Community of Color

MIWRC programs provide support, advocacy, and activities that utilize traditional teachings and other cultural strengths to encourage healing, build resilience, and counter the normalization of violence.

Our program departments collaborate to:

• Empower Native American women to live violence-free lives

• Provide a safe place for women to explore their life options

• Challenge systems that disenfranchise Native American women

• Create a more just environment for all women and their families

The Indigenous Women’s Life Net (IWLN) program provides supportive services for American Indian survivors of sexual and domestic assault. The program offers the following:

• Housing advocacy
• Domestic and sexual assault advocacy
• Transportation assistance
• Case management
• Life skills
• Cultural healing activities
• Weekly education groups

Our mission is to improve the lives of Portuguese speakers in Massachusetts and help them become contributing, active participants in American society while maintaining a strong ethnic identity and a sense of community.

We work with and for the Brazilian, Cabo Verdean, Portuguese and other Portuguese-speaking communities to increase access and remove barriers to health, education and social services through direct services, advocacy, leadership, and community development.

Services include:

• citizenship assistance
• domestic violence/sexual assault advocacy
• driver alcohol education
• elder services
• employment & career assistance
• family support
• HIV/Sexually transmitted infections
• immigration integration
• intimate partner abuse educational program
• translations/notary public

Manavi provides a unique blend of culturally specific support services and intervention methods through Western advocacy practices and linguistically traditional techniques. As a direct service provider, social change agent and diversity trainer in the mainstream movement to end violence against women, Manavi simultaneously addresses both the immediate needs of women facing abuse and the long-term vision of establishing peaceful communities free from gender-based violence.

Manavi offers culturally specific and linguistically accessible services to survivors of violence. Manavi believes in centralizing the services women need to be empowered.

The services we provide include but are not limited to the following:

• Crisis intervention and Advocacy (Project Raahat)
• Culture specific counseling (Project Sabala)
• Court and medical accompaniment
• Women’s support group
• Legal clinic and referrals (Project Insaaf)
• Immigration relief and gender asylum (Project Zamin)
• Interpreter services
• Economic Empowerment (Project Samarth)
• Safe home (Project Ashiana)
• Transportation as needed
• Outreach and education (Project Rokeya)
• Training and technical assistance

We are a community of care where burdens are lifted, dignity is restored, and lives are changed. Living Well provides an array of services including but not limited to:

Individuals who need help in overcoming difficulties or in taking that “next step” toward personal growth.

• Couples who are dating, engaged, or married. Our counselors help satisfied couples move toward deeper levels of intimacy and help dissatisfied couples assess their relationship to determine ways they can move effectively toward meaningful change.
• Families hat require help in learning how to cope with a variety issues including abuse,rebellion, parenting, divorce, blended families, grief, or trauma.
• Groups that are routinely formed to address specific issues in a shared setting. Group topics include anxiety, depression, divorce recovery, strengthening marriages, and parenting.
• Seminar/Retreat /Presentations- our providers are expert trainers and presenters, with years of experience providing community training and consultation to businesses, churches ,private and public entities.

The LA VIDA Partnership program with Community Health and Social Service Center (CHASS) works to eradicate domestic violence and sexual assault in Southwest Detroit and Southeast Michigan.

Services Include:

• Community building and awareness building
• Training of agency-based service providers and clergy
• Screening and referral of families in crisis
• Confidential and non-judgmental support
• Support groups and other interventions targeting Southwest Detroit and Latinx community
• Short term counseling for women, court advocacy, and translation for monolingual Spanish speakers
• School-based prevention activities
• Holistic legal referrals for survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault
• Personal Protection Order services
• Youth services, including counseling for direct victims of dating violence and sexual assault provided at local schools

The Community Health and Social Services (CHASS) Center, Inc., is a community-based, not for profit organization formed to develop, promote, and provide comprehensive, accessible and affordable quality primary health care and support services to all residents of the community, with special emphasis on the underserved African-American and Latino population. CHASS is committed to the overall well-being of the community.

KFAM’s mission is to empower underserved Korean American and Asian Pacific Islander families through culturally responsive programs. KFAM specializes in providing linguistically and culturally appropriate services through its bilingual and bicultural staff.

Services include:

• Asian foster family initiative & agency
• child & adult wellness
• clinical counseling
• domestic violence advocacy

The Korean American Family Service Center (KAFSC) is a leading, nonprofit organization that supports and empowers adults, youth and children to lead safe and healthy lives based on dignity, compassion and mutual respect. We are committed to preventing and ending domestic violence, sexual assault, and relationship abuse, and creating a violence-free society. Our counseling, education and advocacy programs for individuals and families in the New York Tri-State area are provided in a culturally and linguistically appropriate setting.

Services include:

• 24 hour hotline
• counseling
• legal & social service advocacy
• job training
• housing
• children & youth services
• community outreach & education

Kiran's mission is to end the cycle of abuse and to serve and empower South Asian victims of domestic violence in North Carolina by providing culturally specific services and comprehensive economic, social and community resources.

We empower victims/survivors by providing access to information, education, and other necessary social and economic support that best reflects each person's interests and needs.

HAWA’s mission is to advocate for social justice within the Hmong and Southeast Asian community through collective and inclusive action.

At HAWA, our work and the way in which we do our work are guided by the following values:

• Centering our work around those who identify as Hmong women who are MOST impacted and vulnerable to cultural and systemic oppression
• Sisterhood-building as a way to foster support and love for ALL Hmong and non-Hmong sisters and brother allies
• Collective action to engage and mobilize community to act for positive change
• Social justice advocacy to guide our work
• Healing as an ongoing embedded practice to repair and restore our sense of who we are

Programs & Services Include:

• Youth empowering leadership and community organizing programs
• Sexual assault support and advocacy
• Domestic violence support and advocacy
• LGBTQ advocacy
• Civic engagement