Technical Assistance
NIWAP is a national expert on the legal rights and services available to immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child and elder abuse, stalking, human trafficking, and other violence. Through technical assistance, NIWAP provides this expertise for judges, law enforcement, prosecutors, lawyers, and victim advocates nationwide on issues relevant to their work with immigrant survivors.
Trainings
NIWAP leads national training, education, and technical assistance enhancing the knowledge and capacity of professionals to better serve immigrant survivors and contributes to ensuring laws are effectively put into effect. Our training partners include law enforcement officers, judges, prosecutors, and legal experts from across the country. We increase access to justice for immigrant survivors by supporting professionals who help survivors and their children live free from violence. We provide training to a wide range of professionals who encounter immigrant survivors in communities across the country.
Resources
NIWAP’s legal and social science research, and all training materials are focused in laws, policies, and practices that enhance help for immigrant survivors and perpetrator accountability. NIWAP’s policy advocacy work builds networks of support and advises key decision makers to promote access to justice, legal protections, social services and economic justice for immigrant crime victims and immigrant women. Some of the tools and resources available include: a Public Benefits Map that easily identifies benefits and services available to immigrant survivors, a State-by-State Directory of programs that serve immigrant victims and their children, case law on key topics, e.g., custody, divorce, and protections for immigrant children, including special immigrant juvenile status, state statutes on the best interest of the child, state public benefits for victims, family court service of process; state law definitions of domestic violence, child abuse, abandonment, and neglect; all forms of civil protection orders offered in each state; and state U Visa laws, trauma-informed tools for practitioners that include screening and interview guides as well as videos and webinars to support advocates and attorneys working with immigrant survivors, and a virtual library containing survivor stories, research, and resources published by state and federal agencies, NIWAP, and other subject matter experts on immigrant survivors’ legal rights in the areas of family law, domestic violence, immigration, public benefits, interpreters, confidentiality, and victim services.