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National Immigrant Victims Access to Justice Partnership Trainings

With a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Legal Momentum and the Vera Institute of Justice formed the National Immigrant Victims Access to Justice Partnership in October 2009. Through field-tested materials – including a U-Visa Toolkit for Law Enforcement – the Partnership’s goal is to facilitate cooperation between immigrant victims of crime and law enforcement.

Under this grant, the Partnership will conduct thirteen trainings for law enforcement agencies on the U-visa, which provides legal immigration status for victims of crime who cooperate with law enforcement. The trainings focus on:

• the U-visa certification process;
• enhancing officers’ capacity to work with immigrant victims;
• the U-visa application procedure; and
• reasons that law enforcement agents may not be signing U-visa certifications.

The Partnership has held trainings for law enforcement in:

Honolulu, Hawaii - January 2011

Appleton, Wisconsin - November 2010

San Francisco, California - September 2010

Washington, DC - May 2010

Community members or law enforcement officials who are interested in learning more about future trainings or hosting one should contact Leslye Orloff or Rodolfo Estrada.

Other IWP Trainings

2010

• Building Capacity to Better Serve Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Trafficking - Savannah, GA. January 2010

2009

• U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women and
  Legal Momentum Present two Programs, April 6-9, Philadelphia:
  • Best Practices for Serving Immigrant Victims
  • Emerging Issues: New Tools to Help Immigrant Victims

2008

• US Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women Training: Effectively Assisting Battered Immigrants from the Legal Advocate's Perspective

2007

• Legal Momentum Training for Office on Violence Against Women Conference Grantees: Working with Immigrant Victims. Lexington, Kentucky. November 2007
• National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women's Conference: Let's Get Real, Creating and Implementing Models that Work for Immigrant Women and Communities. Lexington, Kentucky. November 2007

2006

• Legal Momentum Training for Office on Violence Against Women Grantees: Best Practices For Serving Immigrant Victims, Miami, Florida, June 2006

2005

• Northwest Regional Six-State Summit: Building State Capacity to Better Serve Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Trafficking, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, May 2005
• Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women: Understanding the Complex Realities and Enhancing Skills in Working with Immigrant Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence, Irvine, California, November 2005
• National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women Training, Irvine, California, November 2005

2004

• Office on Violence Against Women Grantee Training: Building Communities to Improve Services to Immigrant Victims of Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence and Trafficking, Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 2004

2003

• Office on Violence Against Women Grantee Training and National Network Conference, Tucson, Arizona, November 2003