Children Thrive Action Network
@letkidsthrive.bsky.social
A network of advocates & service providers at the national, state, & local levels who work directly with or on behalf of children in immigrant families.
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Manteniéndonos Íntegros y Unidos: Una Carta de Amor y Guía de Apoyo Para Familias Inmigrantes - Children Thrive Action Network
Los recientes ataques del gobierno federal han dejado un impacto duradero en las familias y comunidades inmigrantes. Durante estos tiempos difíciles, reconocemos el impacto mental que están enfrentand...
childrenthriveaction.org
CTAN is honored to collaborate with @justiceleaders.bsky.social, National Parents Union, and compassionate partners to share a Love Letter to Immigrant Families. Please share widely to let immigrant parents know they are seen, heard, & cared for!
childrenthriveaction.org/2025/10/stay...
childrenthriveaction.org/2025/10/stay...
Join us for a powerful discussion on the negative impact policy wars are having on families and communities.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Join us for a powerful discussion on the negative impact policy wars are having on families and communities.
Register Here: tinyurl.com/mr2vynr9
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[1] A new proposed rule would allow DHS to deny people green cards based on their past or potential use of federal health or social service programs. childrenthriveaction.org/2025/11/prop...
Proposed “Public Charge” Rule is a Direct Attack on Children in Immigrant Families - Children Thrive Action Network
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS: Melissa Stek, Communications Consultant, [email protected] Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, [email protected] Washington, D.C., November 19, 2025—T...
childrenthriveaction.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
[1] A new proposed rule would allow DHS to deny people green cards based on their past or potential use of federal health or social service programs. childrenthriveaction.org/2025/11/prop...
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Yesterday, Homeland Security proposed to repeal the 2022 public charge rule. This would allow officers to arbitrarily deny green cards to immigrants based on their health, economic situation, or potential use of benefits like health care & food assistance. Learn more:
www.clasp.org/press-room/p...
www.clasp.org/press-room/p...
Public Charge Proposal Threatens the Health and Well-being of Immigrant Families and All Communities | CLASP
CLASP is committed to ensuring that all families are able to meet their basic needs, and we will work alongside our partners to defeat this reckless public charge proposal as we did under the first Tr...
www.clasp.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Yesterday, Homeland Security proposed to repeal the 2022 public charge rule. This would allow officers to arbitrarily deny green cards to immigrants based on their health, economic situation, or potential use of benefits like health care & food assistance. Learn more:
www.clasp.org/press-room/p...
www.clasp.org/press-room/p...
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Read our statement: www.nilc.org/press/nilc-s...
NILC Statement on Trump’s New Attempt to Resurrect Harmful “Public Charge” Wealth Test
www.nilc.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Read our statement: www.nilc.org/press/nilc-s...
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The Trump admin is planning to reinstate an outdated public charge wealth test—another attack designed to sow fear & confusion in our communities.
At a time when too many families are going hungry, this effort only further privileges the rich & puts at risk our collective health and well-being.
At a time when too many families are going hungry, this effort only further privileges the rich & puts at risk our collective health and well-being.
November 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The Trump admin is planning to reinstate an outdated public charge wealth test—another attack designed to sow fear & confusion in our communities.
At a time when too many families are going hungry, this effort only further privileges the rich & puts at risk our collective health and well-being.
At a time when too many families are going hungry, this effort only further privileges the rich & puts at risk our collective health and well-being.
🚨Webinar Alert 🚨
Students & educators around the country are responding to widespread ICE abductions & harassment in our communities. Join @neatoday.bsky.social for a webinar on how we can best support student & educator mental health and ensure they are respected, protected, & supported.
Students & educators around the country are responding to widespread ICE abductions & harassment in our communities. Join @neatoday.bsky.social for a webinar on how we can best support student & educator mental health and ensure they are respected, protected, & supported.
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
🚨Webinar Alert 🚨
Students & educators around the country are responding to widespread ICE abductions & harassment in our communities. Join @neatoday.bsky.social for a webinar on how we can best support student & educator mental health and ensure they are respected, protected, & supported.
