What is Family Violence?
| The focus of the FVPSA Program is family, domestic, and/or intimate partner violence. These terms are used to describe a pattern of behavior or actions used to exhort power and control over a current or former intimate partner. Family violence occurs in every culture, race, and socio-economic status regardless of gender or sexual orientation. Family Violence can take on many forms such as physical, psychological, and economic abuse. Victims may suffer many effects from the abuse including physical injury, death of primary or secondary victims, psychological trauma, isolation from family and friends, and a host of health and related mental health consequences. For information about child abuse, and/or sexual assault, please click on the following links:
Understanding the profound impact family violence has on children, families, and ultimately the community, the FVPSA Program sustains core services that provide safety for victims of family violence by supporting a network of community-based shelters and nonresidential services that offer safe housing, advocacy, legal assistance, counseling and support groups, safety planning, and crisis response to the States, State Domestic Violence Coalitions, Tribes and Tribal Organizations, Culturally Specific Institutes, Domestic Violence/Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) providers, the National Domestic Violence Hotline, 
the Domestic Violence Resource Network, and other Special Project Initiatives.
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