Technical Assistance Provider

This organization trains and coaches community teams in designing, implementing, and evaluating their customized response to sexual violence. Technical assistance is available to GTEAP, Rural, or STOP grantees at no cost.

This organization works to improve the way systems and services respond to violence against Indian women.  They work to improve safety for Native women who experience battering, sexual assault, and stalking by assisting tribes through training, technical assistance, and resource material specifically addressing violence against American Indian/Alaskan Native women.

Transforming Communities: Technical Assistance, Training & Resource Center (TC-TAT) is an award winning violence prevention project, based in the California Bay Area, with a key emphasis on the prevention of violence against women. A division of Marin Abused Women’s Services (founded in 1977), TC-TAT carries out primary violence prevention work through its extensive training, research and consultation infrastructure and hands-on community work.

As a training and resource center, TC-TAT fosters effective social change through collaboration, learning communities, effective state and national policy, addressing the emerging needs of the violence prevention field, evaluations and trainings in effectiveness, culturally competent services and resources, all with a focus on primary prevention. TC-TAT reflects a combination of applied experience in primary prevention, best practices derived through research, and training of other practitioners.

Manavi (meaning “primal woman” in Sanskrit) is a tax-exempt and not-for-profit organization that was founded in February 1985. Six South Asian women founded Manavi as a consciousness-raising group. Within a short time, demands for help from battered women changed the focus of this budding organization. Manavi became a pragmatic organization determined to put theory into practice. It is the first organization in the U.S. to concentrate on the issue of violence against women in the South Asian immigrant community. Although Manavi is located and works with South Asian women who reside in New Jersey, its focus is also national and international. Manavi is an organization for South Asian women, with a mission to end violence against women and assist women to progress toward self-reliance and autonomy.

Korean Community Center of the East Bay (KCCEB) is a multi-service agency serving the Korean American community throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Shimtuh is the domestic violence and sexual assault program of KCCEB. Shimtuh offers crisis line support, domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy and counseling for women and children, and community organizing and education on domestic and sexual violence in Korean faith-based communities and other sectors of the community. Products include Korean-specific videos, curriculum and pamphlets on domestic violence. All services and education are offered in Korean and English.

KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights is an educational, charitable organization with a 501(c) (3). We are committed to supporting human rights worldwide. Our target audience is women, the legal community, and society at large. In particular, KARAMAH is committed to lead the effort to empower Muslim women to define their own contributions and forms of participation within their communities through legal education, leadership development, and enhanced understanding of Islamic law.

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center-Office of State and Local Training provides a 5-day instructor development (train-the-trainer) training. The participants receive powerpoints, lesson plans and all the resources necessary to redeliver OVW approved curriculum.

The Farmworker Sexual Violence Technical Assistance Project is spearheaded by California Rural Legal Assistance in partnership with Esperanza: The Immigrant Women’s Legal Initiative of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Lideres Campesinas and the Victim Rights Law Center.

Together, we provide OVW grantees with:

One-on-one consultation on legal issues and strategies for lawyers and legal advocates on meeting the legal needs of farmworker sexual assault victims; three educational guides to assist legal service providers, criminal justice professionals and victim service providers in addressing the sexual assault of farmworkers; a farmworker safety plan in English and Spanish; a safety planning guide in English and Spanish designed for advocates to use with farmworkers; safety planning webinars; workshops for lawyers, judges and law enforcement agencies at national conferences; and regional trainings in farmworker communities in Arizona, California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

Specific areas of expertise include but are not limited to: * civil legal remedies for sexual assault victims including housing, education, public benefits, employment, immigration and privacy; outreach strategies that are culturally and linguistically appropriate for farmworkers; cultural considerations when working with farmworkers; safety planning particular to farmworkers, including those living in labor camps; holistic representation of the comprehensive needs of farmworker victims of sexual violence; integration of the legal needs of farmworkers sexual violence victims into a coordinated community response; basic legal rights of farmworkers; and knowledge of the agricultural industry including its structure and practices.