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National Network Coalition Partners

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Our Vision

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.

Mission Statement

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

• Working with diverse immigrant communities to prevent violence against women.
• Building capacity for immigrant women to become leaders against all forms of violence.
• Promoting an understanding of the complex realities of immigrant women facing violence.
• 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.
• Increasing public awareness, education, and understanding of issues around violence against women, and in particular, immigrant women.
• Promoting law and public policy reforms at the local, state, and national levels that benefit immigrant women facing violence
• Sharing best practices throughout the network locally, nationally, and globally.

About Us

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 the Advanced Special Immigration for Survivors Technical Assistance (ASISTA). The three co-chair organizations contribute their special expertise and experience to the technical assistance, training and advocacy leadership the Network provides. The Network is supported by a National Advisory Committee with members representing diverse disciplines, backgrounds, and immigrant communities. 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.

What We Do

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

• Organizing national and/or regional conferences each year.
• Providing technical assistance
• Developing training materials and serving as faculty
• Enhancing legal options for immigrant survivors
• Advocating with government officials
• Developing multilingual outreach materials for victims
• Expanding access to shelter and housing for immigrant victims
• Supporting the work of local advocates and attorneys

Join

To join The National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women please download our membership form and mail it to: Family Violence Prevention Fund Attention: Mónica Arenas 383 Rhode Island St., Suite 304 San Francisco, CA 94103 T: (415) 252-8900 F: (415) 252-8991