Students & educators around the country are responding to widespread ICE abductions & harassment in our communities. Join @neatoday.bsky.social for a webinar on how we can best support student & educator mental health and ensure they are respected, protected, & supported.
[1] The deepest health care cuts in U.S. history are now law—slashing $1 trillion from Medicaid, adding
bureaucratic barriers to accessing care, and making it harder for millions to stay insured. The stakes are
high, and the damage will be real.
bureaucratic barriers to accessing care, and making it harder for millions to stay insured. The stakes are
high, and the damage will be real.
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
[1] The deepest health care cuts in U.S. history are now law—slashing $1 trillion from Medicaid, adding
bureaucratic barriers to accessing care, and making it harder for millions to stay insured. The stakes are
high, and the damage will be real.
bureaucratic barriers to accessing care, and making it harder for millions to stay insured. The stakes are
high, and the damage will be real.
This MONDAY: ICE out of Child Care and Schools Emergency Call! Nov. 10th at 8pm ET, join us to hear how we can organize to protect our children and care workers/teachers! 👉: bit.ly/ice-OUT
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This MONDAY: ICE out of Child Care and Schools Emergency Call! Nov. 10th at 8pm ET, join us to hear how we can organize to protect our children and care workers/teachers! 👉: bit.ly/ice-OUT
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This is NOT okay and flies in the face of decades of shared belief that places that care for children should be safe havens: Child care worker detained by #ICE inside a Chicago day care as children watched 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil... via @19thnews.org
Child care worker detained by ICE inside a Chicago day care as children watched
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
19thnews.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This is NOT okay and flies in the face of decades of shared belief that places that care for children should be safe havens: Child care worker detained by #ICE inside a Chicago day care as children watched 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil... via @19thnews.org
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1 in 5 working people in America are immigrants. They're our neighbors, our community members, the people who we trust and memories with.
These attacks hurt ALL of us
These attacks hurt ALL of us
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
1 in 5 working people in America are immigrants. They're our neighbors, our community members, the people who we trust and memories with.
These attacks hurt ALL of us
These attacks hurt ALL of us
[1] A new opinion piece by a retired immigration judge and the managing partner of an immigration law firm discusses the harm that children in immigrant families are experiencing as a result of increased immigration enforcement and family separation.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/o...
Trump is traumatizing immigrant children and families - The Boston Globe
The tearing apart of families is certainly something this country should not stand for.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
[1] A new opinion piece by a retired immigration judge and the managing partner of an immigration law firm discusses the harm that children in immigrant families are experiencing as a result of increased immigration enforcement and family separation.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/o...
[1] This morning, federal agents entered a learning center without a warrant and detained a Pre-K teacher in front of the children she cares for. In a video, the woman can be seen telling the agents that she has documentation.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
[1] This morning, federal agents entered a learning center without a warrant and detained a Pre-K teacher in front of the children she cares for. In a video, the woman can be seen telling the agents that she has documentation.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
🚨NEW RESOURCE🚨
ALL IN for Safe Schools’ new safe spaces one-pager gives providers clear steps to protect children and families during immigration enforcement encounters.
📄 Download now: tinyurl.com/ALLINSafeSpace
#SafeECE #AllInForSafeSchools #ChildHealthEquity
ALL IN for Safe Schools’ new safe spaces one-pager gives providers clear steps to protect children and families during immigration enforcement encounters.
📄 Download now: tinyurl.com/ALLINSafeSpace
#SafeECE #AllInForSafeSchools #ChildHealthEquity
November 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
🚨NEW RESOURCE🚨
ALL IN for Safe Schools’ new safe spaces one-pager gives providers clear steps to protect children and families during immigration enforcement encounters.
📄 Download now: tinyurl.com/ALLINSafeSpace
#SafeECE #AllInForSafeSchools #ChildHealthEquity
ALL IN for Safe Schools’ new safe spaces one-pager gives providers clear steps to protect children and families during immigration enforcement encounters.
📄 Download now: tinyurl.com/ALLINSafeSpace
#SafeECE #AllInForSafeSchools #ChildHealthEquity
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WE, the people, power this country. We work hard for our families and show up for each other with love, tenacity, and commitment to make things better. Fear has never stopped us, and it won't stop us now. Text POWERED to 787-57 to join the movement.
