The five award categories:
 

1. SIN Fronteras - Community Empowerment
   Eligibility: Rape crisis center, domestic violence shelter, and social service agency.
   Criteria: Generated awareness and contributed to bridging the gap among diverse, under-served immigrant and Spanish monolingual populations through bilingual risk reduction, cross training, etc.
    
2. Artista Activista - Empowerment through the Arts
   Eligibility: Individuals (artists, musicians, poets, survivors, victim advocates) or advocacy groups.
   Criteria: Used the arts as a vehicle for victim advocacy, building awareness, and/or promoting healing.
    
3. Comadre en la Lucha - Latina Leadership
   Eligibility: Executive directors, supervisors, victim advocates from local, state, or national entities.
   Criteria: Demonstrated a measurable commitment to develop and promote Latina victim advocacy leadership through innovative positions, training opportunities, board representation, and/or budget allocations.
    
4. Lucha - Social Change
   Eligibility: Individuals (survivors, allied professionals, politicians, etc.) and non-VAWA/VOCA-funded agencies and programs, businesses, and universities.
   Criteria: Actions have created a long-lasting impact.
    
5. Página Web - Bilingual Web Access
   Eligibility: Rape crisis center and domestic violence shelter websites.
   Criteria: Websites that are user friendly with easy to find “Español” tabs that include at least 1,500 (non-machine translated) words regarding victim rights, available services, and agency information in Spanish.

Learn more about all of theawards and access a nomination form.

Award recipients will be honored during Arte Sana’s “Nuestras Voces: Wise Latin@s en la Lucha” conference in November.