Disaster Recovery Programs and Your Rights

A Guide for Immigrant Families

When disaster strikes, immigrant families are often left out of recovery operations because of lack of language access, confusion about eligibility, and concerns about engagement with Department of Homeland Security staff. Everyone has a right to emergency response and should have access to support to recover.

PIF and partners have developed a one-page flier that helps immigrant families navigate access to disaster response and recovery programs, addressing specific concerns about eligibility, immigration status, and mixed-status families.

All materials are meant to be adapted to your use – add a logo, navigation contact information, and/or personalize the information to best reach your community. The tools include a basic “print-and-go” flier, and social media samples and graphic images.

Materials are available in 9 languages: Arabic, Simplified Chinese, English, French, Haitian Creole, Korean, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese

• Disaster Recovery Programs and Your Rights: A Guide for Immigrant Families
• Disaster Recovery Social Media Samples and Graphics

The materials are available as “read-only.” To create a working copy you can edit:

• Hover over the File menu
• Hover over Make a copy, then click on Entire presentation
• Choose name, folder, and sharing settings you like and click OK
• With any of these items that you use, adapt, or personalize, we encourage you to share your final products with PIF! Please share any examples with us by emailing alicia@pifcoalition.org.