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Resources
Personal & Family Safety
How To Protect Your Family & Assets
Everyone should have a Family Emergency Preparedness Plan in case something unexpected happens and you can’t take care of your children and pets, or handle your money yourself. There are steps you can take now to lessen the impact should disaster hit.
Attend an El Comité Family Emergency Preparedness Event to make a plan, or call or contact the office for assistance.
Deportation/Planning Manual | Appleseed Foundation
Is Your Attorney Real? How To Avoid Being Scammed
Immigration law is very complex. In Colorado, only licensed attorneys can give legal advice, but every year people lose thousands of dollars to notarios who promise work they are not qualified to do, or scammers who claim to be attorneys, but aren't.
Real attorneys won’t guarantee outcomes in your case, and they won’t charge you for forms, or keep your documents. They can be expensive, but you are buying peace of mind.
Always check to see if the person you want to hire is an actual attorney before giving them any money. Here are three ways to do that:
1) Search an attorney’s name in the Colorado Bar Association’s listings.
2) Search their name in the listings of the American Immigration Lawyer Association.
3) Search their name in the listing of the U.S. District Court of Colorado.
What to do if you see ICE activity?
When you see what you think is, or could be, ICE activity, please report it to the Colorado Rapid Response Network (CORRN). A call to the CORRN hotline will activate volunteers to go to the site and document what is happening. With this documentation, CORNN can dispel rumors and calm fears in the community.
Legal & Advocacy
Immigration Law - Law Firms
Statewide Advocacy Organizations
Basic needs
Family Resource Centers
Family Resource Centers (FRC) are community hubs in Boulder County that provide services for individuals and families to meet their basic needs. Each offers unique types of assistance and serves specific parts of the county. El Comité staff can help you connect with the FRC in your area.
Longmont, CO
303.772.5529
Sister Carmen Community Center
Lafayette, CO
303.665.4342
Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFAA)
Boulder, CO
303.442.3042
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Boulder County Programs
Boulder County Child Support Services helps custodial and non-custodial parents, with an emphasis on working with paying parents so they can support their children.
Food Assistance, SNAP Benefits
SNAP helps qualifying individuals and families buy food.
Employment & Unemployment
A worker is eligible to apply for unemployment benefits if they are (or were) an employee whose employer takes taxes out of your paychecks and reports your income on a W-2 tax form, and they earned at least $2,500 in wages in Colorado in the last 12 months.
The Benefit Recovery Fund offers cash unemployment assistance regardless of immigration status to Colorado workers who recently lost a job.
Other Economic Support
What You Can Do, If Your Employer Won’t Pay You
Wage theft is the failure to pay workers the full wages to which they are legally entitled. Wage theft is illegal, and unfortunately, it is common in Colorado and in Boulder County. El Comité staff can help you get paid.
If you live in, or the unpaid work was done in Denver, you can file a complaint with Denver Labor. Send a letter demanding payment. If no answer is received in 14 days, file a complaint with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.