Louisville Coalition for Immigrant Support
Last updated on October 12, 2025
Louisville Coalition for Immigrant Support
The Louisville Coalition for Immigrant Support (LCIS) was formed to support our immigrant neighbors proactively to prevent crises and reactively to address immediate needs to keep individuals safe and families together.
The coalition includes existing agencies, organizations, and concerned individuals who share information, expertise, and resources to ensure our immigrant neighbors receive fair and just treatment in Jefferson County/Metro-Louisville.
If you or a group you are affiliated with are interested in our work, please click below to request a presentation.
Finding Resources & Emergency Planning
These links and information may change frequently.
Louisville Area Resource Links from LCIS Team
- Directory of service providers/orgs in LCIS (annotated)
- Material support and accompaniment for immigrants
- Legal support
- Medical/Health Support
- 211 Information
Updated October 10, 2025.
Louisville Area Resource Links from LCIS Team
- Directory of service providers/orgs in LCIS (annotated)
- Material support and accompaniment for immigrants
- Legal support
- Medical/Health Support
- 211 Information
Updated October 10, 2025.
Learning More: Finding Training and Preparing for an Emergency
The Louisville Coalition for Immigrant Support, a coalition of Louisville immigrant and refugee supporting organizations, offers free immigration-focused presentations to groups in the Louisville region.
The Louisville Coalition for Immigrant Support, a coalition of Louisville immigrant and refugee supporting organizations, offers free immigration-focused presentations to groups in the Louisville region. If you would like to request an immigration presentation for your group, please complete this form and someone from our coalition will get back to you within two weeks.
Types of training available through LCIS and sister organizations:
- Know Your Rights for Directly Impacted Persons
- Know Your Rights for Community Organizations and Faith Communities
- Know your Rights for Service Providers
- Immigration 101: Overview of Immigration Law and Updates
- Local and Statewide Immigrant Impacts
- Community Defense: How to accompany and keep our neighbors safe
- How to be an Ally: An overview of all the ways to help our immigrant neighbors
Louisville Community Defense Network Training for accompaniment, emergency response, witness and documentation. Contact Louisville Community Defense Network at [email protected].
Training Materials:
- Louisville Latinx Educational Outreach Project lleoky.org/rights - Know Your Rights Resource Hub
- Louisville Metro Police Department Standard Operating Procedures
- Jefferson County Public Schools Policy and Practice Immigration Resources | Jefferson County Public Schools
- ACLU: Know Your Rights - Immigrant Rights Guide
- Information on Warrants and Subpoenas
- Printable Red Card (English, Spanish, and other languages)
- Infographic: Know Your Rights and How to use the Red Card (ENG & SP)
- Flyer: how to use Red Card
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center: Know Your Rights Train the Trainer Toolkit
- Red Cards in a number of languages https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas
- United We Dream: www.unitedwedream.org/resources/know-your-rights/
- We Have Rights: We Have Rights
- Family Preparedness Care Package (California based but much is useful anywhere)
The Louisville Coalition for Immigrant Support, a coalition of Louisville immigrant and refugee supporting organizations, offers free immigration-focused presentations to groups in the Louisville region. If you would like to request an immigration presentation for your group, please complete this form and someone from our coalition will get back to you within two weeks.
Types of training available through LCIS and sister organizations:
- Know Your Rights for Directly Impacted Persons
- Know Your Rights for Community Organizations and Faith Communities
- Know your Rights for Service Providers
- Immigration 101: Overview of Immigration Law and Updates
- Local and Statewide Immigrant Impacts
- Community Defense: How to accompany and keep our neighbors safe
- How to be an Ally: An overview of all the ways to help our immigrant neighbors
Louisville Community Defense Network Training for accompaniment, emergency response, witness and documentation. Contact Louisville Community Defense Network at [email protected].
