Tools

Accessing resources: Federal benefits Federal laws governing benefit programs require federal agencies that administer the benefits to:  (1) develop guidance and eligibility requirements for “federal means-tested public benefits” and (2) identify which of their programs belong in that category. Although there is no statutory definition of “federal means-tested public benefits,” the […]

In early 2014, Esperanza United (formerly Casa de Esperanza) conducted a national assessment of the language accessibility of court systems to survivors of sexual and domestic violence (S/DV), who have limited English proficiency (LEP).  

The socio-ecological model is a prevention framework created by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). It is a tool to consider the complexity between individual, relationship, community, and societal factors to understand the factors that influence violence.

This tip sheet was created by the National Organization of Asians & Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence & Monsoon Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity for the Working with Student Populations Campus Consortium from Esperanza United (formerly Casa de Esperanza). It is a guide for educational institutions and programs to prevent sexual […]

This Campus Grant Program document is a glossary of English acronyms translated into Spanish.  

This tool by Campus describes the “It’s Your Business” curriculum, which provides students, faculty and staff at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with strategies to prevent gendered violence on campuses.

In the following document, you will find each campus grant area and some examples as to how to integrate cultural competence in each of them.  

Esperanza United is a federally-designed resource center on mobilizing Latin@s against domestic violence. What follows below is a list of the areas we train on as established aspects of our expertise.This document outlines Esperanza United’s technical assistance training options for culturally-based organizations.

This tool by Campus Technical Assistance and Resource Project includes workplace tips for cultivating trauma-informed meeting spaces and virtual meeting facilitation strategies.

These tools were developed by Esperanza United in collaboration with the Center for Violence University of Colorado Denver Domestic, provider of technical assistance for Respuesta Comunitaria Coordinada (CCR). This set of tools provides educational institutions with strategies for developing a coordinated community response to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault […]