Esperanza Center Family Reunification Services
Esperanza Center Family Reunification Services
The Esperanza Center Family Reunification Program helps to reunite recently arrived unaccompanied youth with their family members and sponsors. Services include: fingerprinting and assistance with the family reunification packet; home studies to determine safety and security in the home environment; and, post-release services to insure the well-being of minors, and assist the families with the often challenging process of getting reacquainted and living with family members from whom they been separated for some time. Over the past year, in partnership with and funding from Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS), Esperanza family reunification staff have helped 932 unaccompanied children reunite with their family member/sponsors and provided them with valuable support services and referrals for much-needed immigration legal services, health care, mental health services, and enrollment in school, among others.
Since the start of the Family Reunification Program at Esperanza in the summer of 2013, the Esperanza Center has helped reunite over 2,700 unaccompanied children with their sponsor families.
Our Family Reunification Services are made possible with funding from the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS). Click here to learn more about the work that LIRS does.