VQ provides shelter and care to unaccompanied children and teens who enter the United States without a parent or guardian.
VQ provides shelter and care to unaccompanied children and teens who enter the United States without a parent or guardian.
The moment a youth enters one of our programs, we do everything in our power to ensure they feel welcomed. Many of them have had very difficult journeys to get to where they are and we want them to feel as if they are finally safe. While they are with us, each child is treated with the utmost respect. We provide them with fresh clothes, hot meals, and a bed of their own to sleep in. As we continue to care for them, our staff dedicate themselves to contacting each child's family members in their home country and work to identify any and all family members who reside in the U.S. A majority of children are united with family members or approved sponsors within a month of arrival.
Nutritious and Culturally Appropriate Meals and Snacks
New Clothing and Personal Hygiene Items
Personalized Space including a bed, desk and dresser
Recreational Activities including sports, art and music
Guided Life Skills
Individualized Daily Classroom Education
Healthcare
Including vaccines, routine physicals and dental exams
Mental Health Services including trauma informed counseling.
Our first priority is to the safety and wellbeing of the children within our care. If no suitable sponsor for a child is located, the child may be moved into our Long Term Foster Care program. In this program, youth reside in our Pathfinder homes, attend public school and volunteer in their communities , while our case managers work with legal assistance programs to establish permanent legal residency and placement for the youth.
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Before they come to stay in VQ facilities, unaccompanied children are typically kept in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
Regardless of their immigration status, VQ believes that every child deserves to have a place where they can feel respected and cared for. We provide that place for youth that we take in while a sponsor who can care for them more permanently is found. We also place an emphasis on using the least restrictive measures possible in these programs to prevent youth from feeling trapped in any way.
A majority of the cases in these programs are placed into the care of a sponsor within a month of arrival, though some cases do take longer. If a suitable sponsor is not able to be identified for a child, they are transitioned into a long-term foster care program until a more permanent solution can be found.
Our shelters provide youth with fresh clothes, hot meals, and spaces to call their own. In addition to this, we offer each youth the proper education for their age while they are enrolled in our programs, but we also ensure that they have leisure time and space for activities, both indoors and outdoors.
Our facilities are currently located in southern Arizona, but we are constantly searching for different areas to expand into should the opportunity and necessity arise. Our facilities are strategically located to reduce travel times for youth from ORR custody as well as into the custody of their sponsor.
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