As immigrant communities grapple with more of their members being detained, community defenders are increasingly called upon to conduct intakes and triage cases, as well as provide critical legal information to those detained. Join the National Immigration Project on October 10 for a community defender skills intensive designed to hone participants’ abilities to interview in difficult circumstances, identify legal issues, and inform people of their rights and the resources available to them. Using the framework of the intake interview, we will cover: why certain intake questions are critical; how to identify cases for potential legal assistance; detained immigrants’ rights; and recent developments in immigration law and policy that affect detention and enforcement.

This training is reserved for National Immigration Project members, past participants from our Removal Defense for Community Defenders course, participants from our Southeast, Midwest, or Rockies rapid response hubs, and other close partners. Due to a limited number of spots available, we ask that you complete this registration request form to tell us which group you are a part of and that no more than two people sign up from each organization.

We will review registration requests on a rolling basis.

There will be Spanish simultaneous interpretation during this training.

Questions? Please contact events@nipnlg.org.