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Description: Report by Esperanza United that provides preliminary research and recommendations to reduce, prevent, and end violence against Latina women and girls, including queer Latines, in Minnesota
Law: 2024 Minn. Laws Chap. 123 Art. 1 Sec. 16
Agency(ies)/Supplier(s): Minn. Dept. of Public Safety
Due Date: 01/01/2025
Frequency: One time
Subjects: Crime & Corrections - Crime Prevention
Gender Issues
Race & Ethnicity
Committee/Agency Jurisdiction: Public Safety
Note: The report may recommend strategies to disrupt pathways to gender-based violence and prevent violence, such as outreach and communication, public engagement, and public campaigns to address and educate local communities about self confidence, leadership skills, family support, and healthy relationships. The report may identify: (1) ways to connect programs and services by state agencies, counties, and nongovernmental organizations to improve services to victims and survivors, and their families and communities; (2) systemic causes behind violence impacting Latina women and girls, including queer Latines, and patterns and underlying factors explaining disproportionality; (3) appropriate methods for tracking and collecting data on violence against Latinas and queer Latines, including data and research on prevention methods; (4) policies and institutional practices in education, labor, child welfare, coroner practices, policing, health care, civil and criminal legal systems; (5) measures to address and reduce violence, including public awareness, research, community awareness campaigns, youth education, and family support practices; and (6) measures to help victims and survivors, and their families and communities, prevent and heal from violence, including recommendations to expand existing programs; identify new strategies that educate young people in effective communication, training in self confidence, leadership skills, and healthy relationships; and general innovative strategies that strengthen relationships with families and networks of support

Item(s) Received

TitlePublisher(s)Publication DateCoverageDate ReceivedReport Link
Gender-based Violence Prevention in Minnesota's Latin@ Community: Preliminary Report to the Minnesota Legislature Esperanza United 2025 03/23/2025 25-0710.pdf