Dear John, 

In this week’s newsletter:

• Become an Active Member
• Free Workshops Offer a Mind and Body Reset
• CMS Health Equity Advisory Committee
• Summer EBT Survey
• Webinar on ACA Access for People With DACA

We’ve got a lot of work to do in 2025, and PIF working groups are the best way for members to stay informed and get involved. We have working groups focused on:

• Communications – communication strategy, messages, and materials
• Community Education – best practices to engage and empower immigrant families
• Federal Advocacy – legislative advocacy
• Policy and Legal Analysis – administrative advocacy and analysis
• Research – research design and dissemination
• State Policy – state legislative and administrative advocacy

To join a working group, you must first become an active members. Request to join below. 

Join a Working Group

The last few months have left many of us drained. And with real challenges ahead, self-care has to be a priority. Fortunately, resilience practitioner Chalene Jones is offering a workshop series to help movement leaders reset with focused Qi Gong & TaiJi. These free, virtual workshops are open to individuals and groups on November 14 and 21 at Noon ET. Learn more and sign up using the link below, and please join us in thanking Chalene for this generous offer.

Resilience Workshops

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the federal agency that operates Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. As our work on Medicaid “unwinding” illustrates, the decisions CMS makes have profound effects on the health of immigrant families. CMS is recruiting members for a new Health Equity Advisory Committee, charged with advising agency leadership on lowering systemic barriers to care facing persons of color and others “affected by persistent poverty or inequality.” CMS is seeking nominations from nonprofits, as well as individuals, and we encourage experienced PIF member organizations to consider nominating qualified HEAC members.

Learn More

Our partners at No Kid Hungry have championed the new Summer EBT (“Sunbucks”) program launched this year by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The survey linked below explores how Summer EBT helps or can help children and their families, as well as opportunities to improve enrollment. No Kid Hungry will use survey results to inform recommendations to state leaders and community organizations and to inform its own food security advocacy efforts. While the survey is not only for immigrant families, it is important to No Kid Hungry to understand how the program served immigrant families with children and how it can be more responsive to the needs of immigrant families. The survey is open now through December, in states offering Summer EBT, so please consider sharing it with the families you serve.

Share the Survey

Curious about health insurance for DACA recipients? Given today’s politics, it’s especially important right now to encourage eligible people in immigrant families to get the care they need. You are invited to a 30 webinar on November 19th at 3pmEST/12PST hosted by our partners at the National Immigration Law Center, United We Dream, and Young Invincibles. Learn about how DACA recipients are now eligible for Affordable Care Act coverage and get answers to common questions about health insurance for DACA. You can also help to spread the word, using the media pitch and social samples in our toolkit.

Register for the Webinar

Active Member Only Toolkits

Become an Active Member

Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition
P.O. Box 34573
Washington, DC 20043
United States

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