Ensuring Access to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivors, Language Access Hub
The National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP, pronounced new-app) was formed to educate, train, offer technical assistance and public policy advocacy, and conduct research that will assist a wide range of professionals working at the Federal, State, and...
Language Access Hub, Working with Interpreters
Legal Services of New Jersey is a non-profit organization that oversees the coordination of six regional Legal Services programs. Their mission is to provide representation and advice to low-income New Jersey residents in civil legal cases. In this video, you will...
Ensuring Access to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivors, Language Access Hub
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) seeks to achieve equal justice for people living in poverty across Greater Los Angeles. We change lives through direct representation, systems change, and community education. This LAFLA YouTube channel has developed a...
Elder Abuse, Gender-Based Violence, Lifecourse Violence and Help Seeking, Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence, Our Analysis
From the aborting of female fetuses to intimate homicide, girls and women may encounter numerous oppressions during infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and as elders. Some of these are confined to one stage in the lifecycle, some continue into subsequent...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Refugee Survivors
These training slides address the impact of trauma and resettlement challenges on refugee communities; the dynamics of domestic and family violence in refugee populations in the US and how they restrict refugee women’s economic security. Related Resources Making Our...
Elder Abuse, Gender-Based Violence
These training slides from a workshop by API-GBV analyzes elder abuse in the context of abuse over the lifecourse (see the Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence). It enumerates several types of abuses API elders may face, including forced labor and emotional neglect, and...
Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy
This skit is easy to stage and engages any audience. It shows what a difference a friend, a parent, a child, a professional, or a community can make, and contrasts victim-blaming with empowerment. Riwa’s story raises awareness about gender expectations by women...
Child Custody in Domestic Violence Cases, Culturally-Specific Advocacy
These training slides address considerations affecting Asian and other immigrants — including different dynamics of domestic violence, trends in abuse, barriers faced by immigrant and refugee mothers, and gender bias in mediation — and the implications for...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Culture & Gender-Based Violence, Our Analysis
Culture is too hastily understood as ethnic culture, but in fact we all inhabit multiple cultures simultaneously and need to understand which ones we are operating in to be effective. These training slides, authored by Dr. Sujata Warrier, can be used by advocates to...