The Engaging Police in Immigrant Communities (EPIC) project works to overcome barriers that exist between law enforcement and the neighborhoods they serve. The project provides law enforcement agencies with useful information—drawn from other jurisdictions—about promising practices for strengthening their relationships with immigrant communities.

The National Immigrant Victims' Access to Justice Partnership works with law enforcement agencies to provide training on the U-visa, which provides legal immigration status for victims of crime who cooperate with law enforcement. With its partner in the project, Legal Momentum, Vera is providing law enforcement agencies nationwide with training and tools for using the U-visa.

Translating Justice works to overcome communication barriers between law enforcement and communities—such as immigrant enclaves—where many people do not speak or understand English well. The project provides police and law enforcement agencies with training, tailored consulting services, and research on promising practices in the field.

The United Communities project builds law enforcement’s capacity to engage Muslim, Arab, and South Asian (MASA) communities in preventing crime. The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services has funded Vera to partner with three law enforcement agencies and explore the challenges and opportunities of working with MASA communities to support homeland security goals. The project will generate information and resources relevant to community-policing activities in other jurisdictions.

Vera and three fellow Altus Global Alliance members formed the Vera-Altus Justice Indicators Project to develop a set of indicators that could be used in diverse international settings to identify problems with adherence to the rule of law and chart progress toward improving access to justice.