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WOMANKIND

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Womankind brings critical resources and deep cultural competency to help survivors of all ages find refuge, recovery, and renewal from domestic violence, human trafficking, and sexual violence. Through our programs, we offer a wide variety of services in 18+ Asian languages and dialects, including: a toll-free 24/7 multilingual helpline, safe and confidential emergency housing, culturally-informed counseling, family law and immigration legal assistance, wellness activities, creative arts therapy, support groups, and economic empowerment workshops. We are an expert in serving Asian communities, yet our services are valuable and available to all. Whether in our services or in our increasing advocacy and policy work, Womankind first centers the survivor by uplifting them to control their own lives and narratives.

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Korean American Family Service Center

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The Korean American Family Service Center (KAFSC) is a leading, nonprofit organization that supports and empowers adults, youth and children to lead safe and healthy lives based on dignity, compassion and mutual respect. We are committed to preventing and ending domestic violence, sexual assault, and relationship abuse, and creating a violence-free society. Our counseling, education and advocacy programs for individuals and families in the New York Tri-State area are provided in a culturally and linguistically appropriate setting.

Services include:

  • 24 hour hotline
  • counseling
  • legal & social service advocacy
  • job training
  • housing
  • children & youth services
  • community outreach & education
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Community/Hispanic Resource Center

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​Community Resource Center (formerly Hispanic Resource Center) is a 501 (c)(3) community-based organization founded in 1998 to promote the cultural, economic, educational and professional integration of immigrants to the already established larger community and to advocate for those in need. We aim to provide the tools to prepare new immigrant families to become self-sufficient and active members of the community.

Over our 22 years in existence, we have grown from a community initiative and referral organization to one that provides comprehensive direct client services and programs.  We provide a myriad of educational programs, case management and referral services and advocate for immigrants and low-income families in need.

 

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Garden of Hope

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Garden of Hope dedicates itself to serving, caring, and rebuilding the lives of people who have been exposed to domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking; specifically targeting its services towards the growing Chinese communities in the NYC region.

We provide hotline services, safety planning, crisis intervention, shelter options, legal referrals, advocacy and assistance with filing Orders of Protection, public welfare and crime victims compensation.

We provide outreach to the community and educate the public through broadcasts, newspaper articles, workshops and trainings to raise public awareness of issues concerning domestic violence and sexual assault.

We help prevent the cycle of domestic violence by working with children who witness or experience abuse. Prevent dating violence by educating youth. Provide free tutoring, mentoring and summer programs.

We empower survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault through counseling, support groups, vocational training, and spiritual support.

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Black Women's Blueprint

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Black Women's Blueprint works to place Black women and girls’ lives as well as their particular struggles squarely within the context of the larger racial justice concerns of Black communities and are committed to building movements where gender matters in broader social justice organizing so that all members of our communities gain social, political and economic equity. We engage in progressive research, historical documentation, policy advocacy and organizing steeped in the struggles of Black women within their diverse communities and within dominant culture.

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Arab-American Family Support Center (AAFSC)

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The Arab-American Family Support Center (AAFSC) provides culturally and linguistically competent, trauma-informed, multi-generational social services to the marginalized and under-resourced.

We prevent domestic violence, child abuse, and neglect by equipping families with the tools to succeed, offering case management services to victims of violence, and cultivating healthy relationships.

We promote mental and physical well-being, healthy relationships, and all forms of community wellness. We know that families are healthier when they are together so we fight for family reunification.

We prepare immigrant and refugee families to learn, work, succeed, volunteer, give back, and lead productive lives using our culturally and linguistically competent, trauma-informed model.

We communicate the needs of the marginalized to partners and policymakers, aiding New York’s most vulnerable populations.

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Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER) Deborah Cashman Tue, 02/08/2011
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Started by Columbia University students in 2000, Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER) is the only organization that fights sexual violence and rape culture by empowering student-led campaigns to reform college sexual assault policies. An all-volunteer collective, SAFER facilitates student organizing through a comprehensive training manual; in-person workshops and trainings; free follow-up mentoring; our Campus Sexual Assault Policies Database; and a growing online resource library and network for student organizers. SAFER firmly believes that sexual violence is both influenced by and contributes to multiple forms of oppression, including racism, sexism, and homo/transphobia, and view our anti-sexual violence work through a broader anti-oppression lens. Committed to social change through community mobilization, SAFER arms students with the tools needed to mobilize communities and make lasting change on campus.

 

National Resource Center on LGBT Aging

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The National Resource Center on LGBT Aging (lgbtagingcenter.org) is the country's first and only technical assistance resource center aimed at improving the quality of services and supports offered to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older adults. Established in 2010 through a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging provides training, technical assistance and educational resources to aging providers, LGBT organizations and LGBT older adults.   The National Resource Center on LGBT Aging is a project of Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) in partnership with:        * American Society on Aging      * Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging and Longevity, Hunter College      * CenterLink      * FORGE Transgender Aging Network      * GRIOT Circle      * The LGBT Aging Project      * National Association of Area Agencies on Aging      * National Council on Aging’s National Institute of Senior Centers      * Openhouse      * PHI
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Anti-Defamation League

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The Anti-Defamation League assists victims of discrimination or bias-motivated violence to achieve redress of justifiable grievances through mediation, administration, or judicial means. It also works with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to provide information and training to deal appropriately and respectfully with victims of bias crimes.

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