30 PANELS 8:00 - 9:00 BREAKFAST
9:00 - 10:30 PANELS
17. Case Assessment Workshop: Joanna Mexicano Furmanska, Staff Attorney, CLINIC
Getting it Right from the Start Marta Garcia-Lascurain, Staff Attorney, CLINIC
OPTION #1 21. Terra Firma: A Model of Holistic, Brett Stark, Esq., Co-Founder and National Network
Interdisciplinary Representation Director, Terra Firma National
Interdisciplinary Services of UC Josephine Herman, Staff Attorney, New Jersey
OPTION #1 Consortium for Immigrant Children
HEMINGWAY
90 minutes Eric Hassell, Coordinating Immigration Attorney, New
Interdisciplinary Services
York Legal Assistance Group’s Legal Health Unit
18. Building a Coalition to Advocate Geovanny, Youth Leader
with and for SIJS Youth Maria, Youth Leader ULTIMATE RANSOM
90 minutes
OPTION #2 Rachel Davidson, Lead Organizer, End SIJS Backlog
Coalition 22. Resources and Models for Serving Karen Noemi Coronado Martinez, Supervising UC
Interdisciplinary Services Dalia Castillo-Granados, Co-founder and Director, Unaccompanied Immigrant Children Specialist, ProBAR
CILA with Disabilities Michelangelo Fleury, Shelter Services Coordinator,
DÉJÀ VU
75 minutes OPTION #2 ProBAR
Anne Kelsey, Esq, Policy Analyst for Disability Rights,
19. Finding Home: Best Practices for Estrellita Alvarado, Safe Repatriation Manager, Service Delivery Innovations
Young Center
Safe Repatriation Advocacy Young Center
OPTION #3 Pam Nickell, Deputy Program Director, Young Center DÉJÀ VU Laura Zelaya, LMSW, Social Worker, Young Center
90 minutes Lauren Wert, Senior Attorney, KIND
Interdisciplinary Services Corie O’Rourke, Managing Attorney, Ayuda
ULTIMATE RANSOM 23. Hearts in Two Worlds: Representing Maria Acosta, Senior Attorney, KIND
75 minutes
Unaccompanied Afghan Minors (UAMs) Reta Arbusto, Staff Attorney, KIND
20. Tips & Tricks on Managing Tender Alondra Flores, UC Specialist, ProBAR OPTION #3 Cruz Espitia, Staff Attorney, KIND
Age and Teen Populations with Unique Biridiana Ballesteros, Senior UC Specialist, ProBAR Mary Giovagnoli, Senior Counsel,
and Challenging Situations Xochilth Roman, Senior UC Specialist, ProBAR Interdisciplinary Services Policy and Advocacy, KIND
OPTION #4
FOUNTAIN
75 minutes
Service Delivery Innovations
FOUNTAIN
24. Building & Implementing New Scott Bassett, Senior Attorney, CAIR Coalition
75 minutes Protections for Detained Immigrant Marie Silver, Managing Attorney, NIJC
Children: Updates from Lucas R. Mishan Wroe, Senior Attorney, National Center
5:30 - 6:30 BREAK Counsel and Lessons Learned from for Youth Law
Practitioners in the Field
6:30 DINNER AT HOUSTON ZOO OPTION #4
Advocacy, Policy and Litigation Updates
HEMINGWAY
75 minutes
10:30 - 10:45 BREAK
10:45 - 11:45 Remarks by Timothy Tyler, Dalia
Castillo-Granados, Yasmin Yavar,
and their former client “Emanuel.”
11:45 - 12:00 BREAK
12:00 - 12:30 Farewell Remarks
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Seeking Safety,
Creating Change
This collection of drawings, paintings,
and prints by children served by Kids
in Need of Defense (KIND) offers insight
into their personal migration journeys
towards freedom from fear. Each
work reveals the multi-faceted emotions
and challenging experiences they have
faced. Feelings of terror, despair, and Domingo Pablo Robin Yon
loneliness are juxtaposed with positivity, You & I Together Raices del Pasado Mas Alla de la Creatividad
togetherness, and hope. The exhibit also Colored pencil on paper (Roots from the Past) (Beyond Creativity)
features pieces focused on self-reflection
and cultural identity. Overall, the exhibition Mixed media on Mixed media on paper
invites the viewer to reflect on each child’s canvas
unique migration experience and the
responsibility each one of us has in seeing,
hearing, and protecting children on the
move alone.
The collection is traveling nationally to
promote understanding of unaccompanied
children and their inspiring contributions to
our communities. Please contact
comms@supportkind.org to learn more.
Oliver Domingo Pablo Robin
Untitled Right of a Child Tiempo, Realidad, e Imaginación
Domingo Pablo Archival pigment Archival pigment (Time, Reality, and Imagination)
Nationality print on paper print on paper Mixed media on canvas
Screen print on paper
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