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The law enforcement training covered the best practices and recommendations based on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations, policies and training materials on U and T visa certification and included a discussion of the benefits for law enforcement and prosecutors in following DHS's recommendations for certification early in the case including in cases that are […]
Topic: Dynamics, Culture, & Safety
Materials and various tools and best practices regarding dynamics, culture, and safety.
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[pdf] Law Enforcement and Prosecution Best Practices: Immigrant Crime Victims, Language Access and the U Visa (+)
[pdf] Law Enforcement Materials for Advocacy in Action 2017 (+)
[pdf] Screening Clients for Immigration Relief and the Importance of Trauma Informed Care (+)
[pdf] Demographics of Unaccompanied Minors in the United States (+)
[pdf] Understanding the Significance of a Minor's Trauma History in Family Court Rulings: Implicationas for Cases of Immigrant Children and Youth Factsheet (+)
[pdf] Understanding the Significance of a Minor's Trauma History in Family Court Rulings: Implications for Cases of Immigrant Children and Youth (February 3, 2017) (+)
Article discussing the neurobiology of child brain development and how it impacts children who come before state family courts in domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, custody, delinquency, dependency and other cases. The article brings together research findings in the fields of child brain science and research on the traumas experienced by immigrant children in their home countries, during their immigration to the U.S. and trauma and abuse immigrant children experience after arriving in the United States.
Training For Advocates and Attorneys on Trauma Informed Work With Immigrant Women (April 23, 2014)
Hands On Training for Advocates and Attorneys on Trauma-Informed Work With Immigrant Women Who Are Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. Published on Apr 23, 2014 Table of Contents: Scenario 1: Avoidant / Minimizing Coercive Control – 6:23 Scenario 2: Patterns of Trauma / Traumatized Client – 28:37 Scenario 3: Anxious Client – […]
[pdf] Representation of Battered Immigrants, Immigrant Child Abuse Victims and Unaccompanied Minors (+)
[pdf] Slides: Trauma-Informed Care, Part 2: The Nuts and Bolts of Immigration Story Writing Intervention (March 19, 2014) (+)
This webinar builds on a previous broadcast "Trauma-Informed Care: Promoting Healing While Strengthening Survivors' Immigration Case", which introduced the process of immigration story writing intervention – a unique technique that couples (1) a trauma-focused writing exercise, shown to reduce the psychological impact of trauma exposure, with (2) a record of the survivor's experience of domestic violence, sexual abuse, or other qualifying traumatic event that enhances the survivor's evidence-based immigration relief application. All registrants should review Part I prior to the second broadcast. In this sequel, presenters will offer a tested and trauma sensitive tool, helpful resources, and effective strategies to facilitate the immigration story writing intervention. The focus will be on helping advocates obtain in-depth details from survivors, identify patterns of coercive control, and promote healing as they build stronger immigration relief applications.
[pdf] BIA Amius Brief on Recent Research Concerning the Neurobiological, Cognitive, and Psychological Development of Children and Adolescents (July 11, 2016) (+)
This Amicus brief was submitted to the Board of Immigration Appeals and addresses an important issue presented by Amicus Invitation No. I 6-06-09, focusing on how the term "minor" should be defined and understood by the Board in child asylum cases in light of the substantial body of recent research concerning the neurobiological, cognitive, and psychological development of children and adolescents. This brief will focus on the significant and deleterious effect trauma and
maltreatment have on that development, including the impact of impaired development on the readiness of child migrants to file asylum applications.
[pdf] Blue Campaign: What Can You Do? (NGOs and Faith-based Organizations) (+)
USCIS factsheet on supporting and stabilizing victims of human trafficking NGOs and faith-based organizations.
[pdf] USCIS Brochure: Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (+)
Produced by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security covering Female Genital Mutilation.
[pdf] U.S. Government Fact Sheet on Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (FGM/C) (+)
[pdf] Creative Remedies PowerPoint (PDF) (+)
Creative Remedies PowerPoint (PDF)
[pdf] Road Map to Safer Communities PowerPoint (PDF) (+)
Road Map to Safer Communities PowerPoint (PDF)
[pdf] Don't Hush Discuss the Need for Sex-Ed for Muslim Communities (+)
Don't Hush Discuss the Need for Sex-Ed for Muslim Communities
[pdf] Reflections on an Imams Guilty Plea Heart Women Girls (+)
Reflections on an Imams Guilty Plea Heart Women Girls
[pdf] Elgin Muslim Leader Admits Sex Abuse of Minor and Woman Gets Probation Elgin (Courier News) (+)
Elgin Muslim Leader Admits Sex Abuse of Minor and Woman Gets Probation Elgin (Courier News)
[pdf] On Supporting Your Loved Ones: Responding to Allegations of Sexual Violence in Muslim Community (+)
On Supporting Your Loved Ones: Responding to Allegations of Sexual Violence in Muslim Community
[pdf] Exploring Social Cultural and Faith Communities as Allies Powerpoint (+)
Exploring Social Cultural and Faith Communities as Allies Powerpoint
[pdf] Anticipating and Protecting Immigrant Survivors' Privacy Interests (+)
Anticipating and Protecting Immigrant Survivors' Privacy Interests
[pdf] How the Justice System can Respond to Intersections of Immigration Status, Gender, and Culture (Powerpoint PDF) (+)
How the Justice System can Respond to Intersections of Immigration Status, Gender, and Culture (Powerpoint PDF)
