Gender-Based Violence, New, News and Events, Trafficking
January 22, 2020 | 9:00 – 10:30 am HT / 11:00 am – 12:30 pm PT / 1:00 – 2:30 pm CT / 2:00 – 3:30pm ET Presented by: Chic Dabby, Executive Director The very definition of trafficking describing actions-means-purposes locates potential sources of...
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...
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...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement, Limited English Proficient (LEP) Survivors, New
Limited English proficiency not only affects survivors’ ability to get help, but also employment, housing, benefits, health and mental health care, and to advocate for social and educational services for their children – factors compounding the vulnerability of, and...
Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement, New, News and Events, Pacific Islanders
By American Samoa Alliance Against Domestic & Sexual ViolenceA quantitative and qualitative comparison of the service provision and overall response to domestic violence and sexual assault in American Samoa. This project examines the gaps between what services are...
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...
