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Empowering Children, Young Adults, and Family Units

Through our comprehensive support program, Acuity has guided thousands through the intricate maze of immigration. We ensure that every individual receives the assistance they need throughout the immigration process.

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Influx Care Facilities & Operations

Acuity has also provided services to unaccompanied children through our ability to stand up and operate influx care facilities in times of need. From 2018 to 2019, Acuity successfully delivered program support of the Emergency Shelter facilities at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, Long Beach, California and Homestead, Florida.

Acuity has a thorough understanding of the complexities and challenges facing unaccompanied children and has developed agile, adaptive processes from intake through discharge, accounting for a multitude of contingency situations.

OUR WRAP-AROUND SERVICES INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING:
  • Staffing and mobilizing over 5,200 trained personnel across 22 labor categories.
  • Scaling up the staffing and services at the Homestead Influx Shelter to increase bed capacity from 1,350 to 2,350 within 30 days of task order modification.
  • Providing food, case management, child and youth counseling services, and medical services by trained, licensed, credentialed, and experienced staff.
  • Providing educational services tailored to the child’s level of development and communications skills, and delivered by highly trained teachers in a planned, structured classroom setting.
  • Housekeeping, and general and medical waste removal
  • Emergency action and evacuations planning
  • Secure, cloud-based data management tools for reporting flexibility

Andreas Stocker came to the United States as an immigrant from Europe. He has a passion for international relations, earning both his undergraduate (West Virginia University) and graduate (Johns Hopkins University) degrees in the discipline. Andreas spent multiple years working as a translator and a paralegal for an international law firm prior to joining the team at Acuity.

"He finds his role as Case Manager “extremely satisfying, being able to have a tangible positive impact on the lives of program participants through interpersonal engagement and targeted case plans.”

Andreas Stocker
Case Manager

Katrina has a BA in Psychology and a passion for working with migrant communities. She lived in Spain for 10 years where she experienced the immigration process firsthand, while learning a new culture and language. In 2020, Katrina moved back to the United States, this time with her husband, a native Colombian, and spent over a year going through the American immigration system to secure his green card. She knows the path to citizenship can be challenging to navigate at any age.

“My favorite thing about being a Case Manager is helping young adults get their feet on the ground, so that they can take practical steps towards a stable future.”

Katrina French
Case Manager