1. Strategy on Prevention and Assistance to Unaccompanied Repatriated Migrant Boys, Girls, and Adolescents Community Leaders Regional Seminar on Integration Policies for Immigrants, Refugees, and Returned Migrants Lic. María Cecilia Landerreche Gómez Morin National System for Comprehensive Family Development San José, Costa Rica, Feb. 22-23, 2012

2. Contents Legal Framework Public Policy on Prevention and Assistance to Unaccompanied Repatriated Migrant Boys, Girls, and Adolescents Strategy in Places of Origin Community Leader Project Background and Objective of the Community Leader Project Community Leader Training Methodology Efforts Oriented Toward Strengthening Prevention Actions

3. Legal Framework Law on Refugees and Complementary Protection Social Assistance Law Convention on the Rights of the Child Immigration Law

4. Inter-institutional Dialogue Group

5. Three Areas of Public Policy Northern Border: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas Places of Origin: Sinaloa, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Puebla, Michoacán, Tlaxcala, Mexico, and Guerrero Southern Border – Transit regions and places of origin –: Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco, and Chiapas

6. Strategy in Places of Origin Objectives Achieving restoration of universal rights Developing an sense of belonging Avoiding migration through prevention and assistance

7. Strategy in Places of Origin How? Personalized follow-up on unaccompanied repatriated boys, girls, and adolescents in their own communities. Strengthening and establishing Child Protection Centres in key states of origin where Comprehensive Family Development (DIF) institutional services are provided. Community Leaders

8. The Community Leader Project

9. Background and Objectives Líderes Comunitarios (Community Leaders) promotes the direct participation of repatriated migrant boys, girls, and adolescents – or who are at risk of migrating – to implement strategies enabling them to become rooted in their communities.

10. Community Leader Training Methodology Education for peace and human rights Rights of the Child Participation of children

11. Strategies A safe summer at home Education scholarships, family and transportation grants Workshops: Migrant boys and girls travelling alone. Responding, a moral emergency. Community Leaders

12. “Let us lay the groundwork for a homeland that is more and more orderly and generous, so that one day our people do not need to migrate for economic reasons”. Lic. Margarita Zavala