ASISTA, The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), Legal Momentum, The National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NLGNIP), and the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) are sponsoring a one day training on U Visas in Washington, D.C. on June 30, 2010.

Trainers will include:
Sally Kinoshita, Deputy Director, Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)

Sonia Parras-Konrad, Co-Director, ASISTA

Kavitha Sreeharsha, Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Momentum

Julia Alanen, Violence Against Women Project Coordinator, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)

Catherine Ward Seitz, Regional Immigration Coordinator, Bay Area Legal Aid

Nirupa L. Narayan, Managing Immigration Attorney, Tahirih Justice Center

Elizabeth Keyes, Practitioner-in-Residence, Immigrant Justice Clinic, American University's Washington College of Law

Nora Phillips, Staff Attorney at Central American Resource Center (LA)

Registration Fees:

$125 per person for Non-profit organization staff

$150 per person for private attorneys and staff

OVW grantees: A limited number of OVW grantees will be able to register for this training for only the materials fee of $75. The first 20 OVW grantees that register through ASISTA at questions@asistahelp.org or by phone at 515.244.2469 will be eligible for this special rate.

Fees will cover the training, materials, and beverages. Lunch will be on your own.

REGISTRATION: Please register by going to http://cliniclegal.kintera.org/Utraining2010