The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement began housing what are officially termed "refugee children" in May 2013 at the KidsPeace Broadway campus.

The program is funded by a $3.5 million grant to house children allegedly caught at the Mexican border attempting to cross into the United States.Up to 72 unaccompanied children for up to 45 days were to be housed at five dorm-style residences at the KidsPeace Broadway campus along Broadway in eastern Salisbury Township near the border with the borough of Fountain Hill. Up to 109 youths can be housed at KidsPeace Broadway.Salisbury Township Director of Planning and Zoning Cynthia Sopka and Salisbury Township Manager Randy Soriano said the use of KidsPeace to house the children met the requirements of the township zoning ordinance.Soriano told township commissioners at the May 9, 2013, township meeting that the KidsPeace housing of the children qualified under a special exception in the zoning ordinance."At this juncture, KidsPeace over the years has received permits indicating a host of uses that include group homes," Sopka stated in an email response to a reporter for Salisbury Press following the May 9, 2013, township meeting.Salisbury Township Chief of Police Allen W. Stiles, Sopka and an Eastern Salisbury Township Fire Department official met May 8, 2013, with KidsPeace officials to discuss the housing of youths at the Broadway Campus.Patrick Slattery of the KidsPeace Advancement Department had left a voice mail for Soriano, who spoke with him April 25, 2013, about KidsPeace Broadway housing the youths.Stiles told township commissioners at the May 9, 2013, meeting the youths ranged from 15 to 17 years old. "If the kids leave, then ICE will intervene," Stiles told commissioners.ICE is the acronym for the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Department of Homeland Security."We have been reassured that the federal government was involved. They evaluated the (KidsPeace) site," Sopka told officials.KidsPeace was said to have hired and trained an additional 60 bilingual employees to accommodate the children.According to an April 24, 2013, KidsPeace press release, the Broadway Campus offers "a safe haven for these youth until they can be placed in permanent homes."Services include shelter care for up to 72 unaccompanied children at one time, daily education that will include core subjects, English language education, art, music, health and physical education, and citizenship; counseling from a bilingual master's level clinician; recreation; medical and mental health assessments, and ongoing medical, psychiatric and dental care as needed," Kids Peace Director of Public Relations and Communications Bevin Theodore stated in the April 24, 2013, press release.KidsPeace anticipated an average length of stay to be 45 days, with the goal of moving the children toward reunification with relatives, or when that is not possible, returning them safely to their home countries.KidsPeace was said to be one of the U.S. facilities housing the children. The other two facilities were said to be in Texas.KidsPeace Broadway campus children residences were unoccupied as of 2008 when youths were relocated to KidsPeace Orchard Hills Campus, Orefield, North Whitehall Township, where as many as 200 youths are housed.ORR is in the Office of the Administration for Children & Families in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.According to the Department of Health & Human Services website, "Through its network of caretakers, the Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program helps unaccompanied refugee minors develop appropriate skills to enter adulthood and to achieve social self-sufficiency."