Multilingual Access Project (MAP)
In 2005, the St. Louis region agencies of Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (MCADSV) organized a task force, WomenSOLE (Women Speaking Other Languages than English), to begin addressing the needs of survivors who do not speak English or who are hard of hearing.
From WomenSOLE, ROW established the Multilingual Access Project (MAP). MAP has been developed to respond to the needs of non-English speaking survivors and their children, regardless of documentation status. MAP’s mission arose from the belief that basic needs are not special needs, as all survivors of intimate partner violence deserve advocacy and support that is language accessible and validates their cultural worldview.
Language Advocacy: Trained in domestic violence issues, MAP’s Language Advocates provide bilingual and bicultural interpretation in Spanish, Bosnian, Vietnamese as well as French, German, and Turkish.
Trainings: MAP aims to strengthen agency capacity in providing culturally competent, language accessible domestic violence services through cultural competency trainings. In doing so, MAP strives to increase domestic violence awareness and community response in immigrant and refugee groups.
- MAP ofrece servicios de interpretación en Español, sin importa tu situacion legal.
- MAP omogucava dvojezicne i dvokulturalne servise prevoda na Bosanskom jeziku bez obzira na zakoniti status.
- MAP cung cấp văn hóa song ngữ của hai dân tôc,thông dịch bằng tiếng việt không kể dến tình trạng pháp lý.
To access services or for more information, please contact Joan Moorhem at jmoorhem@row-stl.org.