AGENCY TESTIMONY
Action NYC in Schools program for unaccompanied immigrant youth
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Tom Tortorici details the redeployment of the Action NYC in Schools program to prioritize immigration legal screenings and assistance for unaccompanied immigrant youth aged 18-20 at runaway and homeless youth sites. The program aims to prevent youth from aging out of eligibility for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status.
- From June to August 2024, the program completed over 170 immigration legal screenings for RHY clients aged 18-20
- 84 cases were accepted or referred for legal representation
- 6 emergency age-out petitions were filed in family court
- The program also provided immigration legal orientations and best practices for prescreening to RHY case managers
Tom Tortorici
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Finally, this year, Moyer redeployed capacity for the Action NYC And Schools program run by Catholic Charity's Community Services to prioritize immigration legal screenings and assistance for unaccompanied them bring youth age eighteen to twenty at runaway and homeless youth sites to ensure they were not age out of eligibility for form of immigration relief known as special injury juvenile status.
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In the 3 month period from June to August 2024, the action NYCN schools team worked with RHI case managers to complete more than 170 immigration legal screenings for RHI clients aged eighteen to 20.
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They accepted or referred 84 cases for legal representation and filed 6 emergency age out petitions and family court.
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All of these screen were provided with an eligibility determination and brief advice and counsel regarding what would be needed to proceed, such as how to identify a trustworthy guardian.
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The legal team also provided RHI case managers with immigration legal orientations and best practices for prescreening.
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These numbers are preliminary as we await final fiscal 25 Q1 data from that program.
