The American Bar Association Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence’s LGBTQI+ Legal Access Project provides individualized support, training, and technical assistance to address domestic and sexual violence in LGBTQI+ communities.
Our project takes a two-pronged approach to strengthen and improve legal services for survivors--by providing attorneys strategies for trauma-informed representation and giving organizations tools to effectively build trauma-informed workplaces.
The Hague Domestic Violence Project was formed to help battered mothers, attorneys, judges, and advocates incorporate child exposure to domestic violence as a defense to prevent the otherwise required return of the child to her or his home country, and to a potentially abusive parent. The project continues its work through the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence, offering national training and technical assistance on Hague Convention cases where domestic violence is an issue.
With the support of the Office for Victims of Crime at the Department of Justice, the ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence has launched the Survivor Reentry Project (SRP). SRP provides national training and technical assistance for attorneys working with survivors of human trafficking who have been convicted of a crime as a result of their victimization.
