Community Resources
Advocacy off Campus: DC
Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition
CAIR Coalition brings together community groups, pro bono attorneys, volunteers and immigrants from the District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland working to ensure that all immigrants are treated with fairness, dignity and respect for their human and civil rights.
Website: http://www.caircoalition.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/CAIRCoalitionDC
Central American Resource Center (CARECEN-DC)
The Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) is a community based organization that seeks to foster the comprehensive development of the Latino community in the Washington metropolitan region. CARECEN was founded in 1981 to protect the rights of refugees arriving from conflict in Central America and to help ease their transition by providing legal services. Today our programs provide direct services in immigration, housing and citizenship while also promoting empowerment, civil rights advocacy and civic training for Latinos.
Website: http://www.carecendc.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/CARECEN.DC
Casa Ruby LGBT Community Center
Casa Ruby is the only Bilingual Multicultural LGBT Organization providing life saving services and programs to the most vulnerable in the LGBT community. The mission is to create success life stories among Transgender, Gender Queer and Gender Non-conforming Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people.
Website: http://casaruby.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/CasaRubyDC
Washington Peace Center
The Washington Peace Center provides education, resources and action for those working for positive social change and a world free from oppression.
Website: http://www.washingtonpeacecenter.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/WashingtonPeaceCenter
Advocacy Off Campus: National Organizations
United We Dream
United We Dream is the largest immigrant youth-led organization in the nation. Our powerful nonpartisan network is made up of over 100,000 immigrant youth and allies and 55 affiliate organizations in 26 states. We organize and advocate for the dignity and fair treatment of immigrant youth and families, regardless of immigration status.
Website: http://unitedwedream.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/UnitedWeDream
Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project
hThe Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project (QUIP), a program of United We Dream seeks to organize and empower Undocumented Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer immigrants, LGBTQ immigrants and allies to address social and systemic barriers that affect themselves and the broader LGBTQ & immigrant community.
Website: http://unitedwedream.org/about/projects/quip/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/QUIPnational
Detention Watch Network
The Detention Watch Network works through the collective strength and diversity of its members to expose and challenge the injustices of the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system and advocate for profound change that promotes the rights and dignity of all persons.
Website: http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/DetentionWatchNetwork
Advocacy Off Campus: Northern Virginia
Mason DREAMers
The mission of the Mason DREAMers is to create a more inclusive environment for undocumented students through education and advocacy.
Website: http://www.masondreamers.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/MasonDreaMers
Dream Project – VA
The Dream Project empowers students whose immigration status creates barriers to education by working with them to access and succeed in college through scholarships, mentoring, family engagement, and advocacy. They partner with Mason DREAMers.
Website: http://www.dreamproject-va.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/DreamProject.VA
Virginia Coalition of Latino Organizations (VACOLAO)
The Virginia Coalition of Latino Organizations (VACOLAO) is a coalition of non-profit organizations serving and supporting the Latino/Hispanic immigrant communities in Virginia. Since its foundation in 2002, VACOLAO have been advocating for the rights of Latino immigrant in the Commonwealth. VACOLAO works to empower, secure equal treatment, opportunity, and representation for Latinos/Hispanics. To achieve this mission VACOLAO has provided leadership for education and advocacy for Latino immigrants and immigrant advocate supporters.
Website: http://vacolao.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/VACOLAO-Virginia-Coalition-of-Latino-Organizations-130850813607672
Legal Aid Justice Center
The Immigrant Advocacy Program represents low-wage immigrant workers in court and administrative proceedings, counsels them about their rights under federal and state law to be paid for their work, recovers unpaid wages they have earned, and fights workplace discrimination. With a special focus on day laborers and migrant farmworkers, we seek to stop unjust employment practices and assist hard-working immigrants throughout Virginia who face discrimination and exploitation.
Website: https://www.justice4all.org/immigrant-advocacy-program/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/LegalAidJusticeCenter