Ensuring Meaningful Access to Limited English Proficient Survivors

Free Webinar
May 21, 2018
2:00PM-3:30PM

This is the first webinar in a 3-part webinar series, including Developing an Effective Language Access Planand Q&A Session: Developing an Effective Language Access Plan.

Audience

Advocates and allied professionals

Summary

Ensuring meaningful access to limited English proficient (LEP) survivors of domestic and sexual violence is recognizing how gender bias and cultural identity may prevent access to services. Survivors of diverse communities may face challenges when systems of help are not responsive to their cultural identity. Recognizing and respecting individual cultural differences are important to sensitive and effective work with survivors. In addition, differences in concepts of suffering and healing can influence how individuals may experience the effects of gender based victimization and interaction with systems of help. 
Objectives:
By the end of this presentation participants will be better able to:

• Assess culturally-specific barriers survivors may face and identify strategies for overcoming those challenges. 
•  Enhance access to services by fostering more culturally responsive systems of advocacy, criminal justice professionals and social services. 
• Identify role-specific responsibilities in implementing culturally responsive practices in the various systems of help.

Presenters

Jose Juan Lara, Jr., M.S., has been involved in the movement against gender violence since 1999 and has facilitated workshops at national, state, and local conferences on crisis intervention, systems advocacy for victims of family and sexual violence, and LGBTQ victims of interpersonal violence. Prior to coming to the National Latin@ Network, Jose Juan was the Senior Victim Services Program Specialist for Texas Advocacy Project in Austin; Legal Advocate Program Coordinator for Friendship of Women, Inc. in Brownsville; Case Manager Supervisor/Volunteer Coordinator for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Cameron and Willacy Counties; and Director of Legal Services for the Family Crisis Center, Inc. in Harlingen. Jose Juan serves on the Board of Directors for the Texas Victim Services Association and allgo, a statewide queer people of color organization (originally, Austin Latina/o Lesbian and Gay Organization) and a consultant for Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center. 
Lumarie Orozco, M.A., is a community psychologist and project manager for the National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities, a project of Casa de Esperanza. Lumarie’s areas of expertise and interest include Latin@ youth development and advocacy, community leadership, community engagement, language access, organizational development including assessment and capacity building — and the development and implementation of culturally responsive interventions that target Latin@ communities. Lumarie works with nationally recognized colleagues and other national technical assistance providers to inform the practices of the country’s most innovative, community based and dynamic non-profit organizations to achieve dramatic social change in the fields of dating and domestic violence, and sexual assault. Currently, Lumarie provides training and strategic technical assistance services to the Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Initiative (DVHPI), which seeks to enhance the response to high risk for lethality of victims of domestic violence from racially and ethnically diverse communities. Previously, Lumarie managed Casa de Esperanza’s community engagement initiatives including Fuerza Unida (community engagement, leadership development) and Youth Initiatives (leadership, peer education and advocacy). Lumarie is a 2011 Practitioner Fellow with the National Institute on Out of School Time, and a 2012 Practitioner Fellow with the Robert Bowne Foundation National Writing Project.

Questions?

For questions about the webinar, please contact Tatiana Piper at tpiper@pcar.org.

For questions about registration, please contact Erin Levine-Krynock at elevine-krynock@pcar.org. 

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