APRIL IS
SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH
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Weekly Update from the National Latin@ Network
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Blog
Policy Alert
NLN News
Network News and Resources
Network Webinars
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TE INVITO: HOW STRONG MEN CAN INFLUENCE OTHER MEN AND BE A ROLE MODEL FOR BOYS
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The following information comes from Casa de Esperanza’s
Te Invito campaign
, a toolkit of resources and information to encourage Latino men and boys to prevent domestic violence. It is connected with self-reflection because as an ally, men really need to know themselves. It takes a lot of strength to be a good ally, but not the kind of strength that men usually learn about in society. This blog has information from
Te Invito
on how to positively influence other men and be a role model for men and boys.
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VAWA REAUTHORIZATION BILL PASSES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WITH BIPARTISAN SUPPORT
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This morning, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1585, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019, with bipartisan support. Casa de Esperanza as part of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda and the National Task Force Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, has worked alongside advocates across the country to raise awareness with lawmakers about the much-needed enhanced provisions to VAWA.
In addition to ensuring important pathways to safety, justice, and well-being for all survivors, including immigrant survivors, LGBTQ survivors, and those from other marginalized or underserved communities, the VAWA Reauthorization Act of 2019 (HR 1585) includes moderate yet important enhancements that reflect many identified needs to continue to improve access to intervention and prevention services. The bill, among other things, provides increased resources to implement and expand effective prevention and assistance programs for youth; provides improved implementation and coverage of federal firearms laws to reduce domestic and dating violence homicides; offers improved protections for survivors in federal public, subsidized, and assisted housing; supports victims and survivors who need assistance rebuilding financially; improves provisions to enhance access to safety for Native survivors on Tribal land; and improves the healthcare response to domestic violence and sexual assault.
We applaud Representatives Karen Bass and Brian Fitzpatrick for their bipartisan leadership and support. We also applaud the many Democrats and Republicans who voted in favor of supporting victims and survivors of violence. Today’s victory is a testament to advocates’ tireless efforts to mobilize and educate lawmakers to ensure that victims’ and survivors’ needs are being fully addressed. We now call on the Senate to pass similar legislation so that those experiencing violence can access necessary resources for their well-being and safety, and so that we can improve prevention efforts.
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Seminarios web sobre el acceso lingüístico en español con NRC
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El Centro Nacional de Recursos para el Alcance a Víctimas (NRC) es una institución totalmente comprometida con el acceso lingüístico y su objetivo es relacionar a los proveedores de habla hispana con herramientas, apoyo y capacitación en español.
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31 de mayo
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Podcast interviewing Patti Tototzintle, CEO of Casa de Esperanza
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To kick off season two of Conversations Over a Cafecito, we talk to Casa de Esperanza's CEO, Patti Tototzintle for a special recognition of Women's History Month. Patti talks about her history with Casa de Esperanza, what she's learned over her time working in the movement to end violence, and who she looks to for inspiration.
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Network News and Resources
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SAAM 2019 resources and materials to raise awareness
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Resources include:
- factsheets
- posters
- social media graphics
- coloring pages
- supplies
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Registration open for Pre-Health Conference & Recruitment Fair
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The National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) will be hosting a
FREE
Pre-Health Conference & Recruitment Fair on
Saturday, April 13, 2019, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City
. The NHMA College Health Scholars Program Metro DC Area Pre-Health Conference & Recruitment Fair is open to
all
undergraduate students and pre-health advisors.
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Early bird pricing for Voices in Action available until April 15
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Voices in Action, NCADV's upcoming 2019 conference, will focus attention on issues such as health and domestic violence, intersections of "isms," advanced advocacy skills, human rights, youth, engaging men, culture, and more.
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Deadline for 2019 Bush Prize open until April 11
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The Bush Prize celebrates organizations with a track record of successful community problem solving. These organizations are extraordinary not only in what they do, but how they do it.
