Our Body Matters: How Language Access Enables Victims of Sexual Abuse to Seek Multilingual Resources

Join Carol Velandia and Marissa Jachman from the Erin Levitas Foundation as they discuss the vital role of language accessibility in the prevention of sexual violence. Learn about innovative strategies that empower communities and ensure safety through education and multilingual outreach.

In This Episode: Marissa’s Advocacy: How personal experiences fuel her commitment to teaching consent and respect.

Impact of Multilingual Accessibility: Efforts to make sexual violence prevention education accessible to everyone.

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Email us to partner: info@erinlevitas.org

Immediate support links: https://erinlevitas.org/immediate-support/ Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault https://mcasa.org/

Some links around articles relevant to Language access and sexual violence Connection between Language Access and Sexual Violence and Racism: https://www.nsvrc.org/blogs/saam/what-connection-between-language-access-sexual-violence-and-racism

Importance of Language Access https://www.nsvrc.org/resource/importance-language-access

Cultivating Fear: The Vulnerability of Immigrant Farmworks in the US to Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment: https://vawnet.org/material/cultivating-fear-vulnerability-immigrant-farmworkers-us-sexual-violence-and-sexual

Intimate Partner VIolence-Undocumented & Immigrant Woman(underreported): https://now.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Learn-More-IPV-and-Immigrant-Womenpdf.pdf

Meeting communities where they are: https://languagescience.umd.edu/beyond-umd/language-science-everyone/meet-them-where-they-are#:~:text=That's%20why%20it's%20so%20important,aided%20by%20actually%20going%20out.

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