Foster Care Training

Online Training

Shira Levine, Staff Attorney at Immigration Institute of the Bay Area, and Angela Yahaira Brening, Workers’ Rights Skadden Fellow and Attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza will present on immigrant and immigrant rights. The focus of the training will be on enabling people to navigate their rights and protect their families during the COVID 19 pandemic. The pandemic has upended employment and social supports for many. Vulnerable communities, such as the immigrant community in Alameda County, has been especially hard hit by job and housing insecurity as well as continued concerns about how to obtain and retain lawful immigration status and prevent deportations.

This training will address relevant immigration, housing, and workers’ rights information, with particular attention on matters pertaining to our current pandemic. Topics covered include: potential paths for people to obtain lawful status and protect themselves and their families from immigration enforcement; the new public charge regulations and how they intersect with Covid 19 healthcare needs; wage and hour and antidiscrimination rights in the workplace; possible sources of income replacement for individuals with and without established immigration status, means to pursue lawful immigration status and the impact of current public charge rules, with a focus on how Covid 19 may be interpreted, defending from immigration enforcement, and the evictions moratoriums for tenants’ rights.