[pptx] How the Justice System can Respond to Intersections of Immigration Status, Gender, and Culture (Powerpoint) (+)
How the Justice System can Respond to Intersections of Immigration Status, Gender, and Culture (Powerpoint)
[pdf] Raquel Chart (+)
Raquel Chart
[pptx] Sexual Assault, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus: When Foreign-born Students are Victims (Powerpoint) (+)
Sexual Assault, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus: When Foreign-born Students are Victims (Powerpoint)
[pdf] Sexual Assault, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus: When Foreign-born Victims Become Targets (Powerpoint PDF) (+)
Sexual Assault, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus: When Foreign-born Victims Become Targets (Powerpoint PDF)
[pptx] Opening Plenary – Addressing Culture: Systematic Responses to Underserved Immigrant Populations (+)
Opening Plenary – Addressing Culture: Systematic Responses to Underserved Immigrant Populations
[pdf] Opening Plenary – Addressing Culture: Systematic Responses to Underserved Immigrant Populations (+)
Opening Plenary – Addressing Culture: Systematic Responses to Underserved Immigrant Populations
December 12-16, 2016: OVW Grantee Training "Addressing Culture: Systemic Responses to Underserved Immigrant Populations"
All materials on this page were presented as part of our December 2016 conference: "Addressing Culture: Systematic Responses to Underserved Immigrant Populations." Documents are listed under the workshop or plenary with which they are associated. The full agenda for this conference is available here. Opening Plenary – How to Use Culture, Religion and the Law […]
Out of the Shadows (DHS Blue Campaign PSA)
This PSA was developed by the Department of Homeland Security for its Blue Campaign, which fights human trafficking. Please share widely! The link address is: http://youtu.be/yKQSXv5Efvg
[pdf] 2016 NOLA Agenda with Descriptions (+)
A detailed agenda for : "Addressing Culture: Systematic Responses to Underserved Immigrant Populations." The conference was held in New Orleans, Louisiana from December 12-16, 2016.
[pdf] Understanding the Significance of a Minor's Trauma History in Family Court Rulings (+)
This fact sheet provides courts and overview of how children are affected by experiencing trauma including the trauma of domestic violence being perpetrated at home. Contains social and brain science research data.
2016 Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance Conference Materials
Presentation: Building a Community of Practice: Creating a Culture of Social Equity for Immigrant Women and Children Additional Materials: Herstory: Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Public Policy Timeline Highlighting Accomplishments on Behalf of Immigrants and Women of Color Collecting Stories to Illustrate the Need for Proposed Reforms to Aid Immigrant Victims Understanding and Participating […]
[pdf] NIWAP Brochure (+)
Brochure describing NIWAP's mission, vision and programs:
— Training: Capacity Building to Make Laws Effective
— Research: Transformation Through Documentation
— Policy: Amplifying Voices Through Advocacy
[pdf] Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Public Policy Timeline Highlighting Accomplishments on Behalf Of Immigrants and Women of Color (February 11, 2017) (+)
Provides an overview of the historical achievements that improve laws, policies, practices and access to services for battered women, sexual assault victims and particularly immigrant and women of color victims.
[pdf] Уязвимость к травме Вопросники структурированного интервью для иммигрантов (SIQI) (+)
Следующие вопросники были составлены для проведения Структурированного Интервью при Уязвимости к Травме. В ходе проведения сессии, клиентам предлагается непрерываясь, поделиться своей историей.Тем временем адвокаты и правозащитники слушают их, делают записи и следят за их настроением. Этот инструмент был создан для применения во время слушаний собеседований с клиентами. Этот Вопросник Структурированного Интервью для Иммигрантов (SIQI) позволяет адвокатам и правозащитникам извлечь глубже дополнительную информацию для укрепления иммиграционного дела клиентов и также предоставит полную картину травмы и физической боли, вынесенной потерпевшими. Вопросы были придуманы для облегчения состояния клиентов и улучшения их иммиграционного заявления, путём раскрытия важных подробностей их истории, тщательной проверкой на наличие других происшествий, испытаний и эмоциональных потрясений, которые вызваны крайней жестокостью и/или сильным психическим либо физическим надругательством. Адвокатам и правозащитникам следует объяснить цели данной сессии перед началом проведения структурированного интервью об уязвимости к травме. (Trauma Informed Structured Interview Questionnaire)
[docx] Dynamics of DV& SA learning interests from COP participants (+)
Dynamics of DV& SA learning interests from COP participants From the Community of Practice applications, here are the things participants listed as learning topics relating to the dynamics of DV & SA for Immigrant Survivors.
[pdf] Resource Guide: Supporting Undocumented Youth (+)
A guide for success in secondary and post-secondary settings
[pdf] Slides from "Helping Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking Victims: Holding their Abusers Accountable" (+)
These slides were presented by Leslye Orloff in a keynote address entitled "Helping Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking Victims: Holding their Abusers Accountable" at Youngstown State University on March 31, 2016. For additional materials relevant to this training, please visit www.niwap.org/go/Ohio2016.
[pdf] Slides from Plenary II: Strengthening Immigrant Survivors and Working with Immigrant Clients in Crisis – Trauma Informed Approach (+)
These slides were presented by Mary Ann Dutton, Mercedes V. Lorduy and Edna Yang at the Community of Responders: A Holistic Approach to Working with Immigrant Survivors of Abuse in New Orleans, LA on July 29, 2015.