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Latina researchers publish article about serving Latina survivors
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The article that published in the Journal of Family Violence is titled "
Well-Being of Latina Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault Receiving Trauma-Informed and Culturally Specific Services
" by Josephine Serrata, Rebecca Rodriguez, Janice Castro, and Martha Hernandez-Martinez.
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Complaint helps uncover systemic injustice in El Paso
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This complaint highlights systemic due process violations that are undermining justice for detained immigrants called before judges at the El Paso Service Processing Center (SPC) Immigration Court. The complaint draws from court observations of hundreds of immigration hearings, several sworn statements from legal practitioners appearing before the El Paso SPC Immigration Court, standing orders used by the Immigration Judges, and more.
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Jane Joe, Inc. launches new website, Healing Trauma
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JDI is thrilled to announce the launch of
janedoe.org/healingtrauma
, a unique new resource for advocates in the sexual and domestic violence field, service providers in other professions, health care providers, policymakers, and anyone interested in deepening their understanding of the impact of individual, vicarious, organizational, and historical trauma and oppression and how to foster resilience.
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Call for workshop proposals for 2020 International Conference open
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End Violence Against Women International (EVAWI) invites proposals for presentations to be given at its international conference, which promotes innovative techniques and promising practices. We are seeking proposals for workshop presentations that meet its mission
and the conference objectives.
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Preserving the Right to Parent: Custody Issues for Survivors with Disabilities
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April 16, 2019
2 - 3:30 p.m. EST
This webinar will provide an overview of some of the unique difficulties survivors with disabilities may face in child custody and welfare cases - and provide suggestions for improvements to the system to ensure that survivors with disabilities are not separated from their children because of their disability.
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Serving Human Trafficking Survivors: An Introduction for Domestic Violence Organizations
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April 17, 2019
1 p.m. EST
The National Human Trafficking Hotline (NHTH), operated by Polaris, will join NCADV to explore the intersection of domestic violence and human trafficking. The presentation will help prepare domestic violence professionals who encounter survivors of human trafficking.
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Registration open for One-Day CLE Skills Seminar on
Preventing Removals of Survivors
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May 16, 2019
Austin, TX
Panels will address avoiding discretionary Denials of Fee Waivers, Inadmissibility Waivers, and Adjustment of Status Applications for U and T Survivors, and more.
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The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
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By:
Óscar Martínez
One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America and across the US border. More than a quarter of a million Central Americans make this increasingly dangerous journey each year, and each year as many as 20,000 of them are kidnapped.
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OVW Fiscal Year 2019 Grants to Tribal Governments to Exercise Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction Solicitation
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Deadline
April 11
Through this grant program, Indian tribes receive support and technical assistance for planning and implementing changes in their criminal justice systems necessary to exercise special domestic violence criminal jurisdiction (SDVCJ) and funds to exercise the jurisdiction. The program encourages collaborations among tribal leadership, courts, prosecutors, attorneys, defenders, law enforcement, probation, victim services providers, and other partners to ensure that victims find safety and justice and that non-Indians who commit crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, and violations of protection orders in the Indian Country of the tribe are held accountable.
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OVW Fiscal Year 2019 Research and Evaluation ***UPDATED*** Solicitation
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Deadline EXTENDED TO
April 11
The purpose of the Research and Evaluation (R&E) Initiative is to research and evaluate approaches to combatting domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. By generating more knowledge about strategies for serving victims and holding offenders accountable, communities that benefit from VAWA funding will be better equipped to align their work with practices that are known to be effective, and they will be more capable of generating empirical knowledge on the efficacy of new and promising ways of doing things. R&E is designed to support researcher-practitioner partnerships and a broad range of research and evaluation methods, including qualitative, mixed-method, and quasi-experimental, and experimental designs. Because OVW has very limited funds to support research and evaluation, this initiative prioritizes topics for which a stronger evidence base would help OVW grantees use federal funds most effectively.
