Unaccompanied Refugee Minors

The CDSS Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) program provides culturally and linguistically appropriate child welfare, foster care and independent living services to minors who do not have parents in the United States (U.S.), or who enter the U.S. unaccompanied by a parent, an immediate adult relative or an adult having documentable legal evidence of custody of the minor.  Refugee children who enter the U.S. with family, but later experience a family breakdown may be eligible for the URM program.