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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 […]

In this webinar Esperanza United’s CEO, Patti Tototzintle, will explore sustainable approaches to serving communities in your organization. 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 to increase the organizational capacity of rural, tribal, and […]

This webinar will focus on federal funding questions that Casa de Esperanza often recieves about the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA), the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and the Family Violence Prevention Services Act (FVPSA). We will discuss which funds are available at federal and state levels and how culturally-specific Latin@ […]

This plenary will focus on the lived realities of the AfroLatina diaspora and their resiliency in the face of violence and various issues facing communities. Yvette will share her experience and learnings from the field to support survivors of violence through storytelling, poetry, and spoken word. 

This webinar reviews the still-emerging body of research on T-IPV at the intersections of race and immigration with a focus on TransLatinx populations. The webinar relies on interview-based data from T-IPV survivors as well as a condensed review of existing data stemming from the US Transgender Survey. Ultimately, this webinar emphasizes […]

This webinar will describe the importance of culturally responsive methods in engaging survivors of human trafficking to provide necessary supports. This framework is a holistic approach to assess human trafficking underscoring the importance of survivor trust and wellbeing.