Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights
Estrellita Alvarado Hernandez is an experienced professional who currently serves as a Safe Repatriation Manager at the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights. With a background in social work and psychology, Estrellita previously worked as a Bilingual Clinician at Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development, Casa de Sueños, where Estrellita provided mental health assessments and counseling to unaccompanied refugee and migrant youth. Estrellita holds a Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University and Bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Human Development and Family Studies from Arizona State University.
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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights
The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights is a non-profit organization whose mission is to advocate for the rights of unaccompanied immigrant children. Guided by the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and state and federal child protection laws, the Young Center has developed the only program in the nation that provides guardians ad litem (Child Advocates) for trafficking victims and unaccompanied immigrant children. Our work serving individual children drives our policy work. Through our work as Child Advocates (guardians ad litem), we promote change by advocating for the best interests of individual immigrant children, thereby educating stakeholders about the importance of considering the ‘Respondent’ as a child. Child Advocates are bilingual and often bicultural volunteers who are trained and supervised by attorneys with experience in children’s rights and immigration law. In every case assigned a Child Advocate, the Young Center provides the child’s attorney (if they are represented) and the decision-maker with a report about the best interests of that individual child.