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Community Partners

Tucson Borderlands YAVs work 32-36 hours each week with a Community Partner (spending the other 4-8 work hours each week focused on intentional community). We are proud and honored to work with these partners who are doing amazing things across Tucson! 
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Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
The Florence Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal service organization providing free legal services to men, women, and unaccompanied children in immigration custody in Arizona. Although the government assists indigent criminal defendants and civil litigants through public defenders and legal aid attorneys, it does not provide attorneys for people in immigration removal proceedings. As a result, an estimated 86 percent of the detained people go unrepresented due to poverty. The Florence Project strives to address this inequity both locally and nationally through direct service, partnerships with the community, and advocacy and outreach efforts.  For more about the Florence Project, click here. (Spanish language skills required for placement at FIRRP.)

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Middle Eastern Presbyterian Fellowship
The Middle Eastern Presbyterian Fellowship (MEPF) is an Arabic-speaking fellowship in Tucson, Arizona that welcomes and embraces everyone to worship together in a warm, loving, and safe community. We share our faith and the Gospel of Jesus Christ with immigrants, refugees, and asylees from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt. For ten years, MEPF has offered resettlement services such as translations, interpretations, and some family support. Through our ministry of words and deed we are bringing awareness, knowledge, and growth to our fellowship and community. For more about the Middle Eastern Presbyterian Fellowship, click here. (Arabic language skills recommended for placement at MEPF) 

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​Primavera Foundation

Volunteers have worked in a variety of positions, from resource specialist to financial education advocate. Primavera provides pathways out of poverty through safe, affordable housing, workforce development and neighborhood revitalization. Primavera promotes economic and social justice while working to build a future in which all people are assured basic human rights, a livable income, and safe, affordable housing. For more about Primavera, click here.

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The Inn Project
The Inn Project is a short-term hospitality ministry established in December 2016 that hosts asylum seekers en route to their sponsors around the United States. Most guests are single parents with children who have recently entered the U.S. to make their asylum petitions. Housed in the basement of First United Methodist Church, the Inn offers a safe place to rest while people arrange their travel to their final destination. In 2017, the Inn hosted 687 families, most who stayed 1-3 days at the Inn. Volunteers at the Inn Project will respond to the needs of each day, cooking meals, making beds, doing laundry, completing registration paperwork with new guests, and (most importantly) offering a listening ear and compassionate presence to our neighbors on the road. ​For more about The Inn Project, click here.

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Community Home Repair Projects of Arizona (CHRPA)
Volunteers work closely with a wide variety of local and national volunteers and staff to provide free home repair to low income and working poor residents of the Tucson valley.  Volunteers receive training and provide direct home repair services to a diverse community. For more about CHRPA, click here.


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Keep Tucson Together 
Keep Tucson Together is a volunteer-run, free immigration legal clinic. We believe that families deserve to remain together, and that all people deserve legal representation in immigration court. Our volunteer lawyers represent anyone from Pima County who lands in immigration court. Our non-lawyer volunteers work directly with clients, prepare bonds, asylum petitions, and other defenses against deportation. KTT volunteers learn about immigration law and have a huge impact in our community. A YAV at Keep Tucson Together will be able to visit clients in detention, help fill out immigration paperwork, and practice flexibility in responding to community needs as they arise. Join us! For more about Keep Tucson Together, click here. 

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Frontera de Cristo 
Note: YAVs placed with Frontera de Cristo live in Agua Prieta. Contact the Site Coordinator for more information on this international opportunity. 

Volunteers live in Agua Prieta Mexico and work extensively with Protestants, Catholics and people of good will in the United States and Mexico to provide direct humanitarian assistance to deportees returned to Mexico by the Border Patrol. Frontera de Cristo is a Presbyterian border ministry located in the sister cities of Agua Prieta, Sonora and Douglas, Arizona. For more about Frontera de Cristo, click here. (Spanish language skills required for placement at Frontera de Cristo.)

Interested in partnering with the Tucson Borderlands YAV site? Email the Site Coordinator to find out more and fill out an application!

Tucson Borderlands YAV
Send mail: 400 E University, Tucson, AZ 85705
Call/text: (520) 355-4YAV Email: tucsonborderlandsyav@gmail.com
Connect with us on instagram and facebook: @tucsonyav
We are located on traditional Tohono O'odham and Yaqui homelands.

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