Timely Tools Series – Part 1: Enhancing Protections for Immigrant Survivors
Armed with up-to-date legally accurate information victim advocates, attorneys, health care professionals, and law enforcement and prosecution agencies can enhance the important role they play supporting immigrant survivors of sexual and domestic violence, child abuse and human trafficking. Participants in this two-part webinar will learn best practices for assisting immigrant survivors seeking legal immigration relief, health care, benefits and accessing justice system protections. Part I will discuss new tools victim advocates can use in safety planning with immigrant survivors that meet current and emerging needs. Topics and tools to be covered include VAWA confidentiality’s statutory protections that can help deter victims’ deportation, advocate’s role in trauma informed interviewing and support for victims pursuing U and T visas, and the importance for immigrant survivors of building and sustaining collaborative relationships with law enforcement and prosecution agency staff.
Slides Immigrant Survivors KASAP Part I
Slides Immigrant Survivors KASAP Part 2
Timely Tools Series – Part 2: Promoting Immigrant Survivor’s Access to Benefits, Health Care, and Protection Orders in Kentucky
As immigrant survivors of sexual assault file for victim-based forms of legal immigration relief, their ability to access benefits and services expands and there is a significant increase in survivors’ willingness to seek civil protection orders. Identifying sex and labor trafficking co-occurring with sexual and family violence results in greater access to life saving benefits more quickly for child and adult victims. Webinar attendees will learn how to quickly access legally correct information on which benefits and services immigrant survivors and their children are eligible to receive in Kentucky. Topics will include: SANE exams; follow-up health care options for immigrant sexual assault survivors; and creative civil protection order remedies needed by immigrant survivors. To support participants’, work with immigrant survivors the webinar will demonstrate how participants can use NIWAP’s online benefits map and state-by-state charts.
VAWA Confidentiality
Three Prongs of VAWA Confidentiality
Letters That Promote ICE Compliance With 2025 Policies and Statutes
Videos Explaining How to Use Letters That Promote Ice Compliance With 2025 Policies And Statutes
Bench Card on Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Confidentiality
Advocate’s Guide to Immigrant Survivors’ Rights and Protections
Screening
DHS Interactive Infographic on Protections for Immigrant Victims
12 Question Predatory Helpfulness Screener
Immigration Relief for Victims
Bench Card on Immigration Relief for Battered Spouses, Children, and Immigrant Crime Victims
Chapter 10: U Visas: Victims of Criminal Activity
Preparing a VAWA Self Petition
T-Visa Law Enforcement Resource Guide (October 20,2021)
Certifying Early: When Should You Sign a U or T Visa Certification for a Victim?
DHS: U and T Visa Law Enforcement Resource Guide
U and T Visa Certification
U Visa Law Enforcement Resource Guide (February 28, 2022)
U-Visa: “Helpfulness” Checklist
U-Visas: Victims of Criminal Activity
T-Visa Law Enforcement Resource Guide (October 20,2021)
Model U Visa Certification for Prosecutor’s Offices
- Hennepin County Attorney’s Office U Visas and T Visas Certification Policy (Full Policy) (January 8, 2024)
- Hennepin County Attorney’s Office U Visas and T Visas Certification Policy (March 7, 2024)
Toolkits
U Visa Certification and T Visa Declaration Toolkits
Office of Trafficking in Persons (OTIP)
National Judicial Network & HHS’ Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) 2023 Sessions
HHS OTIP -Child Eligibility Benefits Handout (February 20, 2024)
Trauma Informed Interview Questions
Trauma Informed Structured Interview Questionnaires for Immigrant Cases (SIQI)
Sample Question for Identifying Trafficked or Enslaved Persons
Advocate’s and Attorney’s Tool for Developing a Survivor’s Story: Trauma-Informed Approach
Healthcare
Health Care Options for Immigrant Survivors Factsheet (August 5, 2024)
Health Care Access for Lawfully Present Immigrants – Definitions (May 27, 2024)
OVC, A National Protocol for Intimate Partner Violence Medical Forensic Examinations (May 2023)
Healthcare Access for Immigrants who are NOT Eligible to Access the Healthcare Exchanges
Pre-Natal Care for Immigrant Victims – All States
Emergency Medicaid for Immigrant Victims – All States
Coverage for Forensic Costs for Immigrant Victims – All States
Chapter 17: Access to Health Care for Immigrant Victims of Sexual Assault
State-Funded Public Benefits Comparison Chart (April 12, 2021)
NILC: Medical Assistance Programs for Immigrants in Various States (July 2021)
Trafficking Victim Benefits Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
U-Visa Victim Benefits Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
VAWA Self-Petitioner Victim Benefits Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Collaborations between IAFN (International Association of Forensic Nurses) and NIWAP
Access to Public Benefits
Interactive Public Benefits Map
Kentucky Public Benefits Screening Chart
Access to State-Funded Public Benefits in Kentucky for Survivors
Programs Open to Immigrant Victims and All Immigrants Without Regard to Immigration Status
Kentucky Benefits – Infographics
NIWAP Directory
Directory of Programs With Experience Serving Immigrant Victims
Kentucky Timeline of Immigrant Public Benefits
Kentucky Benefits Infographic – SIJS
Kentucky Benefits Infographic – U Visa