November 6,2019: Washington, D.C. Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance Panel “25th Anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act”

NIWAP’s Director, Leslye Orloff, was part of this panel for the Yale Alumni Non-profit Alliance, where panelists and attendees discussed the Violence Against Women Act. Ms. Orloff was apart of a panel that included attorneys and directors from the U.S. Department of Justice, Futures without Violence, and other nonprofit executives.

Training Materials

Powerpoint Presentation

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Legislative History

Forms of Immigration Relief

Public Benefits

For story collections that were developed and submitted to Congress and DHS as part of VAWA immigration’s legislative and regulatory history see here https://niwaplibrary.wcl.american.edu/topic/research/stories/

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