Policy impacting immigrant communities ranges across numerous areas. Join CIPC for regular webinars and trainings to learn more about key issues impacting immigrant communities and how you can get involved.

Full Day Trainings

Unlocking Our Power: Moving Pro-Immigrant Policies in 2012

Oakland - February 16th

Next:
Los Angeles
March 5th (Monday)
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9am to 3pm
(Registration begins at 8:30am)
Registration Fee: $75

Track 1: Communications
Public Messaging for Immigrant Advocates
In today’s crowded media environment immigrants need to have a voice and a role in shaping public debate on immigration and policies affecting immigrants.   How do we help nurture that voice to influence the public in favor of pro-immigrant policies? How do we counter anti-immigrant messages? To help advocates foment a positive public debate over immigration, we at CIPC have developed a special messaging training for advocates, as well as innovative training tools. Through the training you will learn how to:

• Use a pro-immigrant narrative frame that is simple and effective
• Prepare yourself to be interviewed by a reporter, or present at a press conference
• Respond to difficult questions so that the message you want to deliver comes through

 Gaining Coverage of Immigrant Issues: Nuts and Bolts
Learn about what you can do to engage your local media on the important issues affecting immigrants in your communities. Whether your organization is helping immigrants access health coverage programs or organizing immigrant families, this workshop will cover the basics of reaching out to your local media about the issues affecting immigrants in your community. Learn how to frame news stories about immigrant-related issues, write a press release, make “pitch calls” to reporters, and develop spokespeople to advance campaigns and programs that support immigrants and their families.
 
Track 2: Health & Public Benefits
Immigrant Eligibility for Public Benefits in California
What public benefits are immigrant communities in California eligible for? What health programs are available to immigrant families, children, and the elderly? Learn how to navigate the maze of immigrant eligibility for public benefits.
 
Immigrants and Healthcare Reform Implementation in California
California is implementing healthcare reform now, and the stakes are high for immigrant communities. Learn about the key issues likely to face policymakers and immigrant communities as we roll out healthcare reform in the coming years. Find out how you can get involved in sharing the needs of immigrants in your communities with policymakers now while there is a chance to make a difference.

Track 3: Protecting Civil Rights & Public Safety
Making California's Communities Insecure: A Primer on "S-Comm"
This training provides basic information on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) deeply flawed and misnamed "Secure" Communities (S-Comm) deportation program, which involves state and local police in the enforcement of federal civil immigration law. The deportation of tens of thousands of immigrant family members and workers has devastated California's communities. Find out what you and the immigrant communities you serve need to know about this damaging program.  Topics include detailed program description, recent developments, and highlights of local advocacy efforts to fight back against this program and other collaborations between ICE and the police.

Protecting Civil Rights and Public Safety: Information Sharing and Strategy Session

Track 4: Advocating for Immigrant Rights
Advocacy 101: Standing Up for Immigrant Communities
This workshop introduces some basic and useful strategies for advocacy. Enhance your organization’s ability to talk about key immigrant issues to policymakers and elected officials by learning how our state budget process works, how a bill becomes a law, and the most effective ways to educate our state leaders about what matters most to your community.
 
Advocacy 102: Developing Strategies to Win
How do you build an advocacy campaign from the ground up on the issues that make a difference to immigrant communities? From crafting a policy proposal to building support and designing a communications strategy, this workshop will walk you through the steps of developing a winning campaign through the examination of a case immigrant rights campaign.

Webinar trainings

April Webinar Series- Our April webinar series is back for 2012. Webinars will focus on key legislation impacting immigrants in California. We will discuss the details of the legislation and the outlook for Sacramento.

More details coming soon

pREVIOUS WEBINARS

Public Benefits 101 with the National Immigration Law Center
(June 2011)
The webinar will review immigrant eligibility for the major benefits in California, including programs that are available regardless of status, as well as those with immigration-related restrictions.
Speakers include: Tanya Broder, National Immigration Law Center

Implications of Health Care Reform Implementation for Immigrant Communities
(July 2011)
Join us on July 20th to learn how California’s immigrants and communities of color can benefit from federal health reform and how to ensure the needs of these communities are prioritized during health reform implementation to ensure access to affordable, quality health care.
Speakers include: Sonal Ambegaokar, National Immigration Law Center; Cary Sanders, California Pan Ethnic Health Network; and Ronald Coleman, CIPC.

California Dream Act - AB 130 & 131 (Cedillo)  (April 2011)
Unfortunately a small percentage of California's best and brightest lack proper documentation, making them ineligible for sources of financial aid. AB 130 & 131 would allow undocumented students to apply for scholarships and certain forms of financial aid.
Speakers include: Luis Quinonez (Office of Assemblymember Gil Cedillo), Maria Gomez (UCLA)