

Meaningful Ties reflects the ongoing work of the Southern Arizona Transnational Task Force founded ten years ago by Laurie Melrood, a dedicated social worker in Tucson, AZ.
The Southern Arizona Transnational Task Force brings together stakeholders in child welfare and immigration to improve due process for transnational families navigating both systems. This includes judges, commissioners, attorneys for children, attorneys for parents, Assistant Arizona Attorneys General, immigration attorneys, DCS case investigators, DCS caseworkers, Consular officials from the Mexican, Honduran, Guatemalan and Salvadoran consulates, social workers, amongst others who work to improve due process for transnational families.

The unified goal is to initiate and improve communications and to develop a tool kit to provide judges, attorneys and DCS caseworkers in Arizona detailed information on how best to address child welfare cases that involve a transnational family – whether the family was in Arizona or split by an international border. It is our hope that this document will serve not only those in Arizona but will inform and assist child welfare participants in other states to benefit children and families.
Meaningful Ties - Tool Kit (pdf)
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