[pdf] Representing Domestic Violence Survivors who are Experiencing Trauma and Other Mental Health Challenges: A Handbook for Attorneys (+)
This handbook for attorneys was created by the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health. In recent years, those who work with survivors of domestic violence have become
increasingly aware of the connection between trauma and domestic violence, as well as
other effects of domestic violence on a survivor's mental health. This handbook aims to inform prosecutors who represent survivors with trauma or other mental health challenges.
[pdf] Self Care Tool (+)
Self-care should be a preventive measure, and not
something one does when feeling completely overwhelmed. It is not always easy to take
care of ourselves; demands from work, family, and friends can relegate self-care to the
bottom of your "to-do" list. Self-care is particularly important for attorneys and advocates
that work closely with traumatized clients that have difficult stories to tell.
[pdf] Grounding Tool (+)
Grounding techniques are used when working with a trauma survivor who may become overwhelmed or enter a dissociated state when recounting memories or strong emotions associated with a traumatic event.
[pdf] How to Prepare Your Case Through a Trauma Informed Approach: Tips on Using the Trauma Informed Structured Interview Questionnaires for Family Court Cases (SIQI) 7.23.15 (+)
Developing a survivor's story is a critical component of preparing for any case in which a client has a
history of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and/or stalking. When working with immigrant
survivors applying for immigration relief as a result of the abuse, it is necessary to collect a detailed story to
submit as part of the immigration application.
[pdf] Leadership Academy Manual (+)
Collection of materials aimed to promote the presence of marginalized populations in leadership roles.
*Breaking Barriers Table of Contents
Breaking Barriers is a comprehensive manual that provides information that will be useful to advocates, attorneys, justice, and social services professionals working with and assisting immigrant survivors of domestic and family violence. This Manual provides a detailed overview explanation of immigrant survivors' legal rights under immigration, family, public benefits, and criminal laws and their rights to […]
*Empowering Survivors Table of Contents
This is a comprehensive manual that provides information that will be useful to advocates, attorneys, justice, and social services professionals working with and assisting immigrant survivors of sexual assault. This manual will help advocates and professionals expand their knowledge and capacity to aid immigrant victims of sexual assault in accessing justice under federal and state civil, […]
[pdf] DHS Policies and Safety Planning Flowchart (+)
Flowchart describing safety planning for immigrant survivors and the benefits of initiating the victims immigration case before serving a perpetration in a family law or protection order case. The document also contains a list and links to Department of Homeland Security policies that foster victim protection from immigration enforcement and removal.
[pdf] DHS Enforcement Priorities: Policies and Memoranda Information for State Court Judges (+)
The purpose of this bench card is to inform courts about DHS protections available to all immigrants so that the court can assess cases with an understanding of real policies and see official memoranda describing the intended protections available.
[pdf] Brochure: Know Your Rights (+)
Regardless of your immigration status, you have the right to be safe in your own home. You have the right to leave or have anyone removed from your home who abuses you and/or your children physically, emotionally or sexually. No one has the right to hurt you or your children in any way.
[pdf] Chapter 05.1: Know Your Rights (+)
Brochure for battered immigrants, their advocates and their attorneys.
[pdf] Immigrant Population by State (+)
Immigrant Population by State
[pdf] Percent Change in Foreign Born Population 2006-2010 (+)
A state by state breakdown of the percent change in the foreign born population from 2006-2010.
[pdf] Building Trusting Relationships: A Guide for Advocates/Attorneys Working With Law Enforcement On U-Visa Certification Issues (+)
A flowchart of options for advocates and attorneys that seek to collaborate with LE on U-Visa certification cases. This flowchart describes how to build a trusting relationship as an advocate or attorney working with law enforcement on u-visa certification issues.
[pdf] Comparing Forms of Immigration Relief for Immigrant Victims of Crime (+)
This chart has been developed as a tool to help advocates, attorneys, judges, law enforcement and other professionals to promote a basic understanding of how various forms of immigration relief available to help immigrant crime victims and children differ. The chart compares eligibility requirements, access to employment authorization and lawful permanent residency, and the application process.
[pdf] Questions to Use for Crime Scene Identification of Limited English Proficient (LEP) (+)
These are sample introductory questions that an officer can ask when meeting a person that is potentially LEP. They are based on scenarios that an officer will likely encounter during his or her patrol. The goal is to ask questions that are not related to information the officer may need to for a criminal case, that can build rapport with victims and witnesses and avoid yes/no questions helping officers assess the need for a qualified interpreter to help LEP persons communicate with law enforcement and promote accuracy of police reports and criminal investigations.
[pdf] Why Using an Interpreter is Beneficial to Law Enforcement (+)
This document outlines the benefits to law enforcement officers of identifying LEP persons language access needs at crime scenes and during criminal investigations. These benefits include improving officer and crime scene safety, improving the likelihood of a successful prosecution, and ensuring that officers fully capture helpful statements from victims and witnesses.
[pdf] Immigrant Women, Work, and Violence Statistics (+)
This document collects, reports, and summarizes research findings regarding immigrant women, work, and violence.
[pdf] U-Visa "Helpfulness" Checklist (+)
This checklist has been developed to assist police, prosecutors, judges, commissioners, magistrates and other U visa certifying officials in identifying the wide range of ways an immigrant crime victim can provide helpfulness to justice system officials and government agencies in detection, investigation, prosecution, conviction or sentencing of U visa listed criminal activity. The document includes citations to U.S. Department of Homeland Security policies, regulations, guidance and training materials on U visa certification and helpfulness. A national team of law enforcement, prosecutors and judicial trainers with expertise and experience on the U visa contributed to the development of the list of examples of helpfulness included in this document based on their experience and expertise.
