ENLACE COMUNITARIO

EC's integrated service model is innovative because client and community input shaped its design as an
intersectional, intergenerational vehicle rooted in culturally and linguistically responsive, respectful
survivor empowerment. Having been shaped with intention, our service model acts as a vital stepping-stone
for survivors to exit their DV context—so as to meet survivors' critical needs at a change-making juncture in
reestablishing their independence and self-sufficiency. Through this service model, EC creatively pairs
intervention and prevention strategies with proactive outreach, self-empowerment, and community
engagement opportunities—to help propel DV survivors, as well as their dependent children, into a new life
chapter predicated upon self-sufficiency and holistic family health.

Enlace's high-level qualitative goals include:

1. Stabilizing families by securing vital resources to support survivors’ health and wellbeing;
2. Shaping a household environment wherein survivors are able to process their DV-related trauma and heal; and 3. Supporting survivors’ vital first acts in overcoming a DV crisis to become autonomous and self-sufficient.

Enlace's high-level FY23 quantitative goals include:
1. Supporting 1,000 DV survivors through our intervention services;
2. Growing our Promotoras and Youth Leaders programs—to enhance professional training opportunities for former DV clients training as community health educators (Promotoras) and former child witnesses to DV training as peer-to-peer educators (Youth Leaders)—as we expand into middle/high schools in the South Valley and Westgate communities;
3. Grow our legal services to reach 250 individuals, including through legal-focused outreach
(e.g., law clinics); and
4. Growing our therapy arm to reach 275 individuals; and (5) raising our public profile
through 55 public presentations, multimedia projects, and community events.

Enlace's high-level strategies for achieving our organizational goals include:

1) Providing culturally and linguistically specific direct intervention services to DV survivors and their children;

2) Building the leadership capacity of former victims and their children (through our outreach- and education-focused prevention programs); and

3) Engaging newly trained leaders in anti-violence and gender equity education.

In line with EC policies, each staff member receives 40 hours of training on domestic violence (DV) and community resources before they even start seeing clients and every year thereafter. EC also provides 20 hours of training to staff and volunteers on a yearly basis that includes: 1) dynamics of DV, including its effects on children; 2) crisis intervention strategies, including safety planning; 3) communication skills (between parents/caregivers and their children; between youth); 4) working with diverse populations; 5) the criminal legal system and legal protections available to victims of DV; 6) child development; 7) confidentiality policies and protections; 8) substance abuse in relation to domestic violence; and 9) immigration issues.

Enlace Comunitario (EC) has 20 years of experiencing providing DV services to thousands of Latino immigrants and has been recognized locally and nationally as a leader. EC’s staff is bilingual, bicultural, and highly trained to combine best practices used by programs who serve native English speakers, with an understanding of the experiences, fears, needs and hopes related to the immigration status and culture of EC clients. As noted, EC’s services include case management; individual, group and family counseling; legal advocacy and representation; life skills classes; transitional housing; prevention and leadership development.

In addition, EC participates in many state and national organizations to remain current on best practices for serving victims. Locally, we are a member of the statewide NMCADV and the Network to End Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence and EC sits on the Mayor's Task Force against DV and Sexual Assault. We are also members of the National Latino Network for Healthy Families. EC's executive director and other staff members also participate in community and professional organizations on a state and national level. Through the executive director's and other staff members' participation on these and other community and professional organizations, EC engages in significant policy change and advocacy for immigrant survivors of domestic violence.