UURISE responds to the needs of a wide variety of communities and partners by providing services and resources designed to support and further justice for immigrants.
Our services include:
Community Education
For immigrant communities, UURISE provides education services on a variety of issues related to immigration and human rights, including possible protections available to those without a pathway.
Free information forums include topics such as:
- Know Your Rights
- Pathways to a Green Card
- Emergency Safety Planning for Immigrants (ESPI)
- Naturalization and Citizenship
Partner Education & Resources
For partner organizations*, UURISE provides no-cost and low-cost trainings, workshops, presentations, and technical assistance to help our partners best support their immigrant and mixed-status clients, community, and constituents.
Current presentation topics include:
- Know Your Rights as Community Partners
- Possible Immigration Relief for Victims
- Current Immigration Laws, Policies, & Enforcement
Current trainings & workshops include:
- Resource for Educators – UURISE Educators Toolkit
- How to access and use UURISE’s Educators Toolkit. Designed for education administrators, faculty, and staff of K-12, and higher education institutions.
- Train the Trainer for Emergency Safety Planning for Immigrants (ESPI)
- How to access UURISE’s Emergency Safety Planning for Immigrants (ESPI) tools and provide ESPI services to your organization’s or community group’s clients, community, and constituents.
Current Technical Assistance offering:
- Technical Assistance for Emergency Safety Planning (ESPI) Services
- One-on-one or group support, guidance, and supplemental training for people and institutions who have completed Train the Trainer and are providing ESPI services or are preparing to provide ESPI services as a part of a community group or organisation.
We also provide our partners access to digital tools and can offer technical assistance to help them implement these tools as a no-cost service to their own clientele/community.
*Nonprofit organizations, grassroots organizations, educators & educational institutions, and faith communities.
Faithful Justice
UURISE helps congregations and small group ministries deepen and broaden their work on immigrant justice through education, discernment, and technical assistance (TA). We work with them to develop or deepen an anti-racist/anti-oppressive perspective. To be of service to the immigrant community, congregations (particularly those that are majority-white) must work to recognize and dismantle privilege and oppression. This work facilitates moving away from a savior mindset and toward a collective liberation framework. This process helps congregations cultivate humility, embrace listening to and trusting impacted communities, and move toward partnering with the people in their communities already doing the work.
Our Faithful Justice model is designed to do more than train a group of people in how to advocate for others: it is intended to create radically welcoming, resilient, relational spaces that serve our congregations and their wider communities far beyond the immigration work that might be their initial goal.
To accomplish this, we can offer a variety of tools, resources, and connections with partners in order to facilitate learning, cultural change within congregations, and increased capacity for immigrant justice work.
Opportunities for discernment and technical assistance include:
- Sanctuary and immigrant accompaniment
- Developing accountable community partnerships
- Developing and maintaining anti-racist/anti-oppression based immigrant justice programs
- Justice Portals / Ventanillas de Justicia where UURISE leverages technology and relationships to bring immigration-related services to congregations and their partners in underserved areas
Faithful Justice services also include:
- Worship & lifespan Religious Exploration (RE) resources
- Pulpit supply
- Congregational generosity
Getting in touch
We would love to work with you toward justice and equity.
To request an educational forum, presentation or training, or begin a conversation, please contact us using the form below: