Woman's Fund, Inc. provides safety and support to survivors of violence. Services include emergency and transitional housing for up to 35 women and children, counseling, advocacy, outreach, and training. They provide 24-hour crisis services for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services
Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services offer direct services, advocacy and outreach education programs.
AWAIC offers safe Shelter, information and referral, support, and advocacy.
Information on how to stop domestic abuse and how to decide if you are abused. Offers the following services: 24-Hour phone service; information and referral; advocacy for domestic abuse victims; advocacy for abused youth; public education; emergency and transitional housing; legal advocacy; and more.
Service Region: Itasca county
Contact Info: tel: 218-326-0388
1-800-909-8336
advocate@uslink.net
African American Planning Commission Inc.
New York City based organization committed to ending homelessness and developing innovative solutions to joblessness. Website includes information about domestic violence and the organization's transitional housing for survivors of domestic violence and their minor children.
Domestic violence perpetrator programme based in Plymouth, England. Also offers support & counselling service for women survivors, risk assessment service for family law/child protection practitioners, training and consultancy in the field of domestic violence (International).
Service Region: Devon, England
Provides free 24 hour temporary emergency shelter, support services and community advocacy to battered women and families.
Alternatives to Domestic Aggression (ADA)
This is a program from the Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County. ADA provides batterer intervention services in Michigan and posts programmic materials on their webpage.
The Ananda Institute provides a full range of community social services and counseling services to underserved and/or at risk children, families, couples and individuals. The Institute is dedicated to creating positive differences in the lives of children and families affected by domestic violence/familial trauma, child abuse and alcohol/substance abuse.
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender National Hate Crimes Report in 2005 (pdf)
Discusses hate crimes of violence towards the lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual communities.
Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia
Addresses the cycle of violence providing intervention, prevention and support services. AVP is committed to advocacy and support for individual homicide co-victims, violence prevention training for children and adults, and effecting change in public and private institutions and society at large. Website includes links to resources on violence prevention, family violence, gun control, government resources, trauma, victim resources, conflict resolution and mediation and other sites of interest.
Apna Ghar is a domestic violence shelter serving primarily Asian women and children.
Asian Pacific Women's Center is one of the first transitional housing facilities in the United States to focus on the needs of Asian and Pacific Islander domestic violence survivors by providing culturally sensitive and language appropriate services. Asian Pacific Women's Center welcomed its first residents in May 2000.
Asian Taskforce Against Domestic Violence
Offers several programs including The Lowell Asian Outreach and Advocacy Project, Project Safe, and The Asian Shelter and Advocacy Program. Services include a multilingual hotline and emergency shelter; advocacy; tutoring; parenting skills training; counseling and support groups; and job and educational opportunities.
The Asian Women's Shelter (AWS) is a comprehensive shelter program in San Francisco that provides safety, food, shelter, advocacy, and other resources to assist women in rebuilding violence-free lives for themselves and their children. Their services are culturally appropriate and language accessible. They have an on-call pool of multilingual advocates to respond to the wide range of Asian languages spoken in the Bay area, and they work closely with other agencies in the community to provide a comprehensive network of resources for Asian battered women and their children. The Asian Women's Shelter mission is to eliminate domestic violence by promoting the social, economic, and political self-determination of women.
Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education
Provides crisis intervention, advocacy, information and referral services in Minnesota. Peer education and outreach in available to members of the University community: students, staff, and faculty. Services are free and confidential. A crisis line operates 24 hours per day. Website lists resources for male and female survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence, for prostituted women, and for male perpetrators in the Twin Cities Metro area.
Battered Women's Support Services
Battered Women's Support Services of Vancouver, British Columbia, offers information about counseling and advocacy, support groups, legal advocacy, their dating violence training program, and other services.
British Columbia Human Rights Coalition
Website gives information about the organization and posts publications. The coalition gives information, advice and advocacy for individual complainants; consultation and workshop organization for unions, employers, and other groups; and papers and presentations on human rights issues for meetings, conferences and media.
Calcasieu Women's Shelter provides 24-hour crisis counseling and shelter for victim’s, as well as their family and friends.
California Courts Self-Help Center
This website provides information about Getting Help Right Now (Emergency Protective Orders); Applying for a Restraining Order; and Responding to a Request for a Restraining Order. Discusses domestic violence and if you qualify for a restraining order in California.
Canadian Lawyers Association for International Human Rights (CLAIHR)
Established to promote and protect human rights internationally through the use of law and legal institutions. Website includes publications, contacts, links, and information on volunteering, projects, and CLAIHR chapters.
Shelter and education agency. Website shares information regarding community outreach, advocay, survivor resources, and access to publications, press releases, and weblinks.
Community based, multicultural organization dedicated to the eradication of violence against women and children. Includes information about local organizations (a network of emergency and transitional living programs, an array of clinical and community services and education projects) and a Massachusetts state crisis hotline service, 1-877-785-2020.
CedarBrook Family Centers is a Minnesota based nonprofit organization providing direct service, consultation, and continuing education in the intervention and prevention of domestic violence and child abuse. CedarBrook works with teachers, child care providers, and others to improve the learning and development of children exposed to domestic violence and maltreatment in their homes. They also provide continuing education to schools and systems that want to end violence.
Chance Crisis Centre
apt.503, 27 Kiyevskaya St.,
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 720000
Tel.: +312 28-07-62, 29-86-58
Provides free, confidential psychological,
judicial and medical help to women and girls, violence victims, including to those of raping,
via the «trust» telephone and consultations. Conducts training workshops and seminars for youth students and
law-enforcement.
Child Advocates is an organization in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties (Bay Area, California) with over 500 volunteers working with abused and neglected children.
Child Witness to Violence Project
A counseling, advocacy, and outreach project that focuses on the growing number of young children who are hidden victims of violence: children who are bystanders to community and domestic violence. Website includes information on the program's mission, services, related projects, CWTV staff, children & violence, how to find help, tips for caregivers, a calendar, and program resources.
Service region: Boston, MA
Children's Institute International (CTI)
Specializes in the prevention, intervention, and treatment of child abuse and neglect. Services include medical care, counseling, drug treatment, developmental assessments and treatment for children, and parent education.
Service region: Los Angeles, California.
Children's Safety Centers Network, Inc.
Organization provides a safe haven for children during parent visitation when there is threat of abuse or witnessing abuse during parent visitation or visitation exchanges. Website explains services.
Service Region: Various locations in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Community Survey Project: Factors That Influence Disclosure of Domestic Abuse to Providers
The Whatcom County Domestic Violence Comprehensive Plan, completed by the Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence in June 2000, identified the need for increased knowledge about experiences of victims and survivors of domestic violence, as they interface with Whatcom County community and health care providers. To find out more about how victims experience the prospect of disclosing domestic violence to providers, the commission surveyed 1081 women in the county.
Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services
Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services, Inc. (CONNSACS) is a statewide coalition of individual sexual assault crisis programs, which work to end sexual violence through victim assistance, community education, and public policy advocacy.
A community-based non-profit organization whose purpose is to prevent violence and provide comprehensive services to victims of domestic abuse and their children. Services include support and legal services, services for youth, school-based programming, volunteer opportunties, community education, emergency services, and transitional housing. Clients can access the agency through a 24-hour crisis line, 952-884-0330. All services are confidential and without cost to the client.
Service region:
Bloomington, Eden Prairie, Edina, and Richfield, Minnesota.
Creating a Partner Violence Workplace Policy
This web page, developed by the Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence, describes points to consider when creating a workplace policy about partner violence. The site also offers facts, figures, articles and advice for corporations. Information covers dating violence, domestic violence, employee education, safety, support, security and more.
Crisis Center for South Suburbia
Crisis Center for South Suburbia is a domestic violence agency in the south suburbs of Illinois.
Crisis Support Network Domestic Violence Hotline
This website from Washington state contains articles, information about safety planning, and check-lists regarding abuse, as well as a toll-free number to call for help.
Crossroads Safehouse of Larimer County, Colorado, is a domestic violence program that provides an excellent example of a website devoted to aiding local battered women.
Day One is the sole agency in the state of RI organized specifically to deal with issues of sexual assault as a community concern. Its mission is to reduce the prevalence of sexual violence and to support and advocate for those affected by it. We will support and stand by women, men, children and families from day one.
Deaf/Hard of Hearing Domestic Violence Program
This organizations has formed to meet the special language and cultural needs of deaf and hard of hearing individuals in the Twin Cities metropoliatan area.
Contact Info: Deaf/Hard of Hearing Domestic Violence Program
CSD of Minnesota
2055 Rice Street
St. Paul, MN 55113
651-297-6700 V, 651-487-8867 TTY
24-Hours Crisis Hotline: 612-619-2323 TTY
Domestic Abuse Counseling Center
A non-profit organization whose mission is to end partner violence in western Pennsylvania through counseling abusers; collaborating with social service agencies, criminal justice systems, victim-advocate agencies, and health organizations; and promoting public awareness and education.
Domestic Abuse Project is a multi-service agency for battered women, men who batter and their children serving the Minneapolis area. Dynamics of Domestic Violence Presentation is one of many training resources available from DAP. Other resources include manuals on groupwork with various populations and a manual on program evaluation.
Domestic Violence and Incest Resource Centre
Provides information and library services, counselling and support sesrvices, community and education training, a journal, and links to other sites.
