Featured, Language Access, Interpretation, and Translation, New, News and Events
A Language Justice approach allows agencies to engage diverse organizations, local communities, stakeholders, and victims/survivors in anti-violence initiatives, placing everyone on equal footing through interpretation, translation, and other strategies for equal...
Featured, Immigration, New
Community-based crime victim advocacy programs that provide services to undocumented immigrant survivors of crimes can minimize risks to their program, funding, employees, and clients by adopting and following policies that take the laws on harboring undocumented...
Domestic Violence, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, New, News and Events
Demographic data, statistics, and resources on domestic violence, sexual assault, and other forms of abuse in Hmong communities Related Resources Defining an Effective Response to DVSA in American Samoa By American Samoa Alliance Against Domestic & Sexual Violence...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, Immigration
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a final rule, published in the Federal Register on August 14, 2019, which significantly changes longstanding policy about the meaning and application of the “public charge” inadmissibility provisions of...
Featured, Immigration, New, News and Events
NOTICE & COMMENT PERIOD DEADLINE: July 9, 2019 Submit a comment The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) proposed regulations that change longstanding policy relating to immigration status verification requirements and disallowing those ineligible for...
Featured, Immigration, New, News and Events, Research and Data
In May 2019, a coalition of national organizations gathered feedback from nearly six hundred advocates and attorneys from across the United States, learning that many immigrant victims of domestic and sexual violence are now too afraid to call the police or go to...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement, Featured
By dint of their immigrant, refugee, and/or other historically marginalized identities, API survivors face barriers that are compounded by socio-cultural factors such as economics, immigration status, culture, religion, systems failure, homophobia, victim-blaming...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Domestic Violence, Featured, New, News and Events
To address the domestic violence dynamics and trends in API communities, advocates have designed programs based on an intimate knowledge of their communities and the needs of API survivors. This webinar identifies the differing dynamics and current domestic violence...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, Immigration, Sexual Violence
Related Resources UPDATED Advisory: Are Victim Services Programs Liable for Criminal “Harboring” When they Work with Immigrant Survivors of Crime? 2019 Technical Assistance Brief / TipsheetThis Advisory answers common questions about providing shelter and...
