How You Can Help

  • Support organizations offering legal support

  • Mutual aid efforts: purchase gift cards grocery, gas, etc. and donate to schools, religious institutions, orgs that are organizing mutual aid

  • Frequent our city's immigrant owned businesses

  • Frequent local/immigrant owned coffee shops, restaurants - get to know the owners, staff, etc.

Share Financial Resources

Build Community

  • Host/attend community gatherings and invite neighbors that you don’t already know

  • Frequent local coffee shops, restaurants - get to know the owners, staff, etc.

  • Take advantage of our city's immigrant owned businesses

Support Schools

  • Get in touch with the PTO or other parent/caregiver volunteer org at your kids' school/neighborhood school and ask if there is a group organizing to help the school. These are often referred to as "School Support & Safety Teams"

Offer Time

  • Legal aid support: if you are an attorney, consider lending your expertise to a preparedness clinic for vulnerable communities especially if you specialize in real estate or estate planning

  • Mutual aid efforts: everyone has something to offer. Here are a few ways that you can help within your community:

    • Provide transportation/your presence to status appointments for immigrant neighbors,

    • Social workers, therapists, massage therapists, etc. can offer mental health/body work support

    • Home improvement support, mechanic skills, etc.

    • Prep/purchase meals for neighbors who are afraid to leave their homes, are involved in organizing work, or could simply benefit from the kind gesture

Stay Informed

  • Follow Indy Rapid Response and other active efforts on social media

  • Educate yourself on the issues

  • Attend film screenings that tell the story of those impacted

Show Up

  • Attend a training and/or event that speaks to you

  • Reach out to your legislators

  • Advocate at your place of work, your school, your place of worship

  • Have the hard conversations with friends and family