Advocates help with safety planning and access to services by providing information and referrals to other community resources. Safety planning is offered to all survivors of domestic and sexual violence through formal and informal conversations with the survivors in which our agency works with survivors to identify and address risks, barriers, or concerns regarding the ability to stay safe. Our agency offers safety planning through crisis lines, at shelters, and/or through other services. Accompaniment to DHS and other services as needed may also be done.

Advocates help survivors navigate the court/legal systems through a variety of mechanisms. Survivors may need support with criminal, civil, or immigration legal remedies. The advocate role is to provide support to survivors through referrals and system navigation. Advocates walk individuals through the restraining/stalking order process and accompany them to court when appropriate. Advocates are not allowed to provide legal advice.

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Advocates may accompany or advocate for survivors who seek medical attention from injuries/trauma/illnesses that have resulted from the domestic and/or sexual violence.

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Our survivor housing programs assist survivors of domestic and sexual violence establish safe and stable housing. Housing Advocates work closely with survivors to help them remain housed or resolve houselessness caused by incidents of interpersonal violence. We offer multiple housing programs to meet the various needs of survivors. Each housing program is unique and has specific eligibility requirements. For additional information regarding requirements, please contact our UNICA Crisis Line.

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Supports survivors by removing barriers to safe housing such as assistance with move in costs, debt collections, poor rental history, lease breaks, and temporary placement with partner shelter agencies as needed.

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Supports qualified survivors with 3 – 12 months of rental assistance while they stabilize their financial health towards independence.

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Supports survivors remain housed by providing advocacy, referral to renters/housing legal support, and/or assistance with rental debt to prevent eviction.

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Our Housing and Economic Empowerment Program provides survivors with educational classes to support long term stable housing success. Classes offered include, but are not limited to, Signs of Financial Abuse, Money and Trauma, Budgeting 101, Credit Scores, Know Your Housing Rights, Understanding Rental History, Assessing Your Current Financial Health, Resume Writing, Job Seeking 101, ITN and Taxes.

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Our PChIP Qualified Mental Health Practitioner (QMHP) offers culturally specific mental health counseling to Latinx families who have been impacted by interpersonal violence through individual family counseling that focuses on improving parent/child interactions with the goal of ending cycles of family violence. Restricted to families living within the City of Portland.

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A 20 week culturally specific Trauma Recovery and Empowerment (TREM) psychoeducation group for survivors of interpersonal violence. Currently restricted to families living within the City of Portland.

Our curriculum-based support groups are designed to empower survivors of domestic and sexual violence by providing education and peer support. Curriculum topics include, but are not limited to, safety planning, establishing healthy boundaries and relationships, coping skills development, positive self-image.

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PAS (Prevencion de Agresion Sexual) is a culturally specific program aimed at preventing gender-based violence through a bilingual & bicultural curriculum that addresses the root causes of sexual violence. Our prevention programming is available to Latinx youth and parents through partnership with SUN programs and are also available as a stand-alone group curriculum through UNICA.

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PChIP provides trauma informed culturally specific supportive and educational home visits to families in the Portland area who have experienced sexual and/or domestic violence. Advocates provide support through community advocacy, referral to therapy services, educational groups, client assistance, and case management to Latinx families who have experienced domestic violence, sexual assault, and/or human trafficking. Restricted to families living within the City of Portland.

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Provides advocacy, crisis intervention, safety planning, and protective orders as well as individual case plans among other services to survivors sexual trafficking. The Sexual Trafficking Survivor Advocate also offers outreach and trainings to the community related to sex trafficking support, intervention, and resources.

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Provides advocacy, crisis intervention, assistance with protective orders, and safety plans as well as individual case plans to assist survivors obtain safety and stability. The Sexual Assault survivor advocate also offers outreach and trainings to the community related to sexual assault support, intervention, and resources.

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