Web Sites: Domestic Violence

• ACT -- Adults and Children Together Against Violence
  ACT consists of a national multimedia campaign and community-based training programs. The violence-prevention campaign focuses on adults who raise, care for, and teach children under nine and provides the children with "positive role models and environments that teach nonviolent problem solving." The site is available in English and Spanish.
  
  
• American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence
  The American Bar Association's Web site on domestic violence features information on publications, resources and legal resources related to domestic violence. The commission seeks to develop a national response to the problem of domestic violence and to enhance existing policies and solutions.
  
  
• American Institute on Domestic Violence, Inc.
  This non-profit organization offers on-site workshops and conference presentations addressing the corporate cost of domestic violence in the workplace. Information about their programs, trainers, schedule, catalog, and additional resources is available on the site.
  
  
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) -- Violence Against Women
  Recognized as the "first national medical organization to respond to violence against women as a public health issue," ACOG's Web page provides links to screening tools, state and national resources, descriptions of ACOG's efforts, conference information, and related links.
  
  
• Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence
  To eliminate family violence and strengthen Asian families and communities, the task force conducts outreach, education, violence prevention, counseling, and advocacy programs. The task force's resources are specifically directed toward Asian families, providing multicultural and multilingual programming in Chinese, Khmer, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, and Hindi.
  
  
• Battered Women's Justice Project*
  The Battered Women's Justice Project "provides training, technical assistance and other resources through a partnership of three nationally-recognized organizations: Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women, and the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence."
  
  
• Call to Protect
  Call to Protect is a domestic violence prevention project which provides those in danger with instant access to help using wireless phones. The Wireless Foundation in cooperation with the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and telephone companies provide free, preprogrammed wireless phones and airtime to aid victims and their advocates.
  
  
• CAVNET
  Communities Against Violence Network started as a diverse network of professionals and advocates working in the areas of domestic violence. With the assistance of national organizations, including the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Humane Society of the United States, the National Organization for Women (NOW) and many other national organizations and individuals, CAVNET continues to develop and share resources.
  
  
• End Violence Against Women: Information and Resources
  The Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs compiled this online resource of documents, reports, journal articles, policy documentation, training materials, posters, radio programs, novelty items, and other information. The site is intended to provided needed information and materials to researchers, health communication specialists, policy makers, and others working to end violence against women.
  
  
• Ending Violence Against Women
  According to this report published by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the Center for Health and Gender Equity in December 1999, around the world at least one woman in every three has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime. Most often the abuser is a member of her own family. The authors report that violence against women is found in virtually every culture, everywhere around the globe and the victims almost always know their abusers. The report pulls together original research from more than 2,000 studies to present a global overview of violence against women.
  
  
• Family Violence Prevention Fund
  The Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) works "to end domestic violence and help women and children whose lives are devastated by abuse, because every person has a right to live in a home free of violence." FVPF's programs include the public education campaign, THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; a national initiative to train health care providers; the judicial education project; and the battered immigrant women's rights project. In addition, the FVPF collaborates with employers and unions to disseminate information through the National Workplace Resource Center on Domestic Violence.
  
  
• Feminist Majority Foundation: Violence Against Women
  This gateway has general information about violence against women as well as information on emotional abuse, stalking, and self-defense. It also lists research sites, organizations, shelters, services and other state and national resources. The Feminist Majority Foundation also compiles a useful list of Domestic Violence Hotlines and Resources.
  
  
• Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community
  This institute provides leadership and an interdisciplinary forum for scholars, professionals, and others interested in preventing family violence in the African American community. Perspectives on family violence are articulated through research findings, the examination of service delivery and intervention tools, and the identification of appropriate and effective preventive responses.
  
  
• MINCAVA
  MINCAVA, the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse, focuses on enhancing and expanding higher education opportunities for educators, health care and criminal justice professionals, and social service providers. The clearinghouse also conducts research on violence-related issues and provides access to new information on violence intervention on the Internet. For example, the extensive resources for educators include up-to-date articles, fact sheets, and reports; bibliographies; course syllabi; multimedia resources; and links to resource people.
  
  
• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCDAV)
  "NCADV��s work includes coalition building at the local, state, regional and national levels; support for the provision of community-based, non-violent alternatives - such as safe home and shelter programs - for battered women and their children; public education and technical assistance; policy development and innovative legislation; focus on the leadership of NCADV��s caucuses and task forces developed to represent the concerns of organizationally under represented groups; and efforts to eradicate social conditions which contribute to violence against women and children."
  
  
• National Coalition for Domestic Abuse Awareness
  The mission of the coalition is to provide legislators, law enforcement, members of the bar, media, judiciary and domestic abuse field practitioners with accurate and useful information. Statistical resources are available for 19 states with more to follow. The site also links to the television documentary, "Living with the Enemy," shown on CBS's "48 Hours."
  
  
• National Domestic Violence Hotline
  Part of the milestone legislation of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, the National Domestic Violence Hotline provides callers with information from a database of more than 4,000 shelters and service providers throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Hawaii, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Since its inception, the hotline has answered "more than 650,000 phone calls from victims of domestic violence, family members and friends from all over the world. Currently, more than 13,000 callers reach out to the Hotline every month for crisis intervention, referrals and general information about domestic violence." To reach the hotline dial 1-800-799-SAFE or 1-800-787-3224 (TDD).
  
  
• National Domestic Violence Organizations
  The Violence Against Women Office of the U.S. Dept. of Justice compiled this list of national organizations which work to prevent domestic violence. Contact information for regional organizations are listed as well.
  
  
• The Project for Research on Welfare, Work and Domestic Violence
  Hosted by the University of Michigan School of Social Work, the joint Project for Research on Welfare, Work, and Domestic Violence seeks to foster collaboration among researchers, policy makers, and community organizations which are concerned with the nexus of welfare and domestic violence issues. The project provides national coordination of research and public education on the relationship of domestic violence to poverty and welfare use.
  
  
• Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody*
  Established in 1993 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which provided funding for a state-of-the-art network of four domestic violence resource centers, including one for Native American Women. "The resource center offers a wide range of technical and training services to judges, court workers, advocates, lawyers, child protective workers, law enforcement personnel and other professionals." It is run by the Family Violence Department of the National Council of Family and Juvenile Court Judges.
  
  
• Safe Horizon
  This site includes essential information for battered women, a tour of a domestic violence shelter, facts and figures, and a map for locating resources in the United States. It provides a detailed list of state and local hotlines, shelters, and information sources, and links to over 150 international resources.
  
  
• Victim Services Domestic Violence Shelter Tour
  Safe Horizon, which operates a 24-hour domestic violence hotline, has designed this site around people needing help. Features include a tour of a domestic violence shelter, essential information for battered women, issues surrounding domestic violence, a map to locate domestic violence resources around the country, and links to resources throughout the world.
  
  
• Violence Against Women Online Resources
  "This site is a cooperative project of VAWO - the Violence Against Women Office, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Dept. of Justice, and MINCAVA - the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse at the University of Minnesota. The site is advised by a National Advisory Board made up of professionals from a spectrum of criminal justice and related professions." In addition to an events calendar and a list of significant links, the library portion contains documents related to domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, children, research and evaluation, and model programs and legislation.
  
  *Part of the Domestic Violence Resource Network