Partnerships

What It Means to Be a Partner

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Working Together to Support Immigrant Families

The Secure Families Collaborative is built on partnership. Our work brings together community-based organizations, legal service providers, and public agencies to ensure immigrant families have access to the resources they need to thrive.

Some partners receive funding through the Collaborative to expand critical services, while others join the network through a shared commitment in supporting immigrant families. Together, partners contribute their expertise, share information, and coordinate services so that families can access legal support, social services, and trusted guidance through a connected network.

By working collaboratively, we strengthen our collective ability to respond to community needs and provide meaningful, culturally responsive support.

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Immigration Legal Services Partners

In rapidly changing immigration landscapes, Secure Families Collaborative’s legal service partners are essential to our model. Through our cross-sector network, vetted immigration attorneys provide critical case strategy, legal consultation, community education, and guidance on emergency preparedness.

Working in coordination with social service providers, community organizations, and trusted community messengers, our legal partners ensure that accurate legal expertise is integrated throughout the broader support system serving immigrant families.

Examples of Grant Funded Partnerships

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Undocumented, Immigrant, and Refugee Support Funded Partners (Pass-Through Funding)

Through a Undocumented, Immigrant, and Refugee Support grant from Sonoma County, Secure Families Collaborative helps distribute funding to organizations working directly with immigrant communities. To ensure a fair and community-informed process, a diverse group of independent panelists reviewed applications and selected the organizations that received funding.

Secure Families Collaborative administers the grant by distributing funds, supporting partner organizations, and ensuring programs stay on track to meet their goals and deliverables. This process strengthens trusted community organizations and expands access to critical resources for immigrant families across the region.

Through collaboration with these partners, immigrant families can access a range of multicultural and multilingual services, including:

• Immigration legal consultations
• Know Your Rights and emergency preparedness workshops
• Benefits screenings, including health insurance enrollment
• Community outreach and education
• Resource navigation and referrals
• Referrals to family support services such as housing, food access, and childcare resources

By connecting families to these services through a trusted network of organizations, the Collaborative helps ensure support is accessible, culturally responsive, and coordinated across providers.

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Local Immigrant Integration and Inclusion Grant (LIIIG)

The 2024–2025 Local Immigrant Integration and Inclusion Grant (LIIIG) brought together the Secure Families Collaborative, Sonoma County’s Economic Development Collaborative, the County Administrator’s Office, and 211 United Way of the Wine Country to better understand the needs of immigrant families across Sonoma County.

Through this partnership, the Secure Families Collaborative and 211 United Way conducted community outreach, designed and distributed surveys, and analyzed data to identify service gaps and strengthen coordination among immigrant-serving organizations.

Despite a time of heightened fear and uncertainty within immigrant communities, the project surpassed its outreach goals, gathering responses from over 1,000 immigrants across the county. Importantly, much of the outreach and data collection was conducted by trusted immigrant community members, helping ensure voices that are often underrepresented were heard.

The insights gathered through this effort are helping partners better understand community needs and strengthen the delivery of essential safety-net services such as food access, housing support, healthcare, and childcare. By grounding decisions in community-informed data, this project helps ensure resources and services are aligned with the real needs of immigrant families.