Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights
Meghan Jorgensen is currently serving as the Chief Development Officer at the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights. Prior to this role, Meghan held various development positions at organizations such as Heartland Alliance, Presence Health, and The Field Museum. Meghan holds a MA in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago and a BSW in Social Work from Aurora University.
Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights
The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights is a non-profit organization whose mission is to advocate for the rights of unaccompanied immigrant children. Guided by the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and state and federal child protection laws, the Young Center has developed the only program in the nation that provides guardians ad litem (Child Advocates) for trafficking victims and unaccompanied immigrant children. Our work serving individual children drives our policy work. Through our work as Child Advocates (guardians ad litem), we promote change by advocating for the best interests of individual immigrant children, thereby educating stakeholders about the importance of considering the ‘Respondent’ as a child. Child Advocates are bilingual and often bicultural volunteers who are trained and supervised by attorneys with experience in children’s rights and immigration law. In every case assigned a Child Advocate, the Young Center provides the child’s attorney (if they are represented) and the decision-maker with a report about the best interests of that individual child.