Multi-Disciplinary Best Practices: Immigrant Domestic & Sexual Violence Victims, Language Access and the U and T Visas

This is the presentation was used for training law enforcement, prosecutors, attorneys, and advocates in Missouri. NIWAP offered two identical trainings on two separate days and used this presentation for both trainings. The training discussed how to identify victims and witness who qualify for crime victim-based forms of immigration relief. It covered how to enhance officer, victim, and community safety and by utilizing immigration relief as a crime fighting tool. Finally, it included language access tools to understand immigrant victim/offender dynamics as well as pretrial and trial strategies to combat common defenses to cases involving immigrant victims of crime.