CILA’s Boot Camp is a participatory, interactive training designed to provide context for the unique circumstances of working with detained immigrant youth. Working with these children requires essential advocacy skills that go beyond the black letter of the law. Through Boot Camp, CILA aims to create a safe space for practical learning of those skills—a place where practitioners can step back from the headlong rush towards finding legal relief for clients and ground themselves in an interdisciplinary, human centered approach that will take your work to a whole other level.
Boot Camp is meant to be a place where for anyone working with detained immigrant youth to learn about communicating, interacting, and engaging with clients. You will learn how to really work with youth who are detained: how to be their guide and advocate. The training will also provide a place to share knowledge and experience and to learn the necessary skills so that you can offer dignified, zealous representation to your child clients.
Topics include child interviewing techniques, engaging children in a group setting such as KYR, and OTIP letters and violations of children's rights. Boot Camp presentations are not recorded.
