|
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE NETWORK The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funds the Domestic Violence Resource Network (DVRN). DVRN member agencies ensure that victims of domestic violence, advocates, community-based programs, educators, legal assistance providers, law enforcement and court personnel, health care providers, policy makers, and government leaders at the local, state, tribal, and federal levels have access to up-to-date information on best practices, policies, research and victim resources. The DVRN works collaboratively to promote practices and strategies in order to improve the nation’s response to domestic violence and make safety and justice not just a priority, but also a reality nationwide. Member Agencies of the DVRN include: two national resource centers, three special issue resource centers, four culturally-specific Institutes, the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health, the National Network to End Domestic Violence, and the National Domestic Violence Hotline. NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTERS National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
800-537-2238
http://www.nrcdv.org and http://www.vawnet.org The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) provides a broad range of technical assistance and includes domestic violence intervention and prevention, community education and organizing, public policy and systems advocacy, and funding. The NRCDV develops information packets, fact sheets, applied research papers, funding alerts, and training curricula, and supports several special projects designed to explore issues more deeply or develop more comprehensive assistance to a particular constituent group. Sacred Circle: National Resource Center to End Violence Against Native Women
877-733-7623
http://www.sacred-circle.com/ Sacred Circle: National Resource Center to End Violence Against Native Women (Sacred Circle) addresses violence against Indian women in the context of unique historical, jurisdictional and cultural issues. Sacred Circle provides leadership in establishing a multi-faceted, systemic response to facilitate nonviolence in American Indian communities. Sacred Circle is a project of Cangleska, Inc., a tribally-chartered nonprofit organization that provides domestic violence services to the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. Sacred circle provides specialized technical assistance that is available to over 500 Federally-recognized American Indian nations in the United States to help develop community and culturally-based responses to end violence against native women, including tribal law enforcement personnel, probation officers, shelter advocates, and staff of batterer intervention programs.
SPECIAL ISSUE RESOURCE CENTERS The Battered Women’s Justice Project
800-903-0111 ext. 1
http://www.bwjp.org/ The Battered Women’s Justice Project (BWJP) consists of two partnering agencies that operate in separate locations. The BWJP Criminal and Civil Justice Office located in Minneapolis, MN and the BWJP Defense Office - National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women (NCDBW.org) located in Philadelphia, PA. The BWJP Criminal and Civil Justice Office focuses on how effective intervention requires inter-agency coordination and policy development to direct individual practitioners in the use of arrest, prosecution, sentencing, victim safeguards, and batterers' intervention programs. In addition, they provide information on advocacy for victims of domestic violence by military personnel. The BWJP Criminal and Civil Justice office focuses on civil justice issues by providing important leadership aimed at enhancing justice for battered women and their children in the civil legal arena and improving battered women's access to civil justice options and to help obtain quality legal representation in civil court processes. The National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women
800-903-0111 ext. 3
http://www.bwjp.org The National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women (NCDBW) addresses the unique needs of battered women who, as a result of the abuse they have experienced at the hands of their intimate partner, end up charged with a crime. NCDBW aims to prevent revictimizing women that have been battered through specialized technical assistance, resources, and support. NCDBW is an advocate for public policy and institutional and social change and conducts trainings for criminal justices and advocacy communities, and consults with state, local, and national organizations and maintains an extensive Resource Library of relevant case law, research, and litigation materials. The National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence
888-792-2873
http://www.endabuse.org The National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence (HRC) is a project of the Family Violence Prevention Fund their efforts include improving health and public health responses to victims of family violence. The HRC offers model strategies and tools to domestic violence and sexual assault programs, and health care providers that address and prevent the chronic health issues associated with exposure to abuse. HRC works closely with the American Medical Association and other professional health associations, and produces policy guidelines for health care professionals responding to domestic violence. The HRC provides technical assistance, training, public policy recommendations, and materials and responds to thousands requests for technical assistance annually. The Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody
800-527-3223
http://www.ncjfcj.org/content/view/20/94 A project of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, The Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody ensures that family and juvenile court cases are handled in a manner that recognizes the complexity of the legal, cultural, and psychological aspects of domestic violence and provides protection and relief for all victims in the family. For more than a decade, the Resource Center has been engaged in the process of infusing domestic violence knowledge into child protection and custody practice and reducing the unintended consequences of such practice through its targeted technical and training assistance, through its work with communities to explore, examine, and develop state-of-the-art policies and practices in this special issue area, and through its collaborations with the other members of the Domestic Violence Resource Network. CULTURALLY SPECIFIC RESOURCE CENTERS The Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence
415- 568-3315
http://www.apiidv.org/ The Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence (API Institute) is a national resource center and clearinghouse on gender violence in Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities. It serves a national network of community-based organizations; advocates and professionals in legal, health, mental health, and social services; government agencies; state coalitions; national domestic and sexual violence organizations; and activists from communities and social justice organizations working to eliminate violence against women. It identifies and addresses critical issues, provides technical assistance and training, conducts research, and engages in policy advocacy. Its goals are to strengthen advocacy, promote community organizing, and influence systems change.
