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The Center for Justice Innovation’s Technical Assistance Bulletin is a newsletter organized around various subjects that are of interest to Justice for Families grantees. In this edition of our technical assistance newsletter, you’ll read about the intersection of domestic violence and immigration from the National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP), as well as the Coalition Ending Gender Based Violence’s Domestic Violence Assessment Project in Seattle, Washington. You’ll also see news about the Center’s Coordinated Community Response training and technical assistance project, along with our team’s latest publications and resources from our technical assistance partners.

This resource provides considerations for site selection and center design when
providing supervised visitation & safe exchange services to survivors of intimate partner abuse.

ASISTA has prepared an introductory resource on survivor-based immigration relief for beginner practitioners and domestic violence and sexual assault advocates. The resource provides an overview of common immigration terms and the eligibility criteria for common forms of survivor-based relief, including U and T visas and related adjustment applications, VAWA Self-Petitions and VAWA adjustment, battered spouse waivers, VAWA cancellation of removal, and work permits for abused spouses of certain nonimmigrants.

ASISTA has prepared a practice advisory for immigration practitioners that provides an introduction to the impacts of criminal-legal system contacts on eligibility for survivor-based immigration relief. The advisory surveys common criminal grounds of inadmissibility, bars to good moral character, exceptions and waivers, and the impact of criminal grounds of inadmissibility on eligibility for U-visas, T-visas, Adjustment of Status, VAWA Self-Petitions, and VAWA cancellation of removal. This practice advisory also contains practice tips for immigration practitioners who represent criminalized survivors and citations to additional resources.

This toolkit provides practical skills and information on how to best honor victim/survivor confidentiality while doing work on a sexual assault response team (SART).

SPANISH – This packet contains the template documents that have been crafted by the NNEDV transitional housing (TH) team. While there are no mandatory documents in the OVW TH program, there are some required pieces to make sure that services are clearly advertised to survivors; that survivors’ privacy and confidentiality rights are being protected; and that there are clear application and eligibility processes for survivors and advocates to understand. With that said, our toolkit includes other documents that programs usually use. While they are not mandatory to use, we believe that these versions of the documents align with OVW’s philosophy and are available to use at any time.
Included:
– Plantilla de buenas prácticas: Solicitud de vivienda
– Herramienta para establecer metas
– Procedimiento para quejas en la vivienda transicional
– Guía de admisión de la vivienda de transición
– ¡Bienvenida al programa de vivienda transicional!
– Excepción para la duración de alojamiento
– Glosario de los documentos del conjunto de herramientas la vivienda de transición (TH)
– Guía para la creación o revisión de políticas y formularios
– Apelación de una negación de solicitud de servicios del programa de vivienda transicional
– Plantilla: formulario sobre la divulgación de información limitado para usar con un cliente
– Plantilla de política/procedimientos para la retención de documentos de clientes
– Plantilla: carta al propietario
– Plantilla: carta de verificación del participante

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