KASAP is pleased to offer three upcoming webinar opportunities designed to strengthen advocacy, preparedness, and legal knowledge for professionals supporting survivors across Kentucky. This spring, join national and state experts for Timely Tools: Supporting Immigrant Survivors, a two-part series focused on immigration protections, benefits, and access to justice; Surviving the Storm: Real-World Insights on Disaster Readiness, a panel on disaster preparedness and trauma-informed response for survivor-serving agencies; and Employment Rights of Sexual Assault Survivors in Kentucky, an in-depth training on leveraging federal, state, and local employment laws to support survivors. These free virtual trainings provide practical tools, current legal guidance, and opportunities for cross-sector learning. Registration details are available below.
Timely Tools: Supporting Immigrant Survivors
Join us for a 2-part webinar series to learn about advocating for immigrant survivors!
WITH: Leslye Orloff, Director of NIWAP
WHEN: Both sessions are from 2-4p ET/1-3p CT
Thursday, February 12: Enhancing Protections for Immigrant Survivors
Thursday, February 26: Promoting Immigrant Survivor’s Access to Benefits, Health Care, and Protection Orders in Kentucky
WHAT:
Session 1: Enhancing Protections for Immigrant Survivors
Armed with up-to-date legally accurate information victim advocates, attorneys, health care professionals, and law enforcement and prosecution agencies can enhance the important role they play supporting immigrant survivors of sexual and domestic violence, child abuse and human trafficking. Participants in this two-part webinar will learn best practices for assisting immigrant survivors seeking legal immigration relief, health care, benefits and accessing justice system protections. Part I will discuss new tools victim advocates can use in safety planning with immigrant survivors that meet current and emerging needs. Topics and tools to be covered include VAWA confidentiality’s statutory protections that can help deter victims’ deportation, advocate’s role in trauma informed interviewing and support for victims pursuing U and T visas, and the importance for immigrant survivors of building and sustaining collaborative relationships with law enforcement and prosecution agency staff.
Session 2: Promoting Immigrant Survivor’s Access to Benefits, Health Care, and Protection Orders in Kentucky
As immigrant survivors of sexual assault file for victim-based forms of legal immigration relief, their ability to access benefits and services expands and there is a significant increase in survivors’ willingness to seek civil protection orders. Identifying sex and labor trafficking co-occurring with sexual and family violence results in greater access to life saving benefits more quickly for child and adult victims. Webinar attendees will learn how to quickly access legally correct information on which benefits and services immigrant survivors and their children are eligible to receive in Kentucky. Topics will include: SANE exams; follow-up health care options for immigrant sexual assault survivors; and creative civil protection order remedies needed by immigrant survivors. To support participants’, work with immigrant survivors the webinar will demonstrate how participants can use NIWAP’s online benefits map and state-by-state charts.
Register here:https://forms.gle/rZ7yuHSmxZBjohZn7
Surviving the Storm: Real-World Insights on Disaster Readiness
WITH: John Hunt, Kentucky Department for Public Health
Heather Lancaster, Sanctuary, Inc.
Vicie Pelfrey, Kentucky River Community Care
Matthew Sparks, Community Organizer
Jeffrey Young, UKY Cooperative Extension Program
Moderator: Deborah Jackson, ZeroV
WHEN: Tuesday, March 10, 2-4p ET/1-3p CT
WHAT: Please join KASAP and ZeroV as they host a panel discussion focused on disaster preparedness and response as it relates to interpersonal violence and supporting survivors. Natural disasters can significantly impact survivors of interpersonal violence, while simultaneously disrupting access to critical support services. This panel will explore how agencies can prepare for, respond to, and coordinate services during disasters in ways that prioritize survivor safety, autonomy, and continuity of care. Panelists will discuss best practices in preparedness planning, cross-sector collaboration, and trauma-informed disaster response, with a particular emphasis on the unique needs of survivors and the role of advocacy programs before, during, and after emergencies.
Register here: https://forms.gle/QpMtyM5JptPd67hF8
Employment Rights of Sexual Assault Survivors in Kentucky
WITH: Bella Book, Futures Without Violence
Michelle Fisher, AppalReD
Michele Henry, JD, Labor Attorney
Katina Miner, Kentucky Legal Aid
Juan Peña, Kentucky Commission on Human Rights
WHEN: Thursday, March 12, 2-4p ET/1-3p CT
WHAT:In this training, participants will learn when a survivor’s sexual assault may impact their employment and practice identifying when laws may address a survivor’s employment issues. Attendees will hear from attorneys who support survivors and representatives from the Kentucky Human Rights Commission about how federal, state, and local law can be leveraged to help survivors get the employment support they need.
Register here:https://forms.gle/SVrsnsgmWTWkyTrz7
