Training materials

This section provides webinars and other training materials for immigration lawyers, advocates, and service providers. These resources include guidance for domestic violence prevention in immigrant communities and for providing effective services to immigrant survivors who experience domestic violence. Information about legal options and public benefits is also included but since these periodically change, they may be dated. Please consult the organizations listed at the end of this special collection to verify the accuracy of the available information.

Training for Advocates and Attorneys on Trauma Informed Work with Immigrant Women

This is a hands-on training for advocates and attorneys on trauma-informed work with immigrant women who are survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Immigration 101: A Webinar for Domestic Violence Victim Advocates

This webinar provides domestic violence victim advocates with a basic overview of the immigration system, including information about recent updates and immigration protections for victims of abuse.

Enhanced Safety Planning for Immigrant Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence

This webinar offers guidance for advocates on how to help immigrant survivors become aware of their rights; identify immigration remedies for victims, including special VAWA provisions around confidentiality; prepare enhanced safety plans for immigrant survivors; and increase meaningful access to services for immigrants and survivors with limited English proficiency.

Enhanced Safety Planning for Immigrant Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence

This webinar offers guidance to advocates for implementing enhanced safety planning for immigrant survivors, including discussing recent policy developments and new enforcement measures that should be taken into consideration when assisting immigrant survivors with safety planning.

ABC's of Language Access Advocacy

This webinar discusses language access requirements for courts, law enforcement, health care, and benefits providers and highlights best practices for language access advocacy for limited English proficient (LEP) survivors with these agencies.

Making Domestic Violence Services Accessible to Individuals with Limited English Proficiency: A Planning Tool for Advocacy Organizations

This toolkit bridges the gap between the laws, rules, and standards of services; and the effort necessary - community assessments, program policy, staff training, etc. - to develop and implement language access services for survivors with limited English proficiency (LEP).

VAWA Confidentiality and Protections for Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence

This webinar provides information to judges and court staff about how state court proceedings and federal VAWA confidentiality protections intersect.

Advocates' Introduction to Gender-Based Asylum

This webinar describes immigration protections and benefits available through gender-based asylum for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Helping Those Released from Family Detention: Asylum Options for Immigrant Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence

This webinar series is for attorneys, accredited representatives, domestic and sexual violence advocates, mental health service providers and social workers already familiar with VAWA and U visas to help women and children released from family detention centers.

Immigration Relief for Vulnerable Populations: Human Trafficking, Crime Victims, Domestic Violence and Child Abuse

This PowerPoint presentation offers an overview of the U-Visa, T-Visa, and VAWA self-petitioning process for survivors of violence who don't have legal immigration status.

Justice for All: How Attorneys Can Successfully Win Custody Cases for Immigrant Survivors When There Is a Clash of Laws, Cultures, Custody and Parental Rights

This resource provides an overview of family law options for immigrants and immigrant victims, with a particular focus on how to address and respond effectively when immigration status, language access and other issues intersect in family court cases involving immigrants.

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