A Quick Guide to Immigrant Eligibility for Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Key Federal Means-tested Programs
This chart provides information on which public assistance services are available to immigrant women, including undocumented immigrants.
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Public Benefits Access for Battered Immigrant Women and Children
This chapter explains the eligibility of battered immigrants for public benefits and how immigrant status affects that eligibility.
Riding Tandem on the Pathway to Prevention: Ohio's experience collaboratively preventing intimate partner and sexual violence
This paper discusses the advantages and challenges of conjoining the issues of intimate partner violence and sexual violence for the purposes of simultaneously advancing primary prevention.
VAWA 2013 and TVPRA: What Practitioners Need to Know
The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA 2013), combined with the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), was signed into law on March 7, 2013. This practice advisory provides an overview of substantive changes and technical fixes both in VAWA and TVPRA as well as practice pointers for attorneys and advocates on how to work with these new changes.
Self-Petitioning Under the Violence Against Women Act
This chapter was originally written for the book, Family-Based Immigration Law: A Lawyers Guide (July 2013), published by the D.C. Bar Continuing Legal Education Program.