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OVW Fiscal Year 2019 Sexual Assault Services Formula Program
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Deadline
April 24
The Sexual Assault Services Formula Program (SAS Formula Program) was created by the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005, as amended by the technical amendments to that Act. The SAS Formula Program directs grant dollars to states and territories to assist them in supporting rape crisis centers and other nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations or tribal programs that provide direct intervention and related assistance to victims of sexual assault, without regard to age. For additional information about this program see
https://www.justice.gov/ovw/grant-programs and
http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/vawamei/saspformulamain.htm.
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OVW Fiscal Year 2019 STOP Formula Grant Program
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Deadline
May 8
The Services * Training * Officers * Prosecutors (STOP) Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program (STOP Formula Grant Program) supports communities, including American Indian Tribes and Alaska Native villages, in their efforts to develop and strengthen effective responses to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
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Deadline
May 9
Funds are now available to support the development and operation of nonprofit, nongovernmental tribal domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions.
Eligible applicants are limited to: recognized tribal coalitions and organization(s) determined by OVW to be qualified to apply to incorporate and operate a tribal coalition in areas where Indian tribes are located but no tribal coalition exists.
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OVW Fiscal Year 2019 State and Territorial Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Coalitions Program Solicitation
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Deadline
May 10
This grant program supports the critical work of state and territorial domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions and is a set-aside program under OVW’s STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program. These organizations play an important role in advancing the goal of ending domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. This program also includes a statutory set aside from the Sexual Assault Services Program (SASP), specifically for state and territorial sexual assault coalitions (34 U.S.C. § 12511(d)).
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Deadline
May 14
Funds are now available to support a national clearinghouse that provides training and technical assistance on issues relating to sexual assault of American Indian and Alaska Native women.
Eligible applicants are limited to: national, tribal, statewide or other nonprofit organizations with the capacity to provide nationwide training and technical assistance; and institutions of higher education.
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Hola Cultura: Program Manager
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The Program Manager (“PM”) coordinates, facilitates and supervises the diverse activities of the Program. The PM will use his/her creativity, caring, and organizational skills to facilitate all aspects of running the enrichment program fostering motivation from participants. The ideal candidate has experience working with training programs and is comfortable leading groups of youth, building rapport with others, and maintaining patience and composure with unforeseen circumstances. The candidate is fully bilingual in English/Spanish.
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Human Rights Campaign:
Children, Youth and Families Program Coordinator
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The Children, Youth and Families (CYF) Coordinator is primarily responsible for meeting the administrative needs and assigned programmatic duties for special projects and initiatives housed within HRC’s Children, Youth and Families program, including the Parents for Transgender Equality Council (PTEC), the Youth Ambassador Program, the annual Time to THRIVE (T2T) conference, training programs, and collaborative “Project THRIVE” campaign with key strategic partners (National PTA, American Academy of Pediatrics, etc.).
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Now accepting blog submissions
We welcome submissions on a number of topics pertaining to domestic violence, family violence, and gender-based violence. These topics include, but are not limited to:
- Gender-based violence intervention and prevention programs that are culturally specific
- Working with Latin@ youth
- Working with immigrant Latin@s
- Health care and gender-based violence
- LGBTQ Latin@ communities
- Children and domestic violence
- Building Latin@ leadership in Latin@ communities
- Elder abuse
We also welcome photography, video, resources, and other digital material that organizations or people wish to share with our network.
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About the National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities
The National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities is a network of individuals and organizations committed to improving the health and well-being of Latin@ communities. The National Latin@ Network is led by Casa de Esperanza, a national Latina organization whose mission is to mobilize Latinas and Latin@ communities to end domestic violence. The National Latin@Network for Healthy Families and Communities builds on Casa de Esperanza´s experience working in local communities to support families, end domestic violence, and increase meaningful access to services for Latina@s and incorporates a research center, public policy initiative, and training.
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National Latin@ Network, a project of Casa de Esperanza
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