Summary
Organization name
Casa de Paz
other names
Casa de Paz Colorado
2012
Tax id (EIN)
81-2239384
Category
Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
PO Box 111351Aurora, CO 80042
Adams County, CO, US
BACKGROUND
On average, over 1,200 people daily are detained in the ICE Contract Detention Facility in Aurora, Colorado and subjected for months, or even years, to the hardships of immigration detention. Every week, individuals are released directly into the community with nothing but the items they were detained with and their most essential documents, and tasked with journeying home to anywhere in the United States.
WHAT WE DO
Casa de Paz is a local, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advocating for all of the newcomers, asylum seekers, immigrant neighbors and family members directly impacted by the privatized detention facility in Aurora.
Our programs attempt to ease the isolation that detention creates through letter writing and visitation, ensure that everyone released is provided with basic, human necessities and the means to travel home, and prevent detention altogether by facilitating community rights education and advocacy. Through these efforts, our hope is to give everyone the chance to feel welcome and to be treated in the humane, dignified way that all people deserve.
In 2023, we welcomed over 4,400 people released from the detention facility from over 63 different countries. Since 2012, we have welcomed over 20,000 people from over 83 different countries!
We kindly ask that you consider donating to Casa de Paz and helping us meet our $60,000 goal. We are the only organization in Colorado that does this type of work.
Thank you!
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Mission
Casa de Paz welcomes recently released newcomers, Asylum seekers, and immigrants; we facilitate their next steps towards reunifications with loved ones in a dignifying way.
Background Statement
Casa de Paz (Casa) is a nonprofit organization located in Aurora, CO. Our goal is to assist folks upon being released from the immigrant detention center in Aurora & ease the isolation that immigrant detention brings.
Casa de Paz began in a one bedroom apartment back in 2012. Casa de Paz is now a ten minute walk from the detention center where folks have a safe space to make arrangements to make it onto their next destination. During our first 9 years we welcomed a little over 3,300 guests. In the last four and a half years, we have welcomed nearly over 19,000 guests from over 82 countries released from immigrant detention.
Casa de Paz is the only organization in Colorado to do this work and we do it with pride. 71% of individuals in detention have no criminal record and are simply seeking asylum.
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Aurora, CO 80042