November 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
WE, the people, power this country. We work hard for our families and show up for each other with love, tenacity, and commitment to make things better. Fear has never stopped us, and it won't stop us now. Text POWERED to 787-57 to join the movement.
[1] Congress has yet to pass legislation to fund and reopen the federal government. If they don’t do so by Nov 1, funding for essential programs like Head Start, SNAP, & WIC will lapse.
www.clasp.org/press-room/p...
www.clasp.org/press-room/p...
White House and Congress Manufactured a Crisis that Threatens Jobs, Food Assistance, and Head Start and Will Increase Health Care Costs | CLASP
The stalemate created by the refusal of Congressional leadership and the Trump Administration to come to the table is unnecessarily threatening food assistance, access to Head Start, and other importa...
www.clasp.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:58 PM
[1] Congress has yet to pass legislation to fund and reopen the federal government. If they don’t do so by Nov 1, funding for essential programs like Head Start, SNAP, & WIC will lapse.
www.clasp.org/press-room/p...
www.clasp.org/press-room/p...
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Loan forgivness should NOT be an incentive to join ICE and terrorize our communities. See this new piece from Christian Collins @clasp.org www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Loan Forgiveness Becomes Tool for Authoritarianism (opinion)
The unaffordability of college makes it easier for President Trump to build up ICE and advance an authoritarian agenda.
www.insidehighered.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Loan forgivness should NOT be an incentive to join ICE and terrorize our communities. See this new piece from Christian Collins @clasp.org www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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SNAP benefits will stop on Nov. 1, sending over 5M people in California – including 1.9M children – into potential emergency.
Please use this form created by our partners at NCYL to urge senators and representatives to stop the halt of these benefits: action.youthlaw.org/a/savesnapbe...
Please use this form created by our partners at NCYL to urge senators and representatives to stop the halt of these benefits: action.youthlaw.org/a/savesnapbe...
Save SNAP benefits for children and families
Tell your representative to take action now!
action.youthlaw.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
SNAP benefits will stop on Nov. 1, sending over 5M people in California – including 1.9M children – into potential emergency.
Please use this form created by our partners at NCYL to urge senators and representatives to stop the halt of these benefits: action.youthlaw.org/a/savesnapbe...
Please use this form created by our partners at NCYL to urge senators and representatives to stop the halt of these benefits: action.youthlaw.org/a/savesnapbe...
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Nearly a month into the government shutdown, millions of families are paying the price for deliberate policy choices by the Trump Administration and Congress.
This is a 🚨manufactured🚨 crisis that’s putting jobs, food, and care at risk.
This is a 🚨manufactured🚨 crisis that’s putting jobs, food, and care at risk.
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Nearly a month into the government shutdown, millions of families are paying the price for deliberate policy choices by the Trump Administration and Congress.
This is a 🚨manufactured🚨 crisis that’s putting jobs, food, and care at risk.
This is a 🚨manufactured🚨 crisis that’s putting jobs, food, and care at risk.
New blog post from @americasvoice.bsky.social
amplifies the voices of some of the more than 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents due to mass deportation.
americasvoice.org/blog/the-ame...
amplifies the voices of some of the more than 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents due to mass deportation.
americasvoice.org/blog/the-ame...
The American Children of Mass Deportation: ‘The New Family Separation Crisis’ - America's Voice
One report has identified more than 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents due to mass deportation—and there are likely more out there Last year, a teen named Billy brave...
americasvoice.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
New blog post from @americasvoice.bsky.social
amplifies the voices of some of the more than 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents due to mass deportation.
americasvoice.org/blog/the-ame...
amplifies the voices of some of the more than 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents due to mass deportation.
americasvoice.org/blog/the-ame...
[1] Mel Leonor Barclay at @19thnews.org news reports: Pregnant immigrant mothers face barriers to care during heightened immigration actions and the federal government’s rollback of “protected spaces,” including hospitals and medical centers. 19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...
ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk
Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.
19thnews.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
[1] Mel Leonor Barclay at @19thnews.org news reports: Pregnant immigrant mothers face barriers to care during heightened immigration actions and the federal government’s rollback of “protected spaces,” including hospitals and medical centers. 19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...
