At Caminar Latino – Latinos United for Peace and Equity, we’re leading the way on several other initiatives to assist providers in supporting children, youth, and families the intersection of domestic violence and child welfare, including SAVES, Opportunities for All, and OVW Training and Technical Assistance.
Opportunities for All: The PEACE Approach to Culturally Specific Outreach
Issue:Culturally specific organizations that address the needs of survivors of domestic violence are unaware of the availability or requirements of federal funds. Often, they lack capacity to apply for and/or manage federal grants, and have concerns related to sustainability and how federal funding may impact their work.
Big Idea: To address this issue, Caminar Latino – Latinos United for Peace and Equity (LUPE), UJIMA: the National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community, and Red Wind Consulting have partnered to provide training and technical assistance to culturally specific organizations that have minimum to no experience with federal funding.
Providing Solutions: Caminar Latino – Latinos United for Peace and Equity and project partners develop and convene regional workshops, webinars, 1-1 tailored technical assistance, and/or other outreach for potential grantees that address the culturally specific needs of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking victims.
OVW Training and Technical Assistance for Direct Victim Services for Children and Youth
Issue:OVW grantees that work with child and youth survivors face a myriad of challenges related to the successful provision of effective services. These include having little focus on culturally relevant prevention and resilience building strategies and providing these in tandem with adult survivor response strategies. This develops current evidence around best practice that lacks cultural relevance and many best practice models are implemented without considering cultural and community fit. The lack of racial equity during implementation of collaborative approaches impedes the success of these strategies.
Big Idea:Caminar Latino-- Latinos United for Peace and Equity (LUPE) and project partners National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV), the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare (KU) and Futures Without Violence (FUTURES) provide basic and advanced training and technical assistance to OVW Children and Youth (CY) grantees to address the interventions of children, youth, and families who are victims of and/or impacted by domestic violence.
Providing Solutions:Through a learning collaborative, Caminar Latino- LUPE and project partners offer trainings, workshops, and storytelling panels to OVW grantees who provide direct services to children, youth, and families. Grantee service providers build their skill level and learn strategies that not only meaningfully engage children and youth, but they do so by drawing on racial equity and intersectional approaches. Workshops and trainings focus on capacity building specifically relating to culturally relevant resilience building strategies for children and youth exposed to domestic violence, as well as effective strategies in the provision of direct victim services for marginalized children and youth (POC, Native American, LGBTQ2S+, etc.).