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REFUGEE
CHILDREN CENTER

Offering hope, comfort and love to children seeking refuge from life-threatening violence.

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Mayra Medina-Núñez - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

A Letter from A Survivor

Listen to the story of refugee children displaced from their home country to make their journey to the United States of America and to the important work that the San Fernando Valley Refugee Children Center carries out in assisting these children seeking asylum.

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OUR
PROGRAMS


 

Our programs and services
are organized as follows:
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Assistance in completing immigration questionnaires

(legal intake) and in drafting a statement of facts... Learn More

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Resources for families who experience food insecurity. 

Weekly Food and Basic Needs Relief Program... Learn More

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Our Mission

Our Mission is to provide a healing embrace and a dignified welcome to refugee children and their families who have made the perilous journey from countries South of the U.S.-Mexico border through a holistic approach and empower their transition to a new life in the United States.

Our Vision
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Our Vision

Our Vision is to be a place that offers hope to refugee children and their families in the United States by providing support through a holistic approach for basic needs, opportunities for self-enrichment activities, access to legal and social services, while empowering them through education and an understanding of collaboration.

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Our Story

Pastor Fred Morris came out of retirement to North Hills, California in 2014, to start a new faith community. In July 2015, the San Fernando Valley Refugee Children Center, Inc. was launched with three refugee children and two part-time former staff, Amanda Escobar Romero and Abril Escobar Romero, as a response to the surge of unaccompanied minors arriving in unprecedented numbers at the U.S.-Mexico Border. 

Our Story

Our Events

Every child deserves to have a childhood full of love, peace, basic needs and being safely surrounded by family and loved ones. 

OUR TEAM

OUR TEAM

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Mayra
Medina-Núñez

EXECUTIVE

DIRECTOR

About Mayra, read her story

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CHILDREN & FAMILIES’ DEPARTMENT CO-COORDINATOR

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Frida
Aldapa

OPERATIONS AND VOLUNTEER MANAGER

About Frida, read her story

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Carolyn
Mendoza

PROGRAM MANAGER

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Kendra
Rivera

IMMIGRATION LEGAL RESOURCES

AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

COORDINATOR

About Kendra, read her story

Contact

REFUGEE
CHILDREN CENTER

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CONTACT US

Walk-in Hours: M-F 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

15435 Rayen St, North Hills, CA 91343

Tel: 1 (747) 529-4783

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