Events
Young Center events spotlight the urgent issues facing immigrant children and the actions we’re taking to support them. Join us to learn how current events are affecting the children, youth, and families we serve—and discover the most powerful ways you can make a difference right now.
Upcoming Events
Webinar
We Rise Through Our Stories: How Immigrant Children, Families, and Communities Resist through Storytelling
Join us on June 30th at 1 PM ET for “We Rise Through Our Stories: How Immigrant Children, Families, and Communities Resist through Storytelling,” a webinar featuring author Reyna Grande, children’s book illustrator Jacqueline Alcantara, and poet Pavana Reddy. Moderated by author and Young Center Board Member Frances de Pontes Peebles, in honor of National Immigrant Heritage Month, we’ll be reflecting on the transformative power of storytelling and art within immigrant communities.
Save the Date
6th annual Elizabeth Frankel Waymakers Virtual Mileage Challenge
September 1-30, 2026
This year’s Waymakers Challenge will directly support the Young Center’s rapid response advocacy mobilizing action across courtrooms, Congress, and communities to protect immigrant children from family separation, prolonged detention, and deportation.
Interested in becoming a sponsor? Learn more by downloading our kit below.
Past Events
- Webinar: Family Separation on Our Street Corners: The Young Center’s Real-Time Response
- Webinar- Midnight Removals: Update on Illegal Deportation Flight of Guatemalan Kids
- Webinar – The Road Ahead for Immigrant Families, Children, and Youth: A Post-Election Recap
- Protecting Immigrant Children in a Post-Title 42 Landscape.
- Safeguarding Children’s Rights to Family and Safety: State of Play 2023
- Reimagine Virtual Benefit
- Webinar – Fading Hope: A Year of Immigrant Children’s Rights under the Biden Administration
- Webinar – Kids Are Not Alright: How Border Policies Continue to Separate Families and Harm Children
- 2021 Waymaker Race for Immigrant Children
- Young Center Spring Soirée, 2021 Virtual Benefit
- Webinar – Serving LGBTQIA Children Who Are Seeking Protection
- An Immigration System Built on Children’s Rights and Best Interests
- Webinar – African Immigrant Children in America: Caught between Hope and Reality
- Be A Waymaker: Young Center New York Virtual Benefit
- Family Separation in the United States
- Webinar – Finding Home: Safe Repatriation for Immigrant Children during the Pandemic
- Webinar – Working for Immigrant Children in Custody and Across the Border in Times of COVID-19
- Webinar – Human Consequences of Immigration Policy: An Update from the Field
Become a Corporate Partner
The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights is pleased to partner with local and national businesses on a variety of corporate sponsorship opportunities.
Sponsorship opportunities are designed to increase visibility in the communities we serve and promote goodwill through association with our work. As a sponsor, you will make a difference in the lives of immigrant children by helping to ensure they have someone by their side to accompany them every step of the way. Corporate sponsors often donate to events or campaigns, provide in-kind goods, or donate a percentage of proceeds from sales on targeted days. Our team will help market and promote your company as a thank you for your support.