Promising Practices

Youth Work’s Immigration Movement

Agencies open the doors, close the blinds to attract youth from immigrant families.

By Ed FinkelThe Boys & Girls Club of West Georgia, after witnessing a 30 percent increase in Latino participants in three years, offers free weekly Spanish classes for its workers. Girls Inc. of Alameda County, Calif., gives bilingual employees a salary bonus. In Seattle, Camp Fire USA's Central Puget Sound chapter partners with a national research organization to identify local immigrant populations and determine their needs.