Section 1: Placement in ORR Care Provider Facilities
This federal agency is primarily responsible for apprehending unaccompanied alien children before referring them to ORR custody.
What is the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)?
Also known as "family reunification," promotes public safety and ensure that sponsors are able to provide for the physical and mental well-being of children.
What is safe and timely release?
This assessment, conducted within 24 hours of a UAC’s admission, must be preceded by informing the child that honest answers are essential, potentially impacting their placement if previously unreported criminal history or violent behavior is disclosed.
What is the Initial Intakes Assessment?
ORR has this type of policy toward all forms of sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and inappropriate sexual behavior at care provider facilities.
What is a zero-tolerance policy?
ORR conducts these at least monthly to ensure that care providers meet minimum standards for the care and timely release of unaccompanied alien children, and that they abide by all Federal and State laws and regulations, licensing and accreditation standards, ORR policies and procedures, and child welfare standards.
What are monitoring visits?
ORR must place each unaccompanied alien child in this type of setting, considering their best interests, safety, and runaway risk.
What is the least restrictive setting?
This category of sponsor, which includes parents or legal guardians, is given the highest preference by ORR for the release of an unaccompanied alien child.
What is Category 1?
This exam, required within 2 business days of admission, must screen for infectious diseases and be conducted by a licensed mid-level provider or higher, unless the child was recently examined at another ORR facility.
What is the Initial Medical Exam (IME)?
This type of sexual abuse by an adult includes intentional touching of a child's genitalia or other private areas with the intent to arouse or gratify sexual desire.
What is sexual abuse of a child by an adult?
Incidents, events, or observations that affect the health, safety, and wellbeing of individual children and include emergency incidents, significant incidents, behavioral notes, and historical disclosures.
What are Child-Level Events?
ORR gives priority for transitional foster care placements to children in these special situations, including those under 13, sibling groups, or pregnant/parenting children.
What are children with specific individualized needs?
An agreement the sponsor enters into with the Federal government agreeing to comply with certain provisions to ensure the child’s safety and well-being while the child is in their care
What is a Sponsor Care Agreement?
This plan assists care providers in identifying and documenting the child’s disability-related needs as well as the services, supports, and reasonable accommodations that must be provided to enable the child to reside in the least restrictive setting in their best interest and the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs.
What is Individualized Section 504 Service Plan?
This term refers to an invasion of privacy of a child by a staff member, grantee, contractor, or volunteer for reasons unrelated to official duties.
What is voyeurism?
These events impact an entire care provider facility, its staff, and unaccompanied children, requiring immediate action.
What are Program-Level Events?
This panel, consisting of ORR senior-level staff, reviews a child’s request to reconsider their placement in a restrictive setting like a secure facility or RTC.
What is the Placement Review Panel (PRP)?
This program, managed by the Office of Legal Access Programs within the DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, educates potential sponsors about their responsibilities and the child’s immigration proceedings.
What is the Legal Orientation Program for Custodians (LOPC)?
This assessment serves as the foundation for a child’s initial release plan and service evaluation.
What is the UAC Assessment?
To reduce the risk of sexual abuse in ORR care, all care providers must conduct this evaluation within 72 hours of admission and every 30 days thereafter.
What is the Assessment for Risk?
ORR collaborates with consulates for this activity, critical when a child’s family is in a remote area without telephone access or when the child is too young to communicate.
What is family tracing?
A standard of evidence requiring that a factfinder be convinced that a contention is highly probable—i.e., substantially more likely to be true than untrue.
What is clear and convincing evidence?
Care providers must conduct this type of call 30 days after releasing an unaccompanied alien child to their sponsor.
What is a Safety and Well-Being Follow-Up Call?
The infliction of physical pain on any part of a child’s body as a means of controlling or managing the child’s behavior.
What is corporal punishment?
This position, requiring ORR pre-hire approval, oversees compliance with sexual abuse prevention policies at each care provider facility.
What is the Prevention of Sexual Abuse Compliance Manager?
This team, composed of ORR staff with expertise in child welfare, quickly reviews serious allegations like sexual abuse or severe physical injury to ensure child safety.
What is the Abuse Review Team (ART)?