HOW WE HELP CHILDREN THAT CROSS THE BORDER TO COME TO THE USA
- Fill out the family reunification package. Become the Potential Adult if the sponsor can not continue to take care of the child.
- Making sure they have a connection with their love ones while they are in the shelters.
- Help the sponsor get together all the requirements, such as proof of address, income verification, school pre-registration, and fingerprints.
- Take the sponsor to pick up the child from the airport
- Take the child to the doctor for a physical and a immunization record
- Register the child in school
- Register the child for the bus transportation
- Become the School Advocate for some of the children
- Attend every possible meeting in school with the parent
- Pick up the child from school in case of emergency
- Translate for the parents any time they need me to
List of Services
- Do the application on line
- Get all the requirements ready for the appointment
- Take the applicant to the appointment of verification
- Repeat this process every six months
- Once a month I take the mothers to pick up their benefits because they don’t own a car
- The motor vehicles in Florida does not supply people with Spanish interpreter. I go to all the appointments with them and translate for them
- Gather all the requirements together. Fill out the application. Take them to the appointment. Be their interpreter.
- Print out documents that are sent from their countries
- Take them to the appointments
- Take them to these appointments
- Process referrals and insurance authorization
- Help find a job
- Fill out the application
- Bring them to their job interview
- Look for an apartment for rent
- Fill out the rental application
- We go to the court hearings
- We find lawyers for them
- We find bonds for them
- Find places to do community hours
- For DUI We help them with the whole process
- Take them to the health department and apply for vouchers so they can be treated by the special doctor
- I also take them to the emergency room and stay with them throughout the whole process.
- Take them back home.
- Apply for emergency Medicaid
- I am the school advocate of many children, I always accompany the parents to the meetings.
- Help them understand the system
- Help them get Pro Bono Lawyers
- Take them to every single court hearing
- Help them gather all the papers together from their countries
- Fill out applications such as political asylum, visa U, juvenile visas and more
- After school clubs and sports
- Tutoring
- Take small group of children to the library with their parents and teach them how to access the library activities for kids
- The ones that do not have a car I take them to the library on a regular basis.
- Go with the mothers to the food pantries so they can get a little extra help
- Help the parents celebrate the birthday of the little love ones especially the ones that are suffering from some kind of disease
- Encourage the parents enroll their children on Prepaid College education for the future so they can become better citizens in the United States of America
- We assist the parents to register for a GED and ESOL programs.