language access

  • Language Access for Advocates

    This webinar will discuss lessons learned and experiences from the field around ensuring meaningful and effective communication with all survivors, with a special focus on situations that involve multiple language needs, languages of limited diffusion and scarce resources. Presenters will...
  • Language Access Tip Sheets and Palm Cards

    Advocating for Language Access for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Crime Survivors (Deaf/HOH) Palm Card This palm card provides victim advocates with useful phrases for advocating for the language access needs of Deaf and Hard of Hearing crime victims.  ...
  • Language Access: Keeping Systems Accountable During Emergencies

    COVID-19 has forced victim service providers to adapt and change to new ways of creating access for their clients. Gaps that existed before, including a lack of language access being provided, were made much more evident during the current health...
  • Language Access: The Lessons that COVID-19 has Reinforced

    The current COVID-19 crisis is not over yet; however, in a short time we have seen how gaps in the system for language access are exacerbated by a pandemic. Did we know what to do in a crisis? Were we...
  • Supporting Survivors with a History of Incarceration: Interview with Eddy Zheng and Ben Wang

    Kaitlin Kall of the Vera Institute of Justice and the National Resource Center for Reaching Victims spoke with Co-Directors Ben Wang and Eddy Zheng of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC). APSC provides direct support to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated...
  • Language Access for Law Enforcement

    Leslye Orloff, Director of the National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP) and Wendy Lau, with the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence lead an insightful conversation based on the recommended practices from the Department of Justice, key elements of language...
  • Language Access Bank

    Ayuda, a legal and victim service organization in the Washington, DC area, applied for grant funding to run a centralized language service. It currently handles the language access needs of more than 90 nonprofits in the area. Their program combines...
  • Language Access Accountability: Experiences from a New York Community

    How can we hold the police accountable? Cecilia Gaston, former Executive Director of Violence Intervention Program in New York, will share lessons learned from the process of keeping New York Police Department accountable on their language access obligations, their legal...
  • Enhancing Language Access within a Child Advocacy Center Setting

    Victim service providers commonly identify communication as one of the many barriers that can impede access to services. Are you a staff or person who promotes safety and healing for children? Do you create policies/protocols for the investigations and responses...