Home Is Here is a small growth-stage nonprofit organization that cultivates systems of support with and for newly arriving immigrants in the Gulf South, focused on those impacted by detention. We aim to build multiracial networks of solidarity and alternative community infrastructure with immigrants who arrive without family or support and are criminalized, incarcerated, and excluded from government-funded systems. Our work centers on organizing and capacity-building in the areas that newly arriving immigrants say they value most: Legal Aid, Housing, and Community Relationships. As a young grassroots organization, we value relationships, experimentation, and finding alternative solutions to best support community. 

Our programming:

1) Connects newly arriving immigrants with community to get them released from detention;

2) Organizes community members to build the infrastructure newly arriving immigrants need - including housing, legal aid, and a community of care;

3) Grows grassroots capacity for: learning and info-sharing, partnership/shared resources, fundraising, program development, and coordinating spaces for building power.