Provides shelter, education, and other services that foster peaceful relationships. Services include
24 Hour HELPline 216-391-HELP (4357); shelter for women and their children; suppotive services after shelter for women, children and adolescents; advocacy with the justice system; advocacy for victims who require hospital care; visitation center for on-site visitation or safe exchange of children; counseling for adults and children; support groups for domestic violence and stalking victims; intervention services; AIP-Adolescent Intervention Program for youth 12-17; ADAPT - Adult Domestic Abuse Prevention and Treatment
Service Region: Cleveland, OH metropolitan area including Cuyahoga and adjacent counties
Contact Info: Telephone: 24 Hour HELPline 216-391-HELP (4357)
Office: 216-651-8484
Fax: 216-651-8575
Domestic Violence Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
The Domestic Violence Centre provides 24-hour crisis intervention, education, advocacy, liaison and inter-agency networking regarding violence against women.
Domestic Violence Intervention Program
DVIP provides 24 hour crisis intervention services and shelter for victims of domestic violence and their family.
Domestic Violence Programme - Vancouver General Hospital's Emergency Room
This is the website of a hospital-based intervention program.
Domestic Violence Protection Project for the State of Georgia
Website helps a user and gives information on the following topics: Have a court order an abuser to stop; Safety Plan; Locate an attorney and/or emergency shelter; and Georgia's Crime Victim's Compensation Program, and about filing criminal charges against your abuser.
Domestic Violence Protection Project for the State of New York
Website helps the user Seek a Family Court Order of Protection against an abuser; Plan for your safety; Learn more about shelters and other domestic violence services; and Find out how to get a lawyer.
Domestic Violence Resource Center
Provides information on domestic violence and stalking, including information on the law and community resources in Ohio available to help you stay safe and complete the court papers necessary to get legal protection. Also includes information for attorneys and domestic violence advocates.
DOVE, Inc - Domestic Violence Ended
DOVE, Inc. is an organization committed to serving communities, families, and individuals impacted by domestic violence.
DOVES is a non-profit organization serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in the five counties of the southern Nebraska Panhandle.
Emerge: Counseling and Education to End Domestic Violence
Organization offers group counseling for men who have verbally, mentally or physically abused a woman in a relationship. Includes discussion of the connection between domestic violence and child abuse. Website includes information on domestic violence, information for partners, battered women programs, training for counselors, resource links and more.
Service region: Cambridge, Quincy, Lowell, and Roxbury, Massachusetts
Information about stalking, traits of stalkers, how stalking affects the workplace, safety tips, building your case, court orders, victims' rights, and how you can help stop stalking.
Features information on maternal health, sexual and reproductive health, adolescent health, family planning, unsafe abortion, and violence against women. Services are available in parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Family Refuge Center provides 24 hour crisis hotline, emergency shelter for battered women and their children, legal information, counseling and advocacy.
A full-service domestic abuse agency serving the East Metro Region of the Twin Cities, Minnesota. They offer immediate safety and resources for families in crisis. Their 24-hour crisis line is : 651-770-0777. Services include advocacy and legal services, community education including support groups, emergency shelter programs, and transitional support services.
Federal Housing and Domestic Violence: Introduction to Programs, Policy, and Advocacy Opportunities
This paper provides a basic overview of the laws and policies governing the principal federal housing programs and discusses key policy issues these programs raise for battered women.
Federal Interstate Stalking Law
Provides definitions and interpretations of the Federal Interstate Stalking Law.
Friendship Home exists to support, shelter and advocate for women and their children who are victims of domestic violence.
Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project
Organization provides community education and direct services for clients. Offers a crisis line (1.800.832.1901), shelter, guidance, and resources to allow gay, bisexual, and transgender men in crisis to remove themselves from violent situations and relationships. Website includes information about domestic violence, survivor stories, information on getting involved, and more.
Service region: Massachusetts
Organization provides free cosmetic dental work for domestic violence survivors.
Website includes information on how to stop a crisis (info available for women, men, teens, and children in Minnesota), how to get involved, other resources, and about the center.
Heartland Alliance’s mission is to advance the human rights and to respond to the human needs of endangered populations – particularly the poor, the isolated, and the displaced – through the provision of comprehensive and respectful services and the promotion of permanent solutions leading to a more just global society.
House of ruth offer victim/survivors of domestic violence 24-hour crisis intervention, shelter, transitional housing and other programs.
Housing and Battered Women: Increasing Battered Women's Access to Federal Housing Programs
This paper encourages advocates to collaborate in an effort to support proposed federal housing regulations that begin to address some of the housing needs of battered women and to submit comments to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to support those sections of the proposed regulations that could give battered women faster access to housing.
Immigrant and Refugee Power and Control Wheel
Throughout the world, women are victims of domestic violence just as there are battered women in the United States. Immigrant and refugee women know that in their countries of origin, women have been tortured with sexual abuse by the army/rebels, kidnapped into prostitution, forced into marriages, killed in honor killings, used for sexual slavery, stoned to death and often experience other gender related abuses. This Immigrant and Refugee Power and Control Wheel is an adaptation of the Duluth Power and Conrol wheel created by attendees Immigrant & Refugee Women Support Group in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Information on Domestic Violence
A great resource that provides information and facts about child exposure to domestic violence, all of which is documented by the Clackamas Women's Services in OR. Click on the links to review the services provided and the upcoming events.
Innocent Spouse Tax Relief Publication
Information from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about procedures allowing a victim of domestic violence to apply for protection from the tax liabilities of her spouse or former spouse without revealing her identity or location.
Interfaith Sexual Trauma Institute
Provides support to survivors of sexual trauma as well as reaching out to communities affected by sexual violence.
International Child Resource Institute
ICRI has been providing services for families and children locally and around the world. ICRI makes a difference by providing technical assistance and consultation to a wide variety of national and international organizations interested in such children's issues as child care, child abuse prevention, child survival, maternal and child health, placement alternatives for abandoned and traumatized children and the promotion of children's rights. ICRI has offices or collaborates with organizations around the world to provide services to children and families.
Intersecting Inequalities: Immigrant Women of Colour, Violence and Health Care
This report focuses on racialized immigrant women who have experienced intimate violence and their access to the health care system. The paper reviews current literature and identifies key variables that contribute to immigrant women's vulnerability to violence and lack of access to health care. The response of health care service providers is also examined.
Iowa Sexual Abuse Hotline (pdf)
The Iowa Sexual Abuse Hotline is a 24-hour line providing support, information and referral services to survivors of sexual abuse, signifcant others, people concerned about sexual abuse and people seeking information and referral. All services are free of charge, confidential and available to women, men and children.
Koster Consulting & Associates
Provides education, training and investigations in the area of elder abuse as well as case consultation for service providers, abuse support group development and facilitation; and more. Website includes service and resource information, company and founder profile and contact info.
Service Region: general
Contact Info:
116 Browning Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M4K 1W3
phone (416) 778-7200
e-mail koster@istar.ca
L. A. Gay & Lesbian Center's STOP Partner Abuse Program
Domestic violence in the LGBT community. Safety plan, services offered, where to find appropriate help, etc.
Service Region: Los Angeles, California
L. O. Combat Violence Against Women: Women's Aid Centers
Services include: shelters for abused women and their children; day seminars/lectures; 2nd stage housing; and telephone hotlines for assistance (general number: 1-800-353-300, hotline for women in distress: 09-9505720, hotline for children and youth in distress: 09-9518927.) Website includes statistics, newsletters, success stories, and more.
Service region: Israel
Agency provides comprehensive services to victims of domestic violence and their children. Services include domestic violence counseling, legal representation, criminal court advocacy, immigration services, hospital advocacy, public education, and systemic policy work.
Service region: Chicago and Des Plaines, IL
Love Is Respect - National Teen Dating Abuse Hotline
Loveisrespect.org is the online home of the National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline. A community where one can find support and information to understand dating abuse.
A non-profit organization dedicated to securing transitional housing for women and children in domestic violence situations in the St. Louis area.
Working to protect Nepali girls and women from crimes like domestic violence, trafficking for flesh trade, child prostitution, child labor and various forms of exploitation and torture. Website includes updates, newsletters, program information, reports and more. Services include rehab, transit, and prevention homes; awareness education; rehab and repat services; and more.
Service region: Nepal
Manavi is an organization in New Jersey providing advocacy, translator services, legal and therapeutic referral, loans, job and housing advice for South Asian who have been battered, abandoned, racially or sexually harassed, impoverished or victimized in any way.
The Marie Stopes International provides sexual and reproductive health information. The organization also provides direct services to 3.3 million people worldwide in 38 countries.
MAWS's webiste provides information about the organization's intervention and prevention programs. Services include 24-hour crisis hotlines (Women's English Hotline 415-924-6616; Women's Spanish Hotline 415-924-3456; Men's Hotline 415-924-1070), a shelter and transitional housing, community education and organizing, a community policing project, a resource library, technical assistance and training, support groups, and a men's program. Marin County, California.
Men Stopping Violence is a group of men in Atlanta, GA, working to end male violence against women. Services include training and consultation and a batterers intervention program.
Men's Resource Center of Western Massachusetts
The mission of the Men's Resource Center is to support men, challenge men's violence, and develop men's leadership in ending oppression. Services include support groups, a youth education program, men overcoming violence programs, fathering services, Voice Male magazine, and public education trainings.
Metro Nashville Police Department - Domestic Abuse
The Domestic Abuse Page of the Nashville Police Department contains a tremendous amount of information on domestic violence, including symptoms of abuse, response and follow-up of police officers and investigators, services and telephone numbers to shelters, and a sample separation safety plan.
Mid-Florida Area Agency on Aging, Inc.
The Mid-Florida Area Agency on Aging offers various resources on elder abuse and neglect.
Mid-Valley Women's Crisis Services
Mid-Valley Women's Crisis Services provides services to women in Oregon. Their web site offers information for survivors of domestic violence, including some resources in Spanish.
Middle Way House is a domestic violence/rape crisis center. They provide direct services to battered women, their children, and sexual assault survivors in Bloomington, Indiana.
The Miles Foundation is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting awareness of interpersonal violence, especially as it pertains to the military. The Foundation provides services to victims of violence perpetrated by or upon military personnel. Services, include development of safety plans; financial support; advocacy; attorney and therapist referrals; support group referrals; protective order documentation and service; development of victim impact statements; and engagement of witness protection programs. The Foundation also has an electronic newsletter, Across the Miles and a Listserv. To subscribe to the newsletter, please forward a subscription request to MilesfdnMCD@aol.com or milesfd@yahoo.com. To subscribe to the Listserv, send a request to acrossthemiles-subscribe@onelist.com.
Milwaukee Women's Center, Inc.
Milwaukee Women's Center, Inc., located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provides services in the areas of domestic and family violence, alcohol and drug abuse, mental health, maternal and child health, and community education and prevention.
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide. Special projects include a death penalty defense project and a women's project focusing on domestic violence.
Organization provides advocacy, community education, and
services to those harmed by domestic violence. Website includes information about domestic and dating violence, encourages community activism, and provides tips for parents.
Service region: Westchester County, New York.
National Center for Victims of Crime
The National Center for Victims of Crime believes in forging a national commitment to help victims of crime rebuild their lives. We are dedicated to serving individuals, families, and communities harmed by crimes. Through collaboration with local, state, and federal partners they provide direct services and resources; advocate for laws and public policies that create resources and secure rights and protections for victims; and deliver training and technical assistance to victim services providers and allied professionals.
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Contains information on the services the Hotline provides to battered women, including crisis intervention, information on domestic violence resources and referrals. The site also includes a national domestic violence fact sheet with up-to-date statistics with citations, and a listing of domestic violence online resources. One section of the web site has a relationship quiz, available in both English and Spanish, for visitors to assess whether they may be in an abusive relationship.
Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center
This Center is located near the Yankton Sioux Reservation, South Dakota and provides programs and services to address pertinent issues of health, education, land and water rights, and economic development of Native American people. Among the issues and programs addressed are those that deal with domestic violence. To support their efforts, the Resource Center also sells a variety of products, some of which are related to violence issues, through their Native Shop.
New Beginnings offers victim/survivors of sexual assault 24-hour crisis intervention, advocacy and shelter.
New Hope for Women: Working to End Domestic Violence
The site has information on teen dating violence and the New Hope for Women's School Outreach Program, which provides training and information on dating violence to students and teachers.
Organization works to create supportive school environments for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, staff and families. Under their "Resources" section, the article "What is Homophobic Harassment" discusses the fact that homophobic harassment is a form of sexual harassment/discrimination. Organization provides classroom discussions for schools in the St. Paul Public School District, MN.
Outfront Minnesota's Anti-Violence Program
Organization working to prevent harassment from occurring through education and visibility. Includes training programs, crime victim advocacy, reporting resources, and domestic violence services [Same-Sex
Domestic Abuse Hotline at (612) 824-8434].
Service region: Direct services in Minneapolis, MN
Pace Women's Justice Center, housed in the Pace University School of Law, is comprised of Pace law students and faculty, attorneys, and advocates dedicated to eradicating domestic violence and furthering the legal rights of women. The Pace Women's Justice Center is a training, resource and direct legal services center for New York metropolitan citizens.
A long-term, community-based, violence reduction/crime prevention program. It is a program designed to help create an environment that reduces violence and establishes more peaceful ways of behaving, living and working in families, schools, organizations and communities. They do trainings on the PeaceBuilders process.
Post Trauma Resources is a South Carolina Center providing consultation and training in the areas of violence prevention, humanitarian assistance, and trauma response programs.
Project Safe provides 24 hour crisis hotline, counseling, emergency shelter and legal advocacy.
Prostitution Research and Education
Organization helps those who have been used in prostitution recover from that experience and educates health professionals and the general public about prostitution as a human rights violation.
This organization from the Fargo-Moorhead area (North Dakota, Minnesota) publishes prevention and treatment materials on the topics of sexual abuse, child abuse, and domestic violence in their publications division. Services include Crisis Intervention, Advocacy, Counseling, Legal Advocacy, Emergency Housing, Outreach Activities, Community Education and Professional Training, Support Groups, and Criminal Justice Systems Monitoring.
Organization provides affordable, accessible, and qualified assistance to victims of sexual violence and their families. Website includes information about date/acquaintance rape, date rape drugs, male sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, self-care, and more. 24 Hour
Help Line: 612-825-4357
Service region: Minneapolis, MN
Rape Treatment Center at Santa Monica - UCLA Medical Center
Provides comprehensive, free treatment for sexual assault victims, including emergency medical care and forensic exams, counseling and psychotherapy, advocacy, and accompaniment services; training for police, prosecutors, judges, medical and mental health personnel, and other providers of rape victim services; prevention/education programs for children, adolescents, and college students; community education; consultation for schools, the media, government agencies, and other organizations; and educational films and publications that are distributed nationwide. Website includes information about the organization, what to do if you are raped, impact of rape, campus rape, acquaintance rape, rape drugs, survivor stories, links, rape facts, and more.
Service region: Direct survivor services in Santa Monica, California.
Rape Victims Assistance Program
Provides information about what to do if you are raped.
Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN)
RAINN is a Washington, D.C based non-profit organization founded by singer/songwriter Tori Amos (who is herself a rape survivor). RAINN operates a national toll-free hotline for victims of sexual assault - 1-800- 656-HOPE (4673).
The Raphael House of Portland, Oregon provides shelter and services to families wishing to break the cycle of domestic violence.
Regaining One's Self Esteem (ROSE) Fund is committed to ending violence against women and assisting women survivors of violence to regain their self-esteem and rebuild their lives. Website includes information about rape, domestic violence and how to help; scholarships for survivors; an online auction; a calendar of events; and information on the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary R.O.S.E. Patrnership: For the Reconstruction of Faces and Self-Esteem.
Providing a variety of shelter and advocacy services for individuals and families dealing with the issues of domestic violence, sexual assault, and/or homelessness. The Center's website includes information about the Center, its services, safety planning, resources in the Aberdeen area, an online newsletter and contact information. 24-hour crisis line is (605) 226-1212 or toll-free at (888) 290-2935.
A direct service, research, and advocacy organization serving the five boroughs of New York City. They operate extensive community and court based services for domestic violence, sexual assault, rape, child abuse, and assault victims as well as survivors of homicide. They operate hotlines for domestic violence victims, crime victims, and immigrants and offer mediation services. Website includes faq sheets to help someone during or after specific experiences and an extensive list of links.
Safe Space provides victims of domestic violence, rape, and sexual assualt with 24-hour emergency hotline, 24-hour advocacy and support, emergency shelter, transportation, food, and clothing, weekly support groups and community education.
Sanctuary, Inc. offers rape, sexual assault and domestic violence victims/survivors and their family members a wide range of services including safe, temporary shelter, individual and group counseling and legal advocacy.
Working with other social service and government agencies, the Center's team of specially trained physicians, psychologist, social workers, crisis workers and community educators provides the services necessary to assist women with recovery.
The Sexual Violence Center is an independent non-profit organization that services victims of sexual violence in the Twin Cities metro area. Each year, SVC provides more than 2000 youth and adults with 24-hour crisis phone service, individual counseling, support groups, advocacy and legal clinics at no cost. In addition, the SVC staff educates over 12,000 people through community education and professional training efforts and works with community systems that assist sexual assault victims.
Sexual Violence Reported by Correctional Authorities, 2006
"This resource is an annual report on the incidence and prevalence of sexual violence within correctional facilities."
Shalom Bayit is Northern California's first and only Jewish domestic violence agency. We provide support to battered Jewish women, community education to Jewish organizations and groups, Jewish outreach training for shelter workers and battered womens programs, and technical support to organizations needing our assistance. We maintain a speakers bureau and an array of direct services to battered women and their children.
Service Region: California and general
Contact Info: Shalom Bayit
3543-18th Street #10
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 241-8874
No email contact please
Shelter Against Violent Environments
SAVE provides alternatives to domestic violence through support services, advocacy and education in Southern Alameda County, California. SAVE provides crisis counseling and referrals through a 24-hour crisis line - 510-794-6055. Their website includes information for survivors, including safety plan suggestions and information on stalking, restraining orders, and clearing Internet evidence.
Shimtuh (Korean Community Center of the East Bay)
The program provides technical assistance to Korean faith-based institutions and individuals to address domestic violence within their congregations and other faith-based communitites. Shimtuh's helpline provides the Korean American community with referrals for shelter, legal help, and professional counseling, assistance with social service benefits.
Sistercare, Inc. is a program of services for battered women and their children residing five counties in South Carolina.
Sounding Board Counseling Center
The Sounding Board Counseling Center is a comprehensive mental health facility in Ohio with a primary focus on domestic violence. The Center maintains an on-line national listing of domestic violence shelters by state, as well as articles about domestic violence.
Southern Valley Alliance for Battered Women
This direct service organization provides 24-hour emergency assistance for victims of battering, support groups for women and children of domestic violence, legal advocacy programs, visitation center, Criminal Intervention Program, community eduction speakers bureau and Childrens/Youth Advocacy programs.
Service Region: Scott and Carver Counties, MN
Contact Info: Southern Valley Alliance for Battered Women
PO Box 166, Belle Plaine, MN 56011
Business #: 952-873-4214
Hotline/Crisis: 952-873-4214
Spouse Abuse by Law Enforcement (SABLE)
Sponsored by Life Span, a nonprofit agency that provides comprehensive services to victims of domestic violence and their children. Its services include domestic violence counseling, criminal court advocacy, legal representation, immigration services, hospital advocacy, public education, and systemic policy work. Includes a 24-hour crisis line (847) 824-4454) and information about a manual on domestic violence.
Stalking Laws and Implementation Practices: A National Review for Policymakers and Practitioners
This report presents findings from a review of prior research on stalking and some original information gathering, resulting in a reassessment of the significance of stalking as a policy issue for criminal justice. The review also examines stalking's definitions, prevalence, and impact on victims. It provides an examination of criminal law, namely, the enactment of stalking laws and their reception in the courts and concludes with recommendations for legislators, agency administrators, funders, and researchers.
The executive summary is also available.
Standards For Batterers Intervention Programs
Batterer Intervention Program in the Central Indiana Program, Certified by the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence. A site dedicated to helping persons seek information, counseling and other resources which aim to intervene in both male and female batterers lives.
State Legislators: Handbook for Statutory Rape Issues
This handbook is designed to help State legislators develop effective and enforceable statutory rape laws that can and will be used to prosecute offenders and prevent occurrences of the crime.
Shelter program serving homeless/battered women and their children. Website includes information about services, domestic violence, breaking the cycle of violence, and keys to economic independence. They have a 24-hour crisis hotline, 1-800-SOS-9470.
Support Network for Battered Women
Website gives information about domestic violence, events, articles, resources, links, volunteer opportunities, giving to SNBW, sponsors, job opportunities, and services (client programs, legal department, and community education).
Survivor Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing the needs of intersex and trans survivors of domestic and sexual violence through caring action, education and expanding access to resources and to opportunities for action.
The Tahirih Justice Center is committed to creating a diverse community of support for women seeking refuge from gender-based persecution. The Center seeks to bring justice to the lives of women facing human rights abuses by transforming policies and law through direct services, outreach, and advocacy. The Center takes a holistic approach, recognizing that receiving immediate and urgent legal protection from abuse is just the beginning for women in their attainment of justice.
Tapestri: Refuge and Immigrant Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Advocates for refugee and immigrant families affected by domestic violence. Website inclues a list of their direct services (including multi-cultural training), men's groups, education materials, resources, and more.
TeenPCAR is a project of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape. This website provides information about rape among teenagers and ways to get help.
TESSA is the primary agency dedicated specifically and solely to the issues of domestic violence and sexual assault in El Paso and Teller Counties in Colorado. Formerly the Center for Prevention of Domestic Violence in Colorado Springs, TESSA offers services and programs to women, men, transgender and child victims of domestic violence. They also offer services and programs to adult victims of sexual assault.
Services include a 24-hour hotline for survivors (214-941-1991) and a separate hotline for abusers (214-692-8295); emergency shelter and supportive living transitional housing; children's therapeutic program; hospital emergency room battered women's intervention program; teen dating violence program; outreach services; batterers' intervention and prevention program; a speakers bureau, resources for incest, court advocacy program, bilingual services, and more.
The Federal Domestic Violence Laws and the Enforcement of These Laws
This chapter provides a concise summary of the federal offenses/statutes now available in both the Violence Against Women Act and the Gun Control Act to prosecute domestic violence offenders in the federal courts. It also provides a summary of selected prosecutions under each statute and a checklist of charges which may be brought buy state and local law enforcement authorities to charge offenders.
The Network/La Red: Ending Abuse in Lesbian, Bisexual Women's, and Transgender Communities
The Network/La Red provides information, services, support, and resources for lesbian, bisexual women, and transgender folks who are or have abused by their partner. Services include emergency shelter and support groups. The site contains articles on women to woman battering, ways to recognize domestic violence, suggestions for making a safety plan, and resources availble.
Service Region: Massachuesetts
Contact Info: Biligual, TTY Hotline- 617-423-7233
email: nblbw@erols.com
The New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project
Providing free counseling, crisis-intervention, and advocacy for survivors of trauma, crime and violence in New York City's diverse LGTB and HIV-affected communities. 24-hour, bilingual crisis hotline at 212-714-1141. Website includes victim information, publications, how to get involved, and other resources.
The Next Step Counseling and Training
Services include individual therapy, couples counseling, group therapy and clinical supervision as well as experiential workshops, professional trainings and public lectures. A primary focus of the work at The Next Step is adult male recovery from the effects of sexual child abuse and other trauma. Website includes internet resources and information about Small Wonder Books.
Region: Brookline, Massachusetts
Offers direct service interventions with self-referred and mandated perpetrators of domestic violence in Connecticut, as well as a national training and consulting component known as the Domestic Violence Intervention Training Institute(DVITI).
Service Region: Direct services are located in Connecticut.
Contact Info: David Mandel @ the Non-Violence Alliance
353 Main Street Middletown
CT 06457
tel: 1.860.347.8220.
The Northwest Network of Bisexual, Trans and Lesbian Survivors of Abuse
Support groups, individual counseling, advocacy and community education and organizing in the greater Seattle area. Resources and referrals also available to callers outside Seattle. All services are free and confidential.
Our program was formerly called AABL, Advocates for Abused and Battered Lesbians.
Service Region: greater Seattle area
Contact Info: info@nwnetwork.org
The San Diego Family Justice Center
The San Diego Family Justice Center is the most comprehensive "one stop shop" in the nation for victims of family violence and their children. Victims of domestic violence in the City of San Diego can now come to one location to talk to an advocate, get a restraining order, plan for their safety, talk to a police officer, meet with a prosecutor, receive medical assistance, counsel with a chaplain, get help with transportation, and obtain nutrition or pregnancy services counseling.
The Women's Resource Center, Inc.
The WRC provides victims of domestic violence and sexual assault with emergency shelter, 24-hour Crisis Line and access to a Rape Response Team.
Tokyo Rape Crisis Center is an independent organization working in Japan. They offer telephone counceling, publications, and seminars. They also are demanding to change the Judicial and Police responce to victims and translate foreign reports and studies of sexual assult.
Utah State Courts' Online Court Assistance Program
This website provides information about child welfare mediation, child support, and domestic violence court.
Victim Witness Program: Loudoun County, Virginia
Provides emotional support, counseling, advocacy, referral to local social service agencies, and (where possible) information on such things as: the status of the investigation; the status of the accused (arrested, released, conditions of release); the court system and their rights within it; safety and security, and much more.
Provides passive and interactive services to meet the legal information needs of abused women and their service providers in Alberta, Canada. Gives the facts on what is abuse, how to get out of your abusive relationship, how to contact the police and protect yourself, going to court and other legal details. Includes a web based learning exercise where you can "take on" different roles.
Wilder Foundation Domestic Violence Programs
The Wilder Foundation coordinates over 15 different programs related to domestic violence and child witnessing.
WomanSpace of New Jersey is dedicated to improving the lives of women in crisis. Their services include a shelter program, counseling and support services, and trainings about domestic violence and prevention. They also have a special curricula to train clergy about domestic violence. Their website includes educational information about dating violence, New Jersey statistics, and New Jersey resources.
WHBW provides emergency shelter and housing advocacy, 24-hour hotline counseling services, legal advocacy, children’s programs and many educational outreach programs.
Women Working Together Against Violence (NaNE!)
NaNE! is an organization in Budapest that runs Hungary's first hotline for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Information may no longer be current.
St. Paul shelter with 24-Hour Crisis Line (651)227-8284, advocacy, court advocacy, support groups, health center, volunteer opportunities, pro se divorce clinic, newsletter, school based violence prevention program, community education, and more.
Service region: Minnesota
Women's Aid Federation of England
Offers a national domestic violence helpline that gives support and advice and will find refuge accomodation for women and children in any part of the country. All calls are confidential. Website includes information about domestic violence and links to other websites.
Service Region: England
Contact Info: Helpline: (+44 011) 08457 023 468
Opening hours: Mon- Fri 10AM - 8PM, Sat 10AM- 5PM
Admin: (+44 011) 0117 944 4411
E-mail: info@womensaid.org.uk
Postal address:
PO Box 391
Bristol BS99 7WS
England
WCA shelters all victims of domestic violence and has worked to provide culturally diverse outreach services to those in our community who need help.
The web site contains health resources, project reports and bibliographies. Recent areas of work include adult survivors of childhood sexual assault, vicarious traumatisation for workers in this area, working with HIV positive women, working with women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
This website is a nationwide online resource for women and girls living with or escaping domestic violence.
The Women's Resource Center of Rhode Island is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to ending domestic violence and abuse through direct service and community education.
Women's Rural Advocacy Programs
WRAP is a collective of six offices serving six counties in southwestern Minnesota. WRAP provides advocacy for domestic abuse victims and their children in Cottonwood, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Redwood, and Yellow Medicine counties. This site includes general information about WRAP programs, a quarterly newsletter, and listings of domestic violence resources in northern Minnesota, southern Minnesota, the St. Paul/Minneapolis Metro area, and throughout the United States. Includes information about abuse, Native American DV info, General advocacy and more.
Working with Victims of Crime with Disabilities
This is a product of the Symposium on Working with Crime Victims with Disabilities, funded by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) and coordinated by the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA). They developed recommendations for OVC and the victim assistance field on improving the response in serving crime victims with disabilities.
Workplace Violence Research Institute
The Workplace Violence Research Institute was founded in 1992 and is located in Palm Springs, California. The Institute is a full-service provider in workplace violence prevention programs including consulting, training, incident prevention, crisis response, and program maintenance. This website includes information about the Institute, references, resource materials, services, and articles.