Violence Against Immigrant Women Internship, National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project, Washington, DC

Violence Against Women Internship

Posted on: May 15, 2013
Posted by: National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project

DESCRIPTION

Are you passionate about immigration and women's rights? NIWAP is seeking undergraduate and graduate students this summer to work on projects that improve services nationwide for immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, and other crimes. The 15-40 hour per week internship will include an opportunity to work on the following types of projects:

• Coordinate trainings for police and judges on immigrant victim certification in cases of immigrant crime victims and national training on immigrant victims legal rights;
• Reaching out to Adult and Child Protective Services agencies and collecting comments on tool kits for adult protective services and child protective services staff on U-visa certification;
• Collection of stories from the field documenting best practices and gaps in services and protections for immigrant victims of crime;
• Distribute materials and information developed by NIWAP staff in response to assistance requests from state, local and federal government agencies and from advocates and attorneys across the country;
• Update NIWAP's national state by state directory of programs serving immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking;
• Update NIWAP's national resource library, available at niwaplibrary.wcl.american.edu, track copyright permissions and find new public documents to upload.

The National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project Law (NIWAP, pronounced new-app) is an experiential learning opportunity at American University Washington College of Law. NIWAP's work benefits immigrant women, children, and immigrant survivors of domestic abuse, sexual assault, human trafficking, and other crimes. We are a national provider of training, legal and social science research, policy development, and technical assistance to advocates, attorneys, pro bono law firms, law schools, universities, law enforcement, prosecutors, social service and health care providers, justice system personnel, and other professionals who work with immigrant women, children and crime victims.

HOW TO APPLY

To apply, please send your resume and a cover letter describing your interest in this summer position to Levi Wolberg (wolberg@wcl.american.edu). Applications will remain open until positions are filled.