get involved: donate, volunteer, engage
The work of the Rapid Response Coalition generally falls into 3 primary pillars: Community Defense & Preparation, Detention Solidarity, and Advocacy & Organizing. All of these efforts require YOU: your energy, your skills, your financial support, and more. This list is not exhaustive and will be edited continuously. Please explore these organizations and efforts directly to show up, support and join the movement.
Community defense & preparation
Types of efforts and work include:
Hotline: Reporting & Verifying Immigration Enforcement Activity
ICE Watch Trainings
Know Your Rights Trainings
ICE Check-in Accompaniment
Brake/Tail Light Clinics
Education about legal scams
Power of Attorney Workshops
Youth Passport Workshops
Detention Solidarity
Types of efforts and work include:
Rapid Response Hotline: Detainee locating, Impound Lot negotiation, Communication App support, Access to information
Abide in Love (Phelps, Ste. Genevieve, Greene) Detention PenPals & Commissary Support
Detained Intakes: volunteer attorneys and interpreters meet with detained immigrants to explore opportunities for relief
Pro-bono representation and legal resource referrals
Religious Sisters accompaniment of citizen children to visit detained parents
Immigrant Family Emergency Response (IFER) Fund
Resource referrals and additional support for family members of detained loved ones
Advocacy & Organizing
Types of efforts and work include:
Workplace preparedness trainings
Building groups for community defense training
Ending the police-to-ICE pipeline
Canvassing
Missouri Immigration Policy Coalition
Annual Day at the Capital (Feb. 17, 2026)
Worker & Immigrant Solidarity Actions