IMMIGRANT WOMEN RESOURCES
The KDVA Board of Directors has elected to create a collective account with Pacific Interpreters to provide ALL KDVA member programs with telephone interpretation services. This means that any person calling ANY member agency is ensured to receive services in her native language!
Task Force
One component of our efforts to ensure equal access to domestic and sexual violence services in Kentucky is our KDVA/ KASAP Task Force.
The Taskforce is a working group of statewide service providers and community volunteers. The Taskforce was formed in May of 2001 and has been meeting regularly since that time.
The purpose of the Taskforce:
First, it serves as a networking group for its own members. We share issues, ideas and resources.
Second, it offers guidance, support and direction to KDVA and KASAP for the provision of advocacy services to battered immigrant and refugee women and their dependents, and to help facilitation the provision of these services within the immigrant and refugee communities in Kentucky.
One of the major accomplishments of the taskforce is a statewide survey of services being provided, or not being provided, to battered immigrant, refugee, and LEP persons. The surveys were sent to KDVA's domestic violence programs and KASAP's rape crisis programs.
From the surveys, some of the top priority needs of staff advocates were:
- Training - Immigration issues and cultural diversity and sensitivity.
- Resources to support the staff.
- Communication and collaboration with community agencies including law enforcement.
- Language barriers
- Bilingual / bicultural staff advocates
- Access to trained, sensitive third party interpreters
- Translation of Documents - for the agency and for clients.
The taskforce has begun to address these priority areas and is working with KDVA's and KASAP's board of directors and staff to help plan how to approach some of these challenges. Training sessions created from the response of the programs and the needs they expressed.
TaskForce Activities and Information
Meetings:
The next meetingss of the ITF will be on April 20th at KASAP, June 29th at KDVA, and in September at KASAP. To find out more about upcoming meetings and activities contact Isela Arras.
Workshops and Technical Assistance Topics:
- Fundamental Concepts in Interpretation
- Fundamental Concepts in Serving Immigrant Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence
- Language Accessibility
- Cultural Competency
- Dynamics of Domestic Violence with a focus on Immigrant Women
- Public Benefits for Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence
- Financial Literacy
Please check back for scheduling of workshops and registration forms.
If you are interested in being added to our mailing list, or want more information about the Task Force, workshops, training for your agency, or technical assistance, click here to send a message to Isela Arras.
Resource Station
Contact us to request additional brochures.
Useful Links with description (will open in new window).
www.endabuse.org
The Family violence prevention fund. The FVPF is one of the nation's premiere organizations working to prevent domestic violence and prevent more women and children from having their lives devastated by abuse. The FVPF was a driving force behind the Violence Against Women Act, and continues to fight for laws to prevent family violence and support victims.
www.vawanet.org
VAWnet Library is an online resource for advocates working to end domestic violence, sexual assault, and other violence in the lives of women and their children.
www.prostitutionresearch.com
This website is a great tool in discussing prostitution as a form of violence against women
www.arte-sana.com
Arte Sana is a nonprofit agency for underserved survivors of gender and racial violence that promotes healing and empowerment through the arts and community education.
www.girlhealth.org
This website contains information on a variety of topics, including domestic violence and sexual assault.
www.vaw.umn.edu
This site provides law, criminal justice, advocacy, and social service professionals with up-to-date information on interventions to stop violence against women.
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/
Office on Violence Against Women.
www.ncrw.org
The National Council for Research on Women, founded in 1981, is a working alliance of 92 women's research and policy centers, more than 3,000 affiliates and a network of over 200 international centers. NCRW's mission is to enhance the connections among research, policy analysis, advocacy, and innovative programming on behalf of women and girls.
www.tapestri.org
Tapestri, The Refugee and Immigrant Coalition Against Domestic Violence, is dedicated to ending violence in the homes of refugees and immigrants, using culturally sensitive and appropriate methods. As advocates for refugee and immigrant families affected by domestic violence, we are committed to using education, community organizing, direct services and advocacy to effect change in the lives of these families.
www.tcfv.org and www.ndvh.org
The Texas Council on Family Violence works to end violence against women through partnerships, advocacy and direct services for women, children and men.
National Immigration Project, National Lawyer's Guild
www.lep.gov
Let Everyone Participate: Meaningful Access for People Who Are Limited English Proficient
More links can be found on the KDVA Links Page.
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