[pdf] Patricia's Story (+)
What would you have done to assist Patricia through this process? What can you do now to assist her?
[pdf] Coordinated Community Response to Sexual Assault in Your Community: An Organizational Self-Assessment Tool (+)
Coordinated Community Response to Sexual Assault in Your Community: An organizational Self-Assessment Tool
[pdf] Battered Immigrants and U.S. Citizen Spouses (+)
This paper reviews and provides data about the dynamics of domestic violence experienced by immigrant women. This information will help adjudicators who decide cases involving battered immigrant women better understand and consider the evidence presented, against a background of the research on domestic violence and immigrants. A second important goal of this paper is to provide information and data that will assist legislators and government agency policy makers in crafting legislation and administrative agency regulations and policies that will be grounded in the reality of the dynamics of domestic violence experienced by immigrant women.
[pdf] Percent Increase of Immigrant Population between 2001 and 2009 (+)
Data of percent increase of immigrant populations between 2001 and 2009.
[pdf] Barriers and Successes in U Visas for Immigrant Victims: The Experiences of Legal Assistance for Victims Grantees (+)
The paper focuses on problems, successes, and creative solutions reported by attorneys and advocates working with immigrant victims eligible to receive crime victim U visas under federal immigration laws. Victims applying for U visa immigration relief must, under current law, submit a U visa certification signed by the head of a law enforcement agency, prosecutor, judge, or other government official with their U visa application. This research provides information regarding effective strategies and best practices used by grantees that are successful in obtaining U visa certification. The systemic barriers that immigrant victims and their advocates encounter when working with U visa are also discussed, along with creative solutions grantees are using to overcome these barriers.
[pdf] Tennessee Demographics (+)
Basic demographic information on immigrant population in Tennessee – 2014 Data. Updated June 2016.
[pdf] Safety Planning Webinar Slides Handout (+)
Safety planning for immigrant survivors using DHS's new victim protection policies.
[pdf] Early Access to Work Authorization For VAWA Self-Petitioners and U-Visa Applicants (+)
This NIWAP report, which was published in 2014, summarizes the purpose, history, and importance of work authorization for immigrant survivors of domestic violence. It also summarizes a 2013 NIWAP survey of service providers about the length of time their clients spent waiting for work authorization, what occurred during the waiting period, and their experiences after receiving work authorization.
The initial process of obtaining work authorization often takes too long and exposes immigrant survivors of violence to retaliation, coercion, and further harm including incidents of violence and abuse. This document includes recommendations on policy changes in processing VAWA self-petitions and U-Visa applications. It also includes an appendix with illustrative cases showing the impact of delays in processing times for VAWA self-petitioners and U-Visa applicants with a pending case.
[pdf] Chapter 01.2: Collaboration, Confidentiality, and Expanding Advocacy (+)
This chapter (1.2) discusses best practice for collaborations between victim advocates and attorneys and justice system personnel, particularly law enforcement. These collaborations are best practices for effectively serving immigrant survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
[pdf] Chapter 03.2: VAWA Confidentiality and Breaches of Confidentiality (+)
Battered immigrant women relay extremely sensitive and private information to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS, formerly INS)3 when seeking immigration relief. A batterer in possession of any of this information might use it to locate the battered immigrant spouse and her children and harm them. If he becomes aware that she is seeking immigration status independently of him or planning on leaving him, he might try to seek revenge and might contact the immigration authorities in an attempt to undermine her case or have her deported. For these reasons, confidentiality rules can serve as a potentially lifesaving protection for the victim and her children. A manual of confidentiality and breaches of confidentiality.
[pdf] Special Immigrant Juvenile Status: Information for Child Welfare Workers (+)
Information for child welfare workers in regards to the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS).
[pdf] Immigrant Victims in the Justice System (+)
Flow chart illustrating the importance of providing support for immigrant victims seeking help from the justice system and the many different types of justice system cases immigrant victims encounter as they turn to the justice system for help. The systems immigrant and LEP victims need support navigating include: immigration, domestic violence/ arrest incident, family court, benefits, and protection orders (civil court process).
[pdf] The Central Role of Victim Advocacy for Victim Safety While Victims' Immigration Cases Are Pending (+)
Reference guide on various statistics on immigrant victims collected from a nationwide survey conducted in October 2013.
[pdf] CH 01: Dynamics of Sexual Assault and the Implications for Immigrant Women (+)
Chapter in Empowering Survivors: Legal Rights of Immigrant Victims of Sexual Assault. This chapter (1) on sexual assault dynamics experienced by immigrant survivors is designed to help deliver culturally sensitive culturally appropriate services to immigrant survivors by well-informed professionals who support survivors in confronting and overcoming the significant legal and personal challenges they may encounter as they heal and recover from sexual assault.
[pdf] Programs Open to Immigrant Victims and All Immigrants Without Regard to Immigration Status (+)
This brochure contains a list of programs for the protection of life, safety and public health, as well as legal services, which are available to immigrants regardless of their immigration status.
[pdf] Funding Effective Program Services for Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence (2014) (+)
Monograph for State STOP Administrators designed to help Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) STOP Grant Administrators expand services to projects that serve immigrant victims of family violence. Specifically, it will focus on factors Administrators should examine to determine how effective a program will be in serving a targeted, immigrant population. It will provide guidelines to distinguish between programs that claim to be open to immigrants and those that have established true and trusting relationships with immigrant communities.
