Resources
Here’s our list of some favorite resources and organizations.
Scroll down for Know Your Rights resources. We encourage that you visit UndocuHub for an extensive, categorized list of community resources not related to immigrant detention.
National Resources
AsylumConnect: this free web and mobile resource platform instantly matches LGBTQ+ people fleeing persecution with verified safe legal, medical, mental health, and social service providers across North America.
Colorado Immigrant Justice Fund: raises legal funds for immigrants who currently are, or recently have been detained, in detention centers around the country.
Detention Watch Network: a national coalition to abolish immigration detention in the United States.
FindHello: an app available as a website or for download on your mobile device. It helps immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees find nearby resources on a searchable map.
Freedom for Immigrants: an organization fighting to expose and abolish U.S. immigration detention.
National Bail Fund Network: made up of over ninety community bail and bond funds across the country.
Local Colorado Resources
American Friends Service Committee: AFSC Denver organizes allies, faith communities, and immigrants along the Front Range to support immigrant justice.
Capital Good Fund: gives small loans at reduced rates to help immigrants, their families and friends to hire lawyers like Knudson Associates.
Colorado Hosting Asylum Network: an organization that petitions for the release of asylum seekers from detention and hosts them in a private home for the duration of their legal process, or until they obtain a work permit and can establish independence.
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition: a statewide, membership-based coalition of immigrant, faith, labor, youth, community, business, and ally organizations.
IRIS Project: resource directory for Colorado immigrants, refugees, asylees, and their allies.
Immigrant Freedom Fund: helps pay for people’s bonds at the GEO facility in Aurora, CO.
Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN): working to ensure justice for adults in immigration detention and for immigrant children who have suffered from abuse, neglect, or violence.
Community Services
We encourage that you visit UndocuHub for an extensive, categorized list of community resources not related to immigrant detention.
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Colectiva Creando Cambios en Colorado is providing resources to community. Providing mental health resources and community capacity building.
Here: https://www.facebook.com/colectivaunida
Village Exchange Center is proving support to people in Aurora, CO. From vaccination clinics to youth programs.
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resource directory for Colorado immigrants, refugees, asylees, and their allies.
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providing ESL, Cultural Navigation Services, youth services, translation classes, and more.
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Connecting Colorado’s undocumented community to meaningful support services.
Here: https://undocuhub.us
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For resources regarding DACA please go to Juntos Community
Know Your Rights Resources
CIRC’s KYR
The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition has created a webpage around Know Your Rights (KYR). We encourage that you review their page if you are looking for KYR information.
Fort Collins Area
Fuerza Latina has put this packet together for folkx in the Fort Collins area.
Weld County Resources
Immigrant and Refugee Center of Northern CO is assisting folkx in the Weld county/Greeley area.