Encuentro Latino National Institute on Family Violence
888-743-7545
http://www.latinodv.org Encuentro Latino National Institute on Family Violence (Encuentro Latino) is a program of New Mexico State University School of Social Work, in collaboration with La Casa, Inc., a non-profit domestic violence services provider and is one of the newest members of the DVRN. Encuentro Latino provides free technical assistance, training, and consultation that is informed through the recommendations of Latino and Hispanic survivors of domestic violence. Its goal is to help providers and others develop capacity to effectively serve Latino clients. Encuentro Latino promotes best practices for Latino populations through providing information on promising techniques related to program implementation, service delivery, and evaluation. Encuentro Latino also works to further the knowledge base in regards to Latinos and family violence through research and dissemination of culturally competent approaches. Encuentro Latino also provides several web-based resources, training modules, and information on best practices and other useful information. The Immigrant Family Violence Institute
314-773-9090 ext. 150
http://www.iistl.org The Immigrant Family Violence Institute (IFVI) is a national collaboration of six ethnically diverse immigrant service agencies located throughout the US working to enhance, document and disseminate promising practices to eliminate domestic violence against immigrant women. They are working to identify culturally appropriate outreach and engagement, prevention and intervention services for domestic violence among immigrants, and dissemination of materials nationally. The guiding principle for IFVI is to engage in practitioner-driven community services research using the practice wisdom of a range of experts, including survivors, immigrant community leaders, attorneys, mainstream DV providers, social workers and researchers, The Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community
877-643-8222
http://www.dvinstitute.org The Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community (IDVAAC) that focuses on the unique circumstances of African Americans as they face issues related to domestic violence – including intimate partner violence, child abuse, elder maltreatment, and community violence.
IDVAAC's mission is to enhance society's understanding of and ability to end violence in the African-American community. They have created a community of African American scholars & practitioners that work in the area of violence in the African American community. IDVAAC organizes and facilitates local and national conferences and training forums; inform public policy; and help communities identify needs and develop best practices OTHER DVRN PARTNERS The National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health
312-726-7020
http://www.nationalcenterdvtraumamh.org The National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health is committed to developing comprehensive, accessible, and culturally-relevant responses to the range of trauma- and mental health-related issues faced by domestic violence survivors and their children, promoting advocacy that is survivor-defined and rooted in the principles of social justice, and eradicating the social and psychological conditions that contribute to interpersonal abuse and violence across the lifespan. The Center offers information about current practice, model approaches and policies, and successful collaborations as well as individualized training, capacity-building assistance, and consultation. The National Network to End Domestic Violence
202-543-5566
http://www.nnedv.org The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) is one of the leading voices for victims of domestic violence and their advocates. NNEDV provides its member state and territory domestic violence coalitions as well as allied organizations with critical information and resources through training, technical assistance and support in a variety of areas that impact victims of domestic violence and their advocates. NNEDV works closely with its membership and allied organizations to understand the ongoing and emerging needs of victims and the programs that serve them, and ensures that those needs are understood at the national level. The National Domestic Violence Hotline
800-799-SAFE (7233)
800-787-3224 TTY for the Deaf
http://www.ndvh.org The National Domestic Violence Hotline serves as the only domestic violence hotline in the nation with access to more than 5,000 shelters and domestic violence programs across the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Hotline is toll-free, confidential, and anonymous. The Hotline is available to callers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and assistance is available in English, and Spanish with access to more than 170 languages through interpreter services, with a TTY line available for the Deaf, Deaf-Blind, and Hard of Hearing. Hotline advocates are available for victims and anyone calling on their behalf to provide crisis intervention, safety planning, information, and referrals to agencies. ADDITIONAL LINKS American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic Violence American Domestic Violence Crisis Line (formerly American Women Overseas) Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System of the London Family Court Clinic Child Welfare League of America Family Violence Prevention Fund Hot Peach Pages: World-Wide List of Abuse Agencies Judicial Council of California’s Center for Families, Children, and the Courts Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense Fund) Legal Resource Center on Violence Against Women Military Family Resource Center Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse National Center for Missing and Exploited Children National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit National Coalition Against Domestic Violence National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs National Domestic Violence Library and Clearinghouse National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (Alianza) National Lawyers Guild, National Immigration Project Office on Violence Against Women Praxis International Tapestri, Inc. VAW Net National Electronic Network on Violence Against Women Women’s Law Initiative U.S. Department of Health and Huiman Services U.S. Department of Justice Office of Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Office for Violence Against Women State Justice Institute Ford Foundation Conrad Hilton Foundation Johnson Foundation David and Lucile Packard Foundation These links are provided solely as a convenience to the user. Inclusion of said links is in no way an endorsement of the websites or contents of such websites by the Family Violence Department of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. Family Violence Department – (800) 527-3223 or (800) 52-PEACE
Fax (775) 784-6160 – fvdinfo@ncjfcj.org |
Links 
