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Latina Resource Center

The UMOS Latina Resource Center is the only center in Wisconsin that provides domestic violence supportive services specifically targeted to Hispanic women.

Services

  • Crisis Intervention
  • Domestic Violence Education
  • Women's Support Groups
  • Community Education/Outreach
  • Bilingual Victims Services
  • Legal Advocacy Support
  • Children's Services

Families Served in 2007

  • 319 women were provide with comprehensive case management services
  • 319 women were provided with domestic violence information, safety planning, and prevention information
  • 250 women were assisted in legal advocacy support services
  • 82 crisis counseling services were provided
  • 338 women were provided with resource and referral services
  • 112 W2 participants impacted by domestic violence were provided with comprehensive domestic violence services

Brides Walk against Domestic Violence Annual Community Organizing Program

The Brides Walk calls attention to domestic violence in the Latino community. It engages victims of violence proactively and promotes action against domestic violence, and broadens support and visibility of the work of the UMOS Latina Resource Center.

The Planning Committee consists of members of the Latino community, domestic violence organizations, congressional staff members, local elected officials, victims of domestic violence and members of the Center's Advisory Committee.

The Brides Walk is a dynamic event, boldly sending a message that the violence must stop and provides women victims a chance to participate in a way that, for the first time ever, they can publicly express their feelings, become actively engaged and share in a powerful experience. Their participation initially may come in the form of helping to make "wedding favors" that contain safety plans that are distributed along the walk route, making veils that the "brides" will wear on the day of the walk, as well as collecting pledges.

Brides Walk 2007 Major Sponsors include:

  • Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton
  • Apollo's Bridal
  • Spanglish Diseno
  • Congresswoman Gwen Moore
  • Northwestern Mutual Foundation
  • Aurora Healthcare
  • Managed Health Services
  • JP Morgan Chase
  • LULAC National Women's Commission

UMOS Latina Resource Center funding sources include:

  • . Office of Justice Assistance
  • . Office of Justice Department-Victims of Crime
  • . Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation
  • . Center for Self Sufficiency-Healthy Marriage Initiative