CTAN se complace en colaborar con @justiceleaders.bsky.social, National Parents Union y otros colegas en presentar un Carta de Amor para las Familias Inmigrantes. Compartan ampliamente para hacer llegar el mensaje a los padres y madres inmigrantes que ¡les vemos, les escuchamos y nos unimos a ellos!
Manteniéndonos Íntegros y Unidos: Una Carta de Amor y Guía de Apoyo Para Familias Inmigrantes - Children Thrive Action Network
Los recientes ataques del gobierno federal han dejado un impacto duradero en las familias y comunidades inmigrantes. Durante estos tiempos difíciles, reconocemos el impacto mental que están enfrentand...
childrenthriveaction.org
October 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
CTAN se complace en colaborar con @justiceleaders.bsky.social, National Parents Union y otros colegas en presentar un Carta de Amor para las Familias Inmigrantes. Compartan ampliamente para hacer llegar el mensaje a los padres y madres inmigrantes que ¡les vemos, les escuchamos y nos unimos a ellos!
CTAN is honored to collaborate with @justiceleaders.bsky.social, National Parents Union, and compassionate partners to share a Love Letter to Immigrant Families. Please share widely to let immigrant parents know they are seen, heard, & cared for!
childrenthriveaction.org/2025/10/stay...
childrenthriveaction.org/2025/10/stay...
Manteniéndonos Íntegros y Unidos: Una Carta de Amor y Guía de Apoyo Para Familias Inmigrantes - Children Thrive Action Network
Los recientes ataques del gobierno federal han dejado un impacto duradero en las familias y comunidades inmigrantes. Durante estos tiempos difíciles, reconocemos el impacto mental que están enfrentand...
childrenthriveaction.org
October 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
CTAN is honored to collaborate with @justiceleaders.bsky.social, National Parents Union, and compassionate partners to share a Love Letter to Immigrant Families. Please share widely to let immigrant parents know they are seen, heard, & cared for!
childrenthriveaction.org/2025/10/stay...
childrenthriveaction.org/2025/10/stay...
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Schools should be safe places for all students.
But Trump's reversal of a long-standing policy that protected schools from ICE raids has turned schools into spaces of fear & uncertainty.
Visit nilc.org/resources/ to learn more about how students, families, and educators can protect themselves.
But Trump's reversal of a long-standing policy that protected schools from ICE raids has turned schools into spaces of fear & uncertainty.
Visit nilc.org/resources/ to learn more about how students, families, and educators can protect themselves.
October 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Schools should be safe places for all students.
But Trump's reversal of a long-standing policy that protected schools from ICE raids has turned schools into spaces of fear & uncertainty.
Visit nilc.org/resources/ to learn more about how students, families, and educators can protect themselves.
But Trump's reversal of a long-standing policy that protected schools from ICE raids has turned schools into spaces of fear & uncertainty.
Visit nilc.org/resources/ to learn more about how students, families, and educators can protect themselves.
Over the weekend, federal agents were sent to Chicago and raided people's homes, rounded up children, and separated families. This is not how we keep our cities safe. CTAN condemns these actions and calls on Congress to do everything in their power to stop the militarization of our communities NOW.
'Military-Style' ICE Raid In Chicago Shows Escalation in Tactics
Witnesses said children were taken from their homes unclothed and separated from their parents during the raid.
time.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Over the weekend, federal agents were sent to Chicago and raided people's homes, rounded up children, and separated families. This is not how we keep our cities safe. CTAN condemns these actions and calls on Congress to do everything in their power to stop the militarization of our communities NOW.
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Health care workers should be able to focus on saving lives — not preparing for ICE raids.
https://bit.ly/46tIUmD
https://bit.ly/46tIUmD
California nurses decry Ice presence at hospitals: ‘Interfering with patient care’
Caregiving staff say agents are bringing in patients, often denying them visitors and speaking on their behalf to staff
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Health care workers should be able to focus on saving lives — not preparing for ICE raids.
https://bit.ly/46tIUmD
https://bit.ly/46tIUmD