[pdf] Texas Demographics (+)
Basic demographic information on immigrant population in Texas – 2014 Data. Updated June 2016.
[pdf] U-Visa Legal Advocacy: Overview of Effective Policies and Practices (+)
This policy brief provides an overview of successful collaborations that lead to improved access to U visa certification for immigrant crime victims. A review of the experiences reported by grantee organizations of the Legal Assistance for Victims (LAV) Program, administered by the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) found that successful collaborations with law enforcement agencies that grantees built over time, working on a range of domestic violence and sexual assault issue, led to more positive outcomes for immigrant survivors seeking U visa collaborations. This policy brief contains illustrations and recommendations for best practices for building sustainable collaborations that benefit law enforcement, immigrant victims, advocates, attorneys and the communities.
[pdf] Immigrant Crime Victims Social Science Bibliography (2013) (+)
Bibliography of social science research relating to immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking through 2013.
[pdf] Immigrant Crime Victims Legal Bibliography (2013) (+)
Bibliography of legal journal articles and legal publications related to the legal rights of immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking through 2013.
[pdf] CH 1.1 Dynamics of Domestic Violence Experienced by Immigrant Victims (+)
This chapter (1.1) discussed the dynamics of domestic violence as experienced by immigrant victims. It discusses immigrant victim's experiences with domestic violence as well as fear deportation, economic abuse, child custody, misconceptions victim's have about the U.S. legal system, immigrant victims interactions with the justice system and how advocates and attorneys can effectively support victims in exercising their legal rights and gaining access to victim services.
[pdf] Chapter 02: Interviewing and Safety Planning for Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence (+)
This chapter will discuss the best ways for advocates and attorneys to communicate with battered immigrant clients. It will detail effective methods of identifying, interviewing, assisting, and ensuring the safety of domestic violence victims. It will teach advocates and attorneys how to interact with clients in a manner that diminishes the pain involved with discussing the abuse and how to be sensitive to cultural differences.
[pdf] Empowering Survivors: Legal Rights of Immigrant Victims of Sexual Assault (+)
This is a comprehensive manual that provides information that will be useful to advocates, attorneys, justice, and social services professionals working with and assisting immigrant survivors of sexual assault. This manual will help advocates and professionals expand their knowledge and capacity to aid immigrant victims of sexual assault in accessing justice under federal and state civil, immigration, public benefits, social services, language access legal services and criminal laws in the United States. The goal is to help provide resources, assistance, and support to help immigrant victims of sexual violence and sexual harassment recover, heal, and rebuild their lives. The chapter and tools included in this manual may also be useful to advocates, attorneys, and social services professionals working with immigrant victims of domestic violence, stalking, and human trafficking.
[pdf] Breaking Barriers: A Complete Guide to Legal Rights and Resources for Battered Immigrants (+)
Breaking Barriers is a comprehensive tool that provides information that will be useful to advocates, attorneys, justice, and social services professionals working with and assisting immigrant survivors of domestic and family violence. This Manual provides a detailed overview explanation of immigrant survivors' legal rights under immigration, family, public benefits, and criminal laws and their rights to access a broad range of victim services without regard to immigration status of the immigrant crime victim or their children. Breaking Barriers provides social science research findings, information about laws, policies and best practices, legislative history, tools and checklists that will help professionals working with immigrant survivors navigate intersecting legal and social services options that are legally available to assist all immigrant victims including those who are undocumented.
[pdf] Chapter 06.1: Countering Abuser's Attempts to Raise Victim's Immigration Status in Custody Cases (+)
This chapter is designed to help family lawyers prepare to counter attempts by abusers to raise immigration status in custody cases. Attorneys should be encouraged to use the information in this chapter to educate judges hearing custody cases about the fact that they should not consider immigration status in making custody decisions in the best interests of children. The contents of this chapter are written in a format that could be incorporated into a bench brief to a trial court in a custody matter or that would be included in materials for educating judges.
[pdf] Chapter 15: Jurisdictionally Sound Civil Protection Orders (+)
Chapter in Empowering Survivors: Legal Rights of Immigrant Victims of Sexual Assault. This chapter discusses the importance of and steps that advocates and attorneys working with immigrant victims of domestic violence, child abuse, elder abuse, stalking and sexual assault can take to ensure that civil protection orders issues to family, stalking and sexual violence victims are jurisdictionally sound and enforceable. It provides practice pointers for avoiding agreement to and objecting to court orders that result in state court issuance of "no-findings" protection orders and lays out best practices for receiving consent protection orders that are jurisdictionally sound and enforceable because they are based on the uncontested affidavit of a victim in a civil case.
[pdf] Justice is More Than Jail: Why (And How) Lawyers and Advocates Can Use Existing Civil Laws to Meet Immigrant Sexual Assault Survivors' Most Critical Needs (+)
A powerpoint presentation from the June 26-27, 2013 training in Providence, Rhode Island from session 2A.
[pdf] Advocate's Guide to Immigrant Survivors' Rights and Protections (+)
A guide for advocates and attorneys on immigrant survivors rights if they become the subject of immigration enforcement. This tool helps advocates providing advise to immigrant victims of domestic violence and sexual assault about steps both the immigrant crime victim and the advocate/attorney should take should the victim become the subject of an immigration enforcement action.
