About Us
Each Step Home is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization fighting for all children harmed by America’s immigration policies.
Our work is wide-ranging and evolves to meet the needs of children and families whose lives are dramatically shaped by our country’s constantly shifting immigration policies.
Since 2025, ICE has detained over 8,755 children with their families in deplorable conditions, 562 of them babies and toddlers (The Marshall Project). Reports from ICE detention include worms in food, dirty water that causes stomachaches, and restless nights under fluorescent lights that never fully turn off. Many families, desperate for clean water and better food for their children, rely on what they can afford to buy at the commissary.
Family separations are increasing. Over 145,000 U.S. citizen children have been separated from a parent, and over 22,000 U.S. citizen children have been separated from both parents. At least 4.6 million U.S. citizen children are living with a parent at risk of deportation (The Brookings Institution).
When a parent is detained, ICE takes their phone away, and their only option to call their family is to buy “minutes” from the detention center. Many parents don’t know if or when they’ll be going home. Because connecting detained parents to their children is a lifeline, we fund phone calls from detained parents to their families. We also manage the logistics and fees to help their children get passports, a critical step in keeping families together when parents are deported.
The atrocities inflicted on young children are committed by our government, in our name, and on our watch. We cannot look away. We cannot allow this to happen anymore. Together, we can build a nation of which we can all be proud: one that welcomes and protects vulnerable children. It’s up to us to demand better policies that protect each and every child.
A special thanks to our wonderful partners, as well as our hundreds of dedicated volunteers. We could not do our work without their dedication and support.
What we do
We support and protect children and families whose mental and physical wellbeing is being threatened by an inhumane immigration system.
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We do whatever is necessary to get children released from government custody and back to the families who love them.
Our work includes:
- Supporting the release of whole family units from family detention centers
- Filling commissary accounts of parents and families in ICE detention centers help buy clean water, food children will actually eat, medicine, toiletries, and phone calls to lawyers and loved ones
- Facilitating communication between parents in detention and their children
- Helping parents obtain passports for their children – often an urgent requirement to keep a family together – including finding and funding notaries, expedited passport fees, and logistics
- Providing immediate needs upon release from detention like transportation and phones
- Providing advocacy and family assistance to expedite release of children from government custody
- Supporting transportation costs for reunifications when children or parents are released from government custody
- Helping prospective sponsors complete the required application paperwork
- Arranging transportation to help families comply with the terms of their immigration proceedings
- Working to return deported children to their families in the United States
- Assisting families in countries of origin to locate their children who have come to or been deported from the United States.
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We do this work in partnership with community and national civil rights organizations.
Our work includes:
- Securing legal counsel for case management and ongoing consultation
- Providing child and family cases for national class action lawsuits
- Launching public campaigns to demand resolution of the suffering of specific families and children
- Sponsoring and joining in campaigns which push for systemic change and policy initiatives supporting the protection of asylum
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In partnership with research centers and universities, we create data-driven media, articles, and presentations.
Our work includes:
- Offering experience and expert opinions to journalists from major news outlets
- Publishing fact-based, experience informed articles
- Providing a newsletter with up-to-date information on national trends, new policies and their impact, and specific cases
- Offering a library of scholarly and journalistic work describing the impact of immigration policy on children and families
Who We Are
Our Core Team
Casey Revkin
Executive Director & Co-Founder
Meghan Finn
Managing Director & Co-Founder
Micaela Coiro
Case Manager
Holly Sewell
Immigrant Family Advocate
Brian Swibel
Board Member
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Casey Revkin
Executive Director & Co-Founder
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Meghan Finn
Managing Director & Co-Founder
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Micaela Coiro
Case Manager
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Holly Sewell
Immigrant Family Advocate
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Brian Swibel
Board Member
Contact Us
If you would like to learn more about any of our initiatives or making a donation, please contact us.
General inquiries for families and advocates
Text or call (323) 334-0444
Email: hello@eachstephome.org
Media inquiries
Text or call: (323) 334-0444
Email: media@eachstephome.org