Webinars

This webinar for Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month features Nallely Castro Montoya and Lois Gutierrez of Esperanza United (formerly Casa de Esperanza). They will explore common miscommunications between Latin@ parents and their child(ren) and challenges youth face in building healthy relationships. They will also discuss gender, the media’s affect on values, […]

This webinar will explore security risks of using technology, and the different ways technology is used to stalk, abuse and harass victims and survivors. We will present useful tools for service providers to assess aggression. We will also offer suggestions on how to properly document technology abuse and develop technology abuse […]

November is Runaway and Homeless Youth Awareness Month. In honor of this month, Esperanza United (formerly Casa de Esperanza) is collaborating with the NW Network of Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian, and Gay Survivors of Abuse to present a webinar on Latin@ and LGBTQ youth realities and the intersections of violence, homelessness and […]

This webinar will focus on the intersections of homophobia, heterosexism and racism that often enhance negative stereotypes associated with being Latin@ and LGBT.  The presenter will discuss the impact of language on our anti-oppression work as well as other elements that complicate the experiences of victimization of members of the Latin@ […]

The webinar will give an overview of the U visa, and will provide advocates with tools and knowledge on the crime of stalking. This will aid in the identification of the crime and will provide strategies to prove the “substantial physical or emotional abuse” requirement for the U visa. An immigrant […]

This webinar features Olga Trujillo, Director of Education and Advocacy at Esperanza United (formerly Casa de Esperanza: National Latin@ Network). The presenter shares a personal experience of domestic and sexual violence and how poverty, language, culture, religious beliefs, and immigration can complicate intervention. 

Please join Esperanza United (formerly Casa de Esperanza) as we release the Building Evidence Toolkit, a free, bilingual, online tool designed to strengthen the evaluation capacity of Latino-serving community-based organizations (CBOs) working in the field of domestic violence. It was developed in partnership with four CBOs working with unique Latino communities […]

This session will highlight the importance of shifting from language access to language justice, and building systems that support Limited English Proficient (LEP) individuals. 

Chicanx have a long history of contributions to the filed of psychology and mental health. Starting from our ancestral knowledge and healing, to the publication of “Chicano Psychology” in 1977 up until our current contributions. This webinar will cover foundational concepts of “Browning” counseling, describe traditional/individualistic concepts in mental health can […]

In this webinar we will explore finance-related policies and practices that protect organizational health and viability. This project was supported by a grant awarded to us by the Office of Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice, with the goal of increasing the organizational capacity of rural, tribal, and culturally-specific and […]