[pdf] SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE WORKPLACE: CASE STORIES (+)
Presents case stories on sexual violence in the workplace
[pdf] Immigrant and Limited English Proficient Victims' Access to the Criminal Justice System: The Importance of Collaboration (+)
Fact Sheet highlighting findings from a national survey NIWAP conducted documenting immigrant crime victims' experiences when they called the police for help in domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking cases. The findings provide data on the use of qualified interpreters at crime scenes by police and law enforcement barriers to U visa certification. In communities where established collaborative relationships between law enforcement and victim advocates and attorneys existed, law enforcement was significantly more likely to sign U visa certifications and more likely to provide language assess for limited English proficient crime victims at crime scenes.
[pdf] National Survey of Service Providers on Police Response to Immigrant Crime Victims, U Visa Certification and Language Access (+)
This report explores police responses to immigrant victims of crime from the perspectives of various service providers, including legal services, pro bono attorneys, social service organizations, domestic violence/sexual assault programs, law enforcement and prosecutors' offices. The data presented are based on the results of a nationwide survey of organizations serving immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking. We assess the effect that a history of ongoing collaboration between victim and legal services agencies and law enforcement has on U Visa certification practices and language access to the justice system. The paper also examines the experiences of working with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) clients and language access in the field and during legal procedures. A key focus of this paper is to identify factors that support improved access to culturally and linguistically appropriate resources and services, including the identification of systemic barriers that impede access.
[pdf] Flowchart on Access to Federal and State Public Benefits for Battered Immigrant Spouses and Children of U.S. Citizens or Lawful Permanent Residents (+)
This is a flowchart pertaining to abused family members' access to federal and state public benefits, including services necessary to protect life and safety.
[pdf] Trauma Informed Structured Interview Questionnaires (SIQI) (+)
The following questionnaires are provided to facilitate the Trauma Informed Structured Interview, which is the second part of the Trauma Informed Immigration Story Writing Intervention Method. During the story developing session, clients are encouraged to share their story uninterrupted while advocates and attorneys listen, take notes, and watch for triggers. This tool is designed to be used during follow up interviews with clients. This Structured Interview Questionnaire for Immigration (SIQI) will aid advocates and attorneys in eliciting additional in-depth information to strengthen their client's immigration case and will also provide a complete picture of trauma and distress endured by survivors. The questions are designed to facilitate the client's healing and to strengthen the client's immigration application by uncovering important details of the story by screening for additional incidents, experiences, and emotional harms that contribute to extreme cruelty and/or substantial mental or physical abuse. Attorneys and advocates should explain the goals of this session to the client before initiating the trauma informed structured interview.
[pdf] Advocate's and Attorney's Tool for Developing a Survivor's Story: Trauma Informed Approach (+)
A survivor's story is one of the most important pieces of evidence submitted with the VAWA, U, and T visa applications, which makes them different from other immigration applications. This is an opportunity for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) adjudicators to hear directly from the survivor, in his or her own voice. When reading the survivor's story, the reader – ultimately, the DHS adjudicator – should be able to know and feel what the survivor felt after being subjected to abuse or crime victimization.
[pdf] IPV Threat Appraisal Scale and Fear Scale (+)
A visual card template to assist your client in selecting the correct response.
[pdf] IPV Coercion Measure (+)
A template for measuring intimate partner violence coercion.
[pdf] Report on State Plans and Services for Immigrant and Limited English Proficient (LEP) Victims (+)
NIWAP conducted a state by state review in 2012 of State Implementation Plans submitted by state STOP Administrators to the Office on Violence Against Women to identify trends and best practices for working with immigrant and limited English proficient victims. This report contains the results of that review.
[pdf] Percent Change in Foreign-Born Population Between 2001 and 2009- Census 2010 (+)
A chart of the percent change in foreign-born population between 2001 and 2009 based on U.S. Census data 2010.
[pdf] Geographic Location of Newly-Arrived Immigrants in the U.S. Census 2010 (+)
A chart showing the percentage of foreign-born population who have been in the U.S. 0-5 years. Based on U.S. Census data 2010.
[pdf] Top 5 Languages Spoken at Home (+)
A chart of the top 5 languages spoken at home by state. Based on U.S. Census data 2010.


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First Paragraph, first sentence of release should read Topping out at 97 miles per hour (instead of Topping out at 73.7 miles per hour).
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Car successfully completes demonstration laps at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Topping out at 97 miles per hour, former IndyCar driver and current Verizon IndyCar Series Team owner Sam Schmidt today drove a race car for the first time since he was paralyzed in a practice accident in 2000. Driving a modified 2014 C7 Corvette Stingray dubbed the SAM Project, meaning "semi-autonomous motorcar," Schmidt becomes the first person with quadriplegia to drive a race car at speed using integrated advanced electronics.
Schmidt drove four consecutive demonstration laps today prior to Old National Armed Forces Pole Day qualifying for the 98th Running of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race.
The SAM Project is a collaborative venture between Arrow Electronics, Inc., Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Schmidt Peterson Motor Sports and Falci Adaptive Motorsports, a nonprofit. Arrow led the development of the SAM car and the systems integration, as well as the engineering of specific systems for the car. Ball led the modification of the human-to-machine interface and driver-guidance system. Colorado neurosurgeon and Falci Adaptive Motorsports founder Dr. Scott Falci advocated for the modification of a Corvette for FAM's adaptive motorsports program for the spinal-cord injured and recruited Schmidt to the SAM Project. The Air Force Research Laboratory monitored Schmidt's biometrics during laps, as well as collecting data in how he interacted with the guidance systems.
