Domestic Violence Resource Network Organizations Descriptions

Domestic Violence Resource Network Organizations Descriptions

The Domestic Violence Resource Network (DVRN) informs and strengthens domestic violence intervention and prevention efforts at the individual, community, and societal levels. DVRN member organizations are funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to work collaboratively to promote practices and strategies to improve our nation’s response to domestic violence and make safety and justice a priority. DVRN members ensure that victims of domestic violence, advocates, community 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.

 

National Resource Centers

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence      

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800-537-2238
www.nrcdv.org  and www.vawnet.org

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) provides a wide range of free, comprehensive and individualized technical assistance, training and resource materials. The scope of NRCDV’s technical assistance is broad and includes domestic violence intervention and prevention, community education and organizing, public policy and systems advocacy, and funding. The NRCDV develops special collections, 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. These special projects include the Domestic Violence Awareness Project, VAWnet — the National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women (funded by CDC), Building Comprehensive Solutions to Domestic Violence, and the DV Evidence Project and related research initiatives.

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center  

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855-649-7299
www.niwrc.org

The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, Inc. (NIWRC) is a Native nonprofit organization created to serve as the National Indian Resource Center (NIRC) Addressing Domestic Violence and Safety for Indian Women. As the National Indian Resource Center, NIWRC offers interwoven specialized expertise across domestic violence, sexual violence and healthy relationships through various disciplines and culturally specific resources across and for the movement.  NIWRC is a national technical assistance provider to Alaska Village programs and Tribal Coalitions across Indian Country. NIWRC offers free trainings, networking, NIWRC Toolkits, resources and culturally relevant responses to intimate partner and gender violence and promotes the leadership of Indigenous programs serving their communities. With additional circles of the anti-violence movement, NIWRC is dedicated to grassroots and policy advocacy, prevention, education, research activities, program development, raising public awareness, events sharing, offender accountability and traditional interventions of healthy relationships, justice on and off-tribal lands designed by and for Native Women base on their trial beliefs and practices.

State Resource Center to Reduce Tribal Disparities

Alaska Native Women’s Resource Center 

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907-328-3990
www.aknwrc.org  

The Alaska Native Women’s Resource Center (AKNWRC) is dedicated to strengthening local, tribal governments’ responses through community organizing efforts advocating for the safety of women and children in their communities and homes, especially against domestic and sexual abuse and violence. Through the voices, languages, and teachings of tribes, survivors, and advocates, and in partnership with allies and other stakeholders, AKNWRC provides a voice at the local, statewide, national, and international levels for life-saving changes needed in laws, policies, and social norms. AKNWRC envisions Tribal women, communities, and families free from violence, healing the trauma and utilizing the wisdom of our ancestors to create effective community/Tribal responses to domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, trafficking, sexual assault, and related injustices.

Special Issues Resource Centers

Battered Women's Justice Project Criminal and Civil Justice Center

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800-903-0111, ext 1
www.bwjp.org

The Battered Women’s Justice Project consists of two partnering agencies that operate in separate locations. The Battered Women’s Justice Project (BWJP) promotes change within the civil and criminal justice systems that enhances their effectiveness in providing safety, security and justice for battered women and their families. BWJP provides technical assistance to advocates, civil attorneys, judges and court personnel, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, probation officers, batterers intervention program staff, defense attorneys and policymakers; and to victims of domestic violence and their families and friends. Through trainings and consultations, BWJP disseminates up-­to-­date information on recent research findings and promotes the implementation of best practices and policies that emerge from the work of pioneering communities around the country.

Child Protection and Child Custody Center   

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855-CAMINAR (855-226-4627)
https://caminarlatino.org/

Child Protection and Custody (Resource Center) is a project of Caminar Latino. Since 1993, the Resource Center has provided training and technical assistance to advocates, professionals, and communities seeking to improve outcomes in child protection and custody cases that involve domestic violence, while also leading policy reform in those areas. The Resource Center operates an 800-line for survivors and professionals seeking information, referrals, research, and support. In addition, the Resource Center supports and coordinates policy- and practice-focused meetings, trainings, and publications which lead the field in developing evidence-building and evidence-based practice, as well as interventions which are safe and supportive of families.

National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women 

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1-800-903-0111, ext. 3
www.ncdbw.org

The National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women, located in Philadelphia, PA, addresses the unique needs of victims of battering who, as a result of the abuse they have experienced at the hands of their intimate partner, end up charged with a crime.  The National Clearinghouse strives to prevent the revictimization of battered defendants by providing specialized technical assistance, resources, and support to battered women charged with crimes and to members of their defense teams.

National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence 

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1-888-792-2873
www.futureswithoutviolence.org/health

For almost two decades, the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence (HRC) has supported health care professionals, domestic violence experts, survivors, and policy makers at all levels as they improve health care’s response to domestic violence. The HRC offers personalized, expert technical assistance, an online toolkit for health care providers and DV advocates to prepare a clinical practice to address domestic and sexual violence, a free E-Bulletin and webinar series. The HRC also holds the biennial National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence—a scientific meeting at which health, medical and domestic violence experts and leaders explore the latest health research and programmatic responses to domestic violence.

National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health  

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1-312-726-7020
www.nationalcenterdvtraumamh.org

The National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health (NCDVTMH) promotes survivor-defined healing, liberation, and equity by transforming the systems that impact survivors of domestic and sexual violence and their families. NCDVTMH enhances agency- and system-level responses to survivors and their families through comprehensive training and technical assistance, research and evaluation, policy development, and public awareness. Emphasizing an accessible, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed approach, NCDVTMH offers training and consultation to domestic violence and sexual assault advocates, programs, and coalitions; healthcare, mental health, and substance use providers; legal and child welfare professionals; and local, state, and federal policymakers. 

Culturally-Specific Institutes

Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence 

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415-568-3315
www.api-gbv.org

Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence is a national training and technical assistance provider and a clearinghouse on gender violence in Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities. It serves a national network of advocates, community members, organizations, service agencies, professionals, researchers, policy advocates and activists from community and social justice organizations working to eliminate violence against women. The API Institute’s strategic agenda for programs, communities and systems focuses on analyzing the critical issues that inform prevention and intervention in violence against Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women. This is achieved by improving the cultural relevancy of services; providing the tools to confront and change gender norms; and conducting research and policy reviews that increase access to systems.

Esperanza United 

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651-646-5553
https://esperanzaunited.org/en/

Esperanza United serves a national network of advocates, community members, organizations, service agencies, professionals, researchers, policy advocates, and activists from the community and social justice organizations to eliminate gender-based violence in Latin communities. This organization offers training, technical assistance, and critical resources to help further promote the need for strong communities working together. Additionally, Esperanza United’s Latina Advocacy Framework provides the foundation on how best to support Latin@ survivors, families, and communities gain greater safety, connectedness, and self-sufficiency.

Los Angeles LGBTQ Center 

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323-993-7400
https://lalgbtcenter.org/

Since 1969 the Los Angeles LGBT Center has cared for, championed, and celebrated LGBT individuals and families in Los Angeles and beyond. Today the Center's nearly 800 employees provide services for more LGBT people than any other organization in the world, offering programs, services, and global advocacy that span four broad categories: Health, Social Services and Housing, Culture and Education, Leadership and Advocacy. Despite our size, scope, and determination to meet the growing demand for our services, we remain a lean, fiscally disciplined organization, earning a four-star Charity Navigator rating for eleven consecutive years. 

Ujima, Inