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Our Approach to Ending Family Violence

We Create New Journeys

Caminar Latino, or “Latino Journey,” began as Georgia’s first and only comprehensive domestic violence intervention program for Latino families. Today, this community-centered approach also informs our national training and field-building work.

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Guided by Concientización

At Caminar Latino, our work is guided by concientización — the process of becoming aware of the social, cultural, and systemic forces that shape our lives, while also recognizing our power to change them. We create spaces where families can reflect, heal, build accountability, and strengthen their ability to make choices rooted in safety, dignity, and connection. Our approach honors the wisdom already present within our communities and supports people as they move from surviving harm toward creating lasting change for themselves, their families, and future generations.

We Walk Alongside Families

We work to interrupt cycles of violence and achieve a vision of thriving Latine families. Through a culturally specific, healing-centered approach, we support Latino families with services that are responsive to their lived experiences, values, and strengths.

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We follow your lead

You know your situation better than anyone. Our role is to hold space for you to make the changes necessary to heal.

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We Stay Rooted

Our culturally rooted approach is more than just bilingual services; we honor the values, lived experiences, and community strengths that shape each family’s path toward healing and change.

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We Journey Together

Healing is not linear and it does not happen overnight. We are committed to accompanying you through every step, the difficult ones, the slow ones, and the ones worth celebrating.

Survivors lead the way here.

Everything at Caminar Latino – our programs, our language, and our advocacy – is shaped by the voices of survivors. Their lived experience is one of our greatest sources of knowledge and their leadership is what makes this work effective and real.

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The community is not separate from our work - it is who we are.

From participants to board members, the people who make up Caminar Latino reflect the communities we walk alongside. This ensures that the people closest to the problem are helping lead the solutions.

Our Values in Practice

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We believe safety goes beyond physical safety. It includes being free from physical, sexual, and emotional fear and harm in one’s home, workplace, and environments. Our culture, experiences, and histories influence how safety is perceived and understood. What is safe for one person or family may not be feasible or useful for another person or family. We believe safety is not a temporary respite, but involves a wide range of concrete, trauma-informed, culturally responsive approaches and relationships.
We believe people are experts in their own lives and should define their experience and that communities should champion progress in their own way. We embrace the philosophy of “nothing about us, without us” by centering the lived expertise of those most impacted to effect change in our homes, workplace, and institutions.
We believe to be transformational we must identify and resist structural racism, engage in collective problem-solving and decision-making, and intentionally facilitate a more deliberate sharing of power as an explicit part of our work.
We believe integrity is the foundation for honesty, transparency, respect, and trust. Integrity literally means having “wholeness” of character and as such aspire to operate in this wholeness of character in all our actions and relationships.
We believe we are part of a network of mutuality where what impacts one of us, impacts us all. We engage in reciprocal relationships between program participants, community members, colleagues, and society at large that are interdependent, resist superior and subordinate relationships, and recognize the positive, interactive ways we can each learn from each other.

Ready to experience this firsthand?

Our advocates are ready to listen, support, and walk alongside you - in your language, at your pace, for as long as you need.

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