"Racing has been a dream of mine since I was five years old," said Schmidt. "I thought I'd never be able to race again after my accident, but this vehicle made it possible. While I was in the SAM vehicle, I was unencumbered by my disability. It was the most normal I have felt in nearly 15 years. It was amazing."
While autonomous vehicles exist today, a race car for individuals paralyzed from the shoulders down did not exist until the SAM Project. Moreover, the SAM Project's objectives are not to transfer control of a vehicle to technology but rather to enable disabled drivers to enjoy the driving experience by leveraging the power of technology.
The vehicle integrates the following technology:
- Infrared camera system – four sensors mounted on Schmidt's hat connected to infrared cameras mounted on the dashboard that detect his head tilt motions in order to steer and accelerate.
- Bite sensor – Schmidt holds a device in his mouth and bites down on it to slow down or brake.
- Computer system – a central processor collects signals from the camera system and bite sensor to control the car's acceleration, braking and steering,
- GPS technology – a guidance system that keeps the car within 1.5 meters from the edge of the track. Schmidt has a width of approximately 10 meters to steer within.
- Safety system – a set of software algorithms that ensure commands sent to the computer system are real and defined within the vehicle's limits.
Following Indy 500 festivities, the SAM vehicle will be brought to events for public inspiration and education, disabled community awareness and business development opportunities. The project also supports Conquer Paralysis Now, Schmidt's foundation dedicated to finding a cure for paralysis.
The SAM (semi-autonomous motorcar) Project is an innovative project in which a 2014 Corvette C7 Stingray car has been modified with integrated advanced electronics and a human-to-machine interface so a qualified quadriplegic driver can safely operate it under racetrack conditions. The concept of modifying cars so disabled racers might return to the racetrack is championed by Colorado neurosurgeon Dr. Scott Falci. The SAM Project is a collaborative venture between Arrow Electronics, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., the Air Force Research Laboratory, Schmidt Peterson Motor Sports and Falci Adaptive Motorsports. More information about the project is available at http://arrowsamcar.com/.
About Arrow Electronics
Arrow Electronics (www.arrow.com) is a global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for more than 100,000 original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers and commercial customers through a global network of more than 460 locations in 58 countries. Based in Englewood, Colo., Arrow guides today's innovators to a better tomorrow – a world of Five Years Out. Five Years Out is a community of builders and engineers who navigate the path between possibility and practicality. Arrow is guiding the SAM project forward to improve mobility for the disabled and demonstrate the power of innovation. For more information about Arrow and the SAM project, visit www.arrow.com.
About Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., a subsidiary of the Ball Corporation and based in Broomfield, Colo., prides itself on its agility to innovate and strength to deliver for defense, intelligence, civil and commercial customers. The company advances science and protects the nation through the development and manufacture of space systems, tactical defense products and geospatial information solutions. Ball is a key contributor of technical innovations for the SAM project and leads the modification of the human to machine interface and driver guidance system. www.ballaerospace.com
About the Air Force Research Laboratory
The Air Force Research Laboratory is a scientific research organization operated by the United States Air Force Materiel Command dedicated to leading the discovery, development, and integration of affordable aerospace warfighting technologies, planning and executing the Air Force science and technology program, and provide warfighting capabilities to United States air, space, and cyberspace forces. www.wpafb.af.mil/afrl
About Falci Adaptive Motorsports
Falci Adaptive Motorsports is a registered Colorado non-profit. Its mission is to provide opportunity, education and inspiration to the public through disabled racing initiatives and advancements in spinal cord injury research encompassing spinal cord regeneration techniques, drug development for spinal cord injury neuropathic pain, and development of adaptive technologies for those with spinal cord injury and disabilities in general. One of FAM's priorities is to demonstrate the SAM vehicle to advance new mobility systems and lower the barriers that discourage and isolate the disabled community. www.falcimotorsports.org
About Schmidt Peterson Motor Sports
Schmidt Peterson Motor Sports is a racing team owned by quadriplegic Sam Schmidt and partners. SPMS competes in both IndyCar and Indy Lights. The SAM C7 was modified at its racing garage in Indianapolis. SPMS's priorities are for Sam Schmidt to safely drive at speed and to support the disabled community through his related charity, Conquer Paralysis Now. www.spmindycar.com
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Recent record snowstorms throughout the United States may rekindle in some wandering minds an age-old question: Exactly why are no two snowflakes alike?
The question also continues to flummox some scientists.
"This stuff falls out of the sky and we don't know how it works and we're naturally curious," said Kenneth Libbrecht, professor of physics at California Institute of Technology
Studying snowflakes, Libbrecht points out, is strictly for curiosity's sake. The discovery of why each flake is unique is not expected to have much of an impact on anything.
The effort to learn about snowflakes is kind of like brain candy. Indeed, many great minds have applied themselves to finding out why, such as philosopher Rene Descartes and nuclear physicist Ukichiro Nakaya.
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This is where the Caltech snow crystal research team comes in.
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By growing snow crystals in the laboratory under controlled conditions, the research team discovered that they develop differently depending on the temperature and how wet the air is.
A typical snowflake begins by forming around a speck of dust. From this unassuming beginning it grows into a tiny hexagonal prism, just a few microns in size. The initial symmetry of the snowflake results from the intrinsic molecular structure of ice.
As the crystal grows, it's often blown about in the sky. The air and temperature around the crystal are constantly changing. Snowflakes are extremely sensitive; even a small change in these conditions can lead to different growth patterns.
The final shape of the crystal reflects these growth conditions. The longer the snowflake is blown about in the skies, the more complex the resulting snow crystal.
