FOR IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES

While NIFVI’s website is intended mainly for providers working with immigrants and refugees, if you are an immigrant or refugee experiencing family violence, we suggest the using the websites listed below for more information. If you are in danger, use a computer that is safer, or call 911, your local hotline, or the U.S. National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 and 1-800-787-3234 (TTY).


Futures Without Violence
Futures Without Violence works to prevent violence within the home, and in the community, to help those whose lives are devastated by violence because everyone has the right to live free of violence. To read Questions and Answers for Immigrant and Refugee Women, available in English and a number of other languages, Click here.


The National Domestic Violence Hotline
A non-profit organization that provides crisis intervention, information and referral to victims of domestic violence, perpetrators, friends and families. Click Here


Power and Control Wheels
Tools that define the cycle of power and control in abusive relationships.
Culture Connect - "I Speak" Cards
Two-sided bilingual cards with printed information about Language Access Rights, as well as a statement that requests an interpreter. Translated into more than 30 languages.Click Here