The End SIJS Backlog Coalition and The Door announces the release of a report about the harms of the SIJS Backlog. An interview with ILAP’s Immigrant Children’s Project Attorney Maggie Loeffelholz was featured in the report. Read more…
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Legal Director Phil Mantis was featured alongside advocates from De-ICE Maine and a Maine family on Freedom & Captivity's podcast episode about Immigration Detention and Deportation. Listen here…
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Maine law firm Berman & Simmons announces the election of Alicia Curtis, Esq. as ILAP’s new Board of Directors President. Read more…
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The UU Church of Brunswick is generously donating proceeds from their Concert for a Cause series to ILAP and Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. The series kicks off with the Novel Jazz Septet on November 13th. Thanks, UUCB! Read more…
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Executive Director Sue Roche appears as a featured guest on WBLM’s Perspectives with Celeste and talks about ILAP’s current work and the organization’s history and future. Listen here…
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The Bangor Daily News announces the recipients of Machias Savings Bank’s Community Development Grants. ILAP is grateful to be among the 14 awardees! Read more…
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MaineBiz announces the Maine Justice Foundation 2021 awardees, including ILAP Asylum Program Director Jennifer Bailey who received the Thomas P. Downing, Jr. Award for her career in civil justice and dedication to asylum seekers in Maine. Read more…
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ILAP was among the Maine organizations supported by the Frances Hollis Brain Foundation Fund of the Maine Community Foundation this year, the Bangor Daily News reports. We are grateful for the support! Read more…
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Maine Biz announces the 2021 Maine Women’s Fund grantees and ILAP is honored to be among the nonprofits to receive funding in support of our work with survivors of violence. Read more…
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C. Love Cookie Project, whose proceeds benefit ILAP and other Maine nonprofits, was featured on Greenlight Maine’s new series, “Elevating Maine,” as reported by The Arab Daily News. ILAP Board members Thomas Douglas and Adele Masengo Ngoy were also spotlighted in this series. Read more…
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Maine Justice Foundation president H. Lowell Brown writes in the Bangor Daily News about the importance of civil legal aid, following the Access to Justice Day earlier in April at the Maine Legislature. Read more…
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Hannah Mckenzie, past ILAP intern and current Bates College senior, talks about her academic and community experience in Lewiston and the process of applying for and receiving the Watson Fellowship. Congrats, Hannah! Read more…
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A Managing Partner at Preti Flaherty writes in Mainebiz about the law firm’s commitment to equity, highlighting their partnership with ILAP in support of our Immigrant Children’s Project. Thank you, Preti Flaherty! Read more…
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ILAP volunteer translator and Bates College student, Fiona Cohen, worked with another student to identify needs and develop resources for the asylum-seeking community in the Lewiston/Auburn area. Read more…
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Executive Director Sue Roche reflects on her 20 years at ILAP and looks ahead to 2021 encouraged by the new administration’s early steps to change immigration policy. Read more…
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ILAP and Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program will be the beneficiaries of a virtual Concert for a Cause featuring singer-songwriter David Wilcox and hosted by Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, highlighted here in this Bangor Daily News article. Thank you, David and UUCB! Read more…
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ILAP was among the 16 local organizations chosen by Rockland’s Good Tern Co-op to benefit from their “Round Up for Change” program in 2019, highlighted here in this Penobscot Bay Pilot article. Thank you, Good Tern! Read more…
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Executive Director Sue Roche joins other community leaders in sharing aspirations for the coming year in this Maine Biz article. Read more…
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