"No two crystals have the same history so they don't grow in the same way," said Libbrecht.
And, he added, no two have ever been the same, or ever will be.
To date, the Caltech team does not understand how temperature actually affects growth. To understand this process they are carrying out a number of experiments to study the physics of how snow crystals form.
The experiment that Libbrecht likes best uses a half-meter diameter copper tank that is chilled by cooling coils soldered to its body. Two buckets of heated water are placed under the tank. These give off vapor needed to grow crystals.
"We drop tiny flecks of dry ice in the tank which nucleates crystals," Libbrecht said.
The crystals start off very small — some are only a micron in size. As they fall, they grow. The researchers measure this growth.
When the crystals hit the bottom of the tank, they're photographed and measured. By altering the conditions within the tank, researchers can establish what temperature and air conditions produce what kind of crystals.
The tank allows the researchers to set up experiments in a controlled environment. No unexpected variables are allowed to interfere with the crystal's growth. A controlled number of the crystals are produced so they don't bump into each other upsetting their growth patterns.
"It is a very simple experiment but we need to do it very many times under very controlled conditions in order to quantify the results," Libbrecht said.
Another experiment Libbrecht's team carries out involves the creation of "designer" snowflakes.
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"We have a wire going into the chamber charged to 2,000 volts. From this we grow thin needles of ice — like No. 2 pencils — hexagonal columns that can get very long," Libbrecht said.
"We can grow these and then turn off the voltage and lower the temperature to minus-15. When we do this, a star plate crystal will grow on the end of the needle; it looks like a flower on a stick."
By moving this plate up and down the researchers can change the temperature and so program plates or columns or arms or side branches — all on command.
"It's not clear whether this will be useful scientific stuff, but they make for an interesting study. When we're feeling artistic, we grow stars."
Libbrecht admits that his team will not have any definitive answers any time soon. "It'll be years rather than months before we have concrete results."
"We're not doing the research for any particular application," Libbrecht admits. "It's a nice challenge to find out why these crystals grow the way they do…. You can learn things from unusual places."
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Osama bin Laden reportedly handled some of the classified cables Private Bradley Manning is accused of passing to media whistleblowing organisation WikiLeaks, US military prosecutors told an Army judge.
The al-Qaeda leader, who US Navy Seals killed in Abbottabad in Pakistan in 2011, requested and received the military reports and State Department cables from another al-Qaeda member, after Manning allegedly provided them to Wikileaks, prosecutor Captain Joe Morrow claimed during a pretrial hearing at Fort Meade, Maryland.
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The charges against him include violating the 1917 Espionage Act and "aiding the enemy," which is a capital offence. Prosecutors have claimed they would not seek the death penalty, but if convicted on all charges, Manning would face life imprisonment without parole.
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By CJ Rachel: As a former Catholic I still pay attention to issues concerning the Church. Last week was exciting for my Catholic brothers and sisters not just because Obama was too busy lunching around D.C. with a few R.I.N.O.s to tell the church how it will conduct it's businesses and what beliefs will be permitted, but because a new Pope was elected. The Pope has this unique position that allows him to go just about anywhere and speak to almost any situation. I hope this can continue with the new Pope because the world seems to be moving in two different directions very rapidly. There are people who want to look to government and a "leader" for everything and people who want to be self governed and look to God to lead them. I pray that Pope Francis will stand with the latter.
So he dives right in smirking and all puffed up with the same air of smugness and self righteousness that I'm used to seeing on Bill Maher. It was extremely off-putting but I endured. He begins by inquiring about the beginning – the creation. He asks in a condescending manner: "Adam and Eve, did they literally live in the garden of Eden and usurp the evolutionary process?" Dr. Jeffress immediately got blown off because he answered "yes". I wondered if O'reilly or any of the secular Catholics I've known have gone back into the Bible on their own with an open mind and heart or delved deeper into the arguments and evidence for and against evolution and the age of the earth once they've been out of school? Have they ever looked up an article by a Christian Molecular Biologist just to explore another point of view? Most of the secular Catholics I know are conservatives and they became conservative because eventually they questioned the mantra of liberalism. So why don't they bother in the same manner to question what they've been taught regarding science and the bible? I know the Catholics and secularists in my circle believe in supernatural phenomenon like demonic possession or ghostly activity but they can't believe the Bible?
Anyway, back to the beginning. Something intriguing about verse 1 in Genesis, "In the beginning God created the heavens & the earth." And verse 2, "Now, the earth was formless & empty…" The heavens & earth already existed before creation starts later in verse 3. The word "now" in verse 2 indicates there was a "then" state and the word "was" I've learned translates to "became". Remember the Bible is God's book to man concerning his story. Some speculate that our account of creation is also the restoration of earth. Moreover, there are verses that speak of Lucifer (before he was Satan) having widespread trade (like in the heavens and on earth) but being expelled from Heaven and cast to the earth where he took one third of the angels with him. And God made a spectacle of him before kings and all the nations who knew him were appalled at him. Some speculate Satan and his angels destroyed the earth along with whatever sort of kingdoms (human or other) and nations were on it. This would make the earth very old.
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Apparently, developing games for the PlayStation 3 is roughly comparable to that one time we pushed a wheelbarrow full of lovely, scantily clad ladies up and down the beach — "exotic and tough." Speaking to VideoGamer.com, EALA producer Amer Ajami used those words to elaborate on the decision to halt PS3 development of the Hitler-free real-time strategy romp, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3.
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