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.
Topics
Covered
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Legal rights of trafficking
victims and domestic violence survivors
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Developing community-based organizations
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Organizing immigrant survivors
of domestic violence and sexual assault
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Promoting the framework for
cultural competency to improve accessible services
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Establishing partnerships and
collaborations to respond to domestic violence, sexual assault and
trafficking
Types
of Technical Assistance
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Framework for cultural competency
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Leadership and capacity of survivors
and community members
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Provision of multi-lingual resource
materials , training materials on organizing and power point presentations
on trafficking
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Referrals to immigrant rights,
battered immigrant women's advocates, immigration lawyers in each
state who can respond on cases of domestic violence and immigration
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Basic information on the various
immigration relief available to survivors of domestic violence, sexual
assault and trafficking, specifically on VAWA, U and T visas
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Workshops on understanding and
practicing cultural competency
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Training for immigrant survivors
and community members on providing peer-to-peer support
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Training for diverse communities
on organizing and educating on violence against women
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Training on understanding and
responding to trafficking victims of domestic violence and sexual
assault
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Training for health care professionals
and their role in working with immigrant survivors
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