Stronger in Solidarity
The Resurrection Project’s ability to deliver on its mission of immigrant justice relies deeply on its robust network of partnerships. These collaborations amplify our impact by connecting us with trusted community organizations, legal experts, and advocates who share our commitment to empowering immigrant families. Together, we pool resources, expertise, and collective action to provide vital services, advance policy changes, and create opportunities that uphold the dignity and rights of immigrants. Our partnerships are the foundation of our strength, enabling us to respond effectively to the evolving challenges faced by the immigrant community.
Illinois Access to Justice
Illinois Access to Justice is an Illinois state-wide program that seeks to mitigate the devastating consequences of all forms of detention, incarceration, family separation and the resulting crippling effects on historically marginalized communities. Through a coalition of community-centered organizations, we are expanding the network of holistic community-based legal services, including direct legal representation and mass legal literacy campaigns led by Community Navigators.
Chicago Legal Protection Fund
The Chicago Legal Protection Fund (LPF) is a citywide initiative supporting organizations that protect and empower immigrants in Chicago. The fund launched in January 2017 to advocate for the more than 180,000 immigrants and their families in Chicago following the 2016 presidential election. In its eighth year, LPF continues to protect and strengthen the Chicago immigrant community through its collaborative model that links 11 community navigator organizations led by The Resurrection Project (TRP) with legal counsel and expertise from the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC).
Community Navigators and legal advocates have prevented hundreds of deportations, kept families together, connected the immigrant community to vital resources, facilitated personal and community growth through leadership development, and paved the way for many undocumented immigrants to adjust their status.
Partner Organizations
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National Immigrant Justice Center
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Indo-American Center
Centro Romero
Haitian American Museum of Chicago
Hana Center
Erie Neighborhood House
The Resurrection Project
United African Organization
Enlace Chicago
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos
Southwest Organizing Project
Northwest Center
Midwest Immigrant Defenders Alliance
The Midwest Immigrant Defenders Alliance (MIDA) is a coalition comprising four organizations that have united to collaboratively provide legal services for people facing deportation before the Chicago immigration court: The Resurrection Project (TRP), the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender (CCPD), the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), and The Immigration Project (TIP).
The goal of the MIDA program is to provide legal representation to all people facing deportation on the Chicago detained docket.
There is no need to call an organization to seek an attorney in the MIDA network, intake is done through the court system. Due to limited resources, unfortunately not everyone will receive an intake, however, if MIDA conducts intake with the detained client, a MIDA organization will be able to represent the client.