Training Materials:
- Louisville Latinx Educational Outreach Project lleoky.org/rights - Know Your Rights Resource Hub
- Louisville Metro Police Department Standard Operating Procedures
- Jefferson County Public Schools Policy and Practice Immigration Resources | Jefferson County Public Schools
- ACLU: Know Your Rights - Immigrant Rights Guide
- Information on Warrants and Subpoenas
- Printable Red Card (English, Spanish, and other languages)
- Infographic: Know Your Rights and How to use the Red Card (ENG & SP)
- Flyer: how to use Red Card
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center: Know Your Rights Train the Trainer Toolkit
- Red Cards in a number of languages https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas
- United We Dream: www.unitedwedream.org/resources/know-your-rights/
- We Have Rights: We Have Rights
- Family Preparedness Care Package (California based but much is useful anywhere)
The Need to Know: Policy and Data
These are tools the LCIS team has developed or recommends.
- Jefferson County Public Schools Policy and Practice Immigration Resources | Jefferson County Public Schools
- Louisville Metro Police Department Standard Operating Procedures
- Louisville Jail Dashboard
- Delegation of Immigration Authority Section 287(g) Immigration and Nationality Act | ICE Tracking 287g agreements creating state and local militias.
- Open Source US "Disappeared" Tracker
Additional Resources
- Immigration Policy Tracking Project, This is a project of Professor Lucas Guttentag working with Stanford and Yale law students and a team of leading immigration law experts. The project compiles and organizes every Trump administration immigration policy by topic in a searchable database with underlying source documents.
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center The ILRC trains attorneys, paralegals, and community-based advocates who work with immigrants around the country.
- National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) Their mission To establish and defend the legal rights of immigrants regardless of background and transform the immigration system to one that affords equal opportunity for all.
- Immigrant Defense Project The IDP engages in targeted litigation, primarily before the federal courts, in support of challenges to deportations and other adverse immigration consequences based on criminal convictions and arrests.
- Detention Watch Network A national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, and strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the United States.
- National Immigration Project. https://nipnlg.org/work/resources
Many legal resources including a “Community Explainer” What's Happening With Immigration Court Arrests and Bonds
- Jefferson County Public Schools Policy and Practice Immigration Resources | Jefferson County Public Schools
- Louisville Metro Police Department Standard Operating Procedures
- Louisville Jail Dashboard
- Delegation of Immigration Authority Section 287(g) Immigration and Nationality Act | ICE Tracking 287g agreements creating state and local militias.
- Open Source US "Disappeared" Tracker
Additional Resources
- Immigration Policy Tracking Project, This is a project of Professor Lucas Guttentag working with Stanford and Yale law students and a team of leading immigration law experts. The project compiles and organizes every Trump administration immigration policy by topic in a searchable database with underlying source documents.
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center The ILRC trains attorneys, paralegals, and community-based advocates who work with immigrants around the country.
- National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) Their mission To establish and defend the legal rights of immigrants regardless of background and transform the immigration system to one that affords equal opportunity for all.
- Immigrant Defense Project The IDP engages in targeted litigation, primarily before the federal courts, in support of challenges to deportations and other adverse immigration consequences based on criminal convictions and arrests.
- Detention Watch Network A national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, and strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the United States.
- National Immigration Project. https://nipnlg.org/work/resources
Many legal resources including a “Community Explainer” What's Happening With Immigration Court Arrests and Bonds
Case for Support
Louisville is a more vibrant and resilient city when refugees and immigrants are not only welcomed but also fully embraced and celebrated for their contributions.
LCIS partners with 18 nonprofit organizations in Louisville, all committed to supporting refugees and immigrants through diverse services and initiatives designed to address the growing demand. By empowering established organizations with deep community ties, LCIS ensures efficient and impactful mobilization. This is the core of LCIS’s mission.
LCIS partners with 18 nonprofit organizations in Louisville, all committed to supporting refugees and immigrants through diverse services and initiatives designed to address the growing demand. By empowering established organizations with deep community ties, LCIS ensures efficient and impactful mobilization. This is the core of LCIS’s mission.
