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Louisiana Demographics
Demographic information on immigrant population in Louisiana – 2014 Data. Updated June 2016.
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Louisiana Judicial Training Network – Civil Protection Orders and Immigrantion Victims
This presentation was held for judges on September 18, 2021, and discusses the intersection of state civil protection orders and federal immigration laws. It outlines how to issue protection orders, make rulings about CPO violations involving immigrant victims and perpetrators, and use state protection catch all provisions to effectively protect immigrant victims and their children.
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Legal Protections When Child Victims are Immigrants and When Children Have Immigrant Parents
This presentation will allow audiences to understand how eligibility for immigration relief impacts your cases. The PowerPoint also includes information on how to promote issuance of state court findings for children filing for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, sign U visa certifications in cases of abused children and their immigrant parents, and help immigrant children access…
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Legal Rights of Immigrant Survivors: Public Benefits, Housing, & Victim Services
This webinar provided an overview of the protections immigrant survivors are legally eligible to access, how to assist immigrant and refugee survivors accessing housing, public benefits, legal service and justice system help in a trauma informed manner.
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Language Access: Compliance Requirements and Complying with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
This plenary covers the language requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which mandates that federally funded programs provide meaningful access to individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP). The training discusses the requirements that government and government-funded programs must adhere to with regards to language access, including the four factors policy…
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Language Access and Law Enforcement: The Why and How in Improving and Increasing Language Accessible Resources for Law Enforcement
This training for law enforcement focuses on strategies and techniques to increase language access to non-English speakers.
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Language Access and Law Enforcement: The Why and How in Improving and Increasing Language Accessible Resources for Law Enforcement
This presentation was done as a workshop at NIWAP’s December 2016 conference: “Addressing Culture: Systematic Responses to Underserved Immigrant Populations.” The session discussed language access resources for law enforcement.
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Language Access at Crime Scenes: Improve Successful Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions
These slides were presented by Officer Michael LaRiviere, Detective Shelli Sonnenberg, and Wendy Lau at the Community of Responders: A Holistic Approach to Working with Immigrant Survivors of Abuse in New Orleans, LA on July 30, 2015. It trained participants on how to use language access tools to improve investigations.
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Judicial Training Network Louisiana Implementation
This is a presentation that took place on September 21, 2008, for the judicial training network Louisiana implementation. It discussed the judicial resource officer system and access to justice.
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Judicial Training Network Overview of Project and State Team Expectations
This training is designed to build in-state judicial expertise on the immigration issues and questions arising in state court proceedings, provide judge-to-judge support thorough Judicial Resource Officers, and improve access to justice for immigrant children, children in immigrant families and immigrant crime victims.
National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project