The Role of Community-Based Immigrant-Serving Organizations in Bridging Home and School During COVID-19

• In Event: Partnering With Immigrant Families and Communities

Abstract

This presentation will analyze findings from a qualitative study that explores the work of four non-profit immigrant-serving organizations located in the Midwest and southeastern region of the U.S. that provided educational support to immigrant and refugee families with school-aged children and youth during the 2020 -2021 school year.
Specifically, the research centered on the following questions: How did immigrant-serving organizations support immigrant and refugee families with remote learning and other educational efforts during the first year of the pandemic? What challenges and successes did they experience? The objective of this research is to present nuanced understandings of how mutually beneficial partnerships between community organizations and schools can be nurtured and sustained during and beyond the pandemic.

Authors

• Liv T. Dávila, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Presenting Author

• Lan Quach Kolano, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
  Presenting Author

• Lucero Garcia-Villegas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Presenting Author