The
National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant
Women seeks to challenge and eliminate all forms
of oppression and discrimination against immigrant
women facing violence by empowering them to
build better lives of their choice.
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The
National Network to End Violence Against
Immigrant
Women is a coalition of survivors, immigrant
women, advocates, activists, attorneys,
educators,
and other professionals committed to ending
violence against immigrant women by:
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Working
with diverse immigrant communities
to prevent
violence against women.
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Building
capacity for immigrant women to
become leaders
against all forms of violence.
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Promoting
an understanding of the complex
realities
of immigrant women facing violence.
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Providing
technical and training support to
service
providers, attorneys, community advocates,
and other professionals (both governmental
and non-governmental) working with immigrant
women at the local, state, federal,
and
international levels.
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Increasing
public awareness, education, and
understanding
of issues around violence against women,
and in particular, immigrant women.
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Promoting
law and public policy reforms at
the local,
state, and national levels that benefit
immigrant women facing violence
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Sharing
best practices throughout the network
locally,
nationally, and globally.
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The
Network works to improve the lives of immigrant
women who are victims of domestic violence,
sexual assault and trafficking in a variety
of different ways, including:
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Organizing
national and/or regional conferences
each
year. The
next national conference is early November
2007. The Network conference attracts attendees
from
many sectors
including
domestic
violence
and sexual assault victim advocates, legal
service providers, immigration,
family law
and domestic violence attorneys, immigrant
survivors, health care and social
services
providers and government officials. This
interactive conference provides
the opportunity
to learn, share and collaborate to improve
legal options and access to justice
and
services for immigrant victims. This conference
includes many attendees who are
grantees
of the Office of Violence Against Women
of the Department of Justice. For
registration
information for the Network's upcoming
conferences please visit our Events
page
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Providing
technical assistance to advocates, attorneys,
social services providers, justice system
personnel, grassroots immigrant survivors
programs, immigrant community based organizations,
health care providers and others working
to help immigrant victims of domestic violence,
sexual assault and trafficking. The Network
offers technical assistance to professionals
supporting work on individual cases as well
as technical assistance on advocacy strategies
to improve treatment of immigrant survivors
by the justice, social services, benefits
and health care systems.
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Developing
training materials and serving as
faculty for training immigration and family lawyers,
justice system personnel, domestic
violence
and sexual assault advocates, Department
of Homeland Security and Department
of Justice
personnel, government workers, and health
care providers on the legal rights
of immigrant
survivors of violence. For
more info
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Enhancing
legal options for immigrant survivors by
securing the passage and implementation
of federal legislation including the 1994
and 2000 Violence Against Women Acts (VAWA)
which included immigration protections for
immigrant survivors of domestic violence,
sexual assault, trafficking and other crimes,
legal services access for battered immigrants
in 1997 and public benefits access for battered
immigrants including those who are VAWA
eligible.
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Advocating
with government officials to ensure that
federal, state and local justice, benefits,
social services and health care systems
treat immigrant women and children with
respect and affords them all the benefits
intended by Congress.
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Developing
multilingual outreach materials for
victims. To
access these materials visit:
ASISTA
FVPF
Legal Momentum
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Developing
projects to expand access to services for
immigrants living in rural areas
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Expanding
access to shelter and housing for immigrant
victims.
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Supporting
the work of local advocates
and attorneys to improve treatment of and protection for
immigrant victims by the family and criminal
courts.
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The
National Network to End Violence Against
Immigrant Women (Network), founded
in 1992, is a broad-based coalition
of more than five hundred organizations
and individuals that advocate. provide
services, and offer assistance to immigrant
victims of domestic violence, sexual
assault, and trafficking.
The
Network is co-chaired by the Family
Violence Prevention Fund, The Immigrant
Women Program of Legal Momentum (formerly
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund),
and ASISTA Immigration Technical Assistance
Project. The three co-chair organizations
contribute
their special expertise and experience
to the technical assistance, training
and advocacy leadership the Network
provides.
The
Family Violence Prevention Fund specializes
in promoting community-based strategies
to respond and prevent violence against
immigrant women. As such, FVPF focuses
on building capacity and leadership
of immigrant women from diverse communities,
training on cultural competency for
service providers, law enforcement
and advocates and the development and
dissemination of culturally and linguistically
appropriate resource materials.
Legal
Momentum specializes in issues that
arise for immigrant victims in family
law, justice system, benefits, housing,
trafficking, sexual assault, and immigration
cases.
ASISTA
Immigration Technical Assistance Project
specializes in intermediate and advanced
immigration
law issues.
The
Network has undertaken numerous projects
that address the needs of battered
immigrant women and children and immigrant
survivors of sexual assault and trafficking.
Through a collaborative approach, the
Network has made great progress in
assuring that non-citizen victims of
domestic violence, sexual assault,
and trafficking are able to flee abuse,
survive crimes and receive assistance.
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THE
NATIONAL NETWORK ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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The
National Network is directed by the 3 co-chair
organizations, the Family Violence Prevention
Fund, The Immigrant Women Program of Legal
Momentum
(formerly NOW Legal Defense and
Education Fund) and ASISTA Immigration
Technical Assistance Project, supported
by a National Advisory Committee with members
representing
diverse disciplines, backgrounds,
and immigrant communities.
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