Community-based and specialized programming:vip runs three community-based offices in queens, bronx and manhattan so that survivors have accessible, confidential locations to obtain services within their communities. Culturally relevant counseling services support healing after trauma. Group counseling emphasizes peer support and psychoeducational support to survivors about intersecting needs and resources related to housing, immigration and economic security. Underpinning all services are ongoing in-depth safety plans, developed in partnership with vip staff, a lifesaving practice for people experiencing constant threat of harm by an abusive partner. Vip staff serve as a critical information and referral source for all clients, connecting survivors to legal and housing benefits and additional mental health services, as needed. Nonresidential program staff participate in outreach activities and facilitate presentations and events that promote victims' rights, women's health and available services to the community.Economic justice - vip's economic justice program (ejp) addresses survivors' needs with cultural humility and a strengths-based approach. Ejp develops strategies that recognize the impact of intergenerational poverty, racism, xenophobia, and misogyny and help survivors to build assets and attain financial literacy and increase income/establish new income sources. Ejp assists with credit repair, bankruptcy, banking, small business development, and kicked-off its first ever worker-cooperative initiative in fiscal year 2019. Educational workshops explore survivor's relationships with money, culture, and other systemic structures such as patriarchy and capitalism. SEED money provides survivors with a critical starting point for building small businesses. Artesanando (healing arts) is a small business development initiative designed to enhance the marketing, financial, and business skills of clients who sell homemade food and jewelry, and enables clients to move their business to a level where they can sustain themselves and their families.Sexual violence program - vip's sexual violence program provides a survivor-informed healing modality for latina/o/x immigrant survivors of sexual violence. #Yotambien is a digital storytelling modality that supports survivors to craft, own and, if they choose, share their experiences through a multimedia process. This project expands vip's holistic healing practice to incorporate digital storytelling as a means of connecting to community activism and engaging immigrants in online activism and create a culturally relevant space where immigrant survivors (re)claim their stories for self-determined use and distribution. Cultivating an immigrant-focused healing community addressing sexual violence bridges the gap between this population and the momentum of the #metoo movement.

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