Resources

  • Bisexual Crime Victims: Least Visible, Most at Risk

    Bisexuals make up the most significant part of the LGBTQ community, yet are the most invisible and have some of the highest rates of victimization. The myth that they have “the best of both worlds,” often makes invisible the reasons...
  • The Impact of Violence, Trauma, and Racial Oppression on Survivors

    From a practitioner who directly works and identifies as a Native American women, Nicole Mathews provides an understanding of the complexity and various forms of violence experienced by historically marginalized communities, strategies for intervention, and intersectional responses being employed by...
  • Language Access for Law Enforcement

    Leslye Orloff, Director of the National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP) and Wendy Lau, with the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence lead an insightful conversation based on the recommended practices from the Department of Justice, key elements of language...
  • Language Access Bank

    Ayuda, a legal and victim service organization in the Washington, DC area, applied for grant funding to run a centralized language service. It currently handles the language access needs of more than 90 nonprofits in the area. Their program combines...
  • Ordinary Magic: Working with Survivors of Violence

    Resilience builds our ability to overcome risk, oppression and adversity to succeed in life. Researchers have been studying resilience for about 50 years and find that resilience is everywhere. It only takes ordinary interactions to help build or bolster the...
  • Healing Informed Care for Survivors from Historically Marginalized Communities

    As a way to re-release years of trauma-based on sexual assault, domestic violence, and other traumas– Zoe Flowers from WOCN, INC. shares her body, mind, and spirit connection techniques drawn from decades of experience as a trauma practitioner and healer....
  • Language Access for Advocates

    This webinar will discuss lessons learned and experiences from the field around ensuring meaningful and effective communication with all survivors, with a special focus on situations that involve multiple language needs, languages of limited diffusion and scarce resources. Presenters will...
  • Language Access Accountability: Experiences from a New York Community

    How can we hold the police accountable? Cecilia Gaston, former Executive Director of Violence Intervention Program in New York, will share lessons learned from the process of keeping New York Police Department accountable on their language access obligations, their legal...
  • Centering the Voices of Latinx Survivors: Engagement vs. Outreach

    The number-two reason why survivors continue to be undeserved is lack of trust, as identified in our National Resource Center for Reaching Victims field survey of over 1,900 agencies. Casa de Esperanza shares this vital and useful Fuerza Unida tool...
  • Language Access for Lawyers and Criminal Justice Professionals

    Has your agency developed and implemented a language access plan to ensure meaningful access to everyone in your community? Are there assessments and protocols in place to ensure the selection of qualified interpreters and translators? Providing language access is not...