Strengthening Community and Organizational Responses: Serving Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking / U-Visa Certification: Strengthening Law Enforcement and Prosecutorial Assistance to Immigrant Victims

Hosted By: American University
 

Date/Time: Aug 30-31, 2023 AKDT (Boston, MA)
Aug 30 9:00am - Aug 31, 2023 5:00pm AKDT (Boston, MA)

 

Description: Overview: This two-day in-person interactive training focuses on providing attorneys, law enforcement, prosecutors, and advocates strategies for strengthening their understanding of legal and victim services options for and best practices when working with immigrant survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. This training offers diverse learning experiences delivered by a faculty of multi-disciplinary subject matter experts from a wide range of legal and victim service backgrounds including judges, law enforcement, prosecutors, advocates, and attorneys. Immigrant victim related training topics will include: stalking; immigration, public benefits, and family law case options, case strategies, and advanced issues; prosecution best practices; primary aggressor determinations; VAWA confidentiality and discovery; police officers as witnesses; multi-disciplinary collaboration; effective outreach; and improving language access. Participants will learn and share practices and strategies to improve immigrant victim safety, increase participation in the justice system, and enhance community safety.
 

Location: In-Person

Contact: Rocio Molina(240) 480-6378
Source: https://niwaplibrary.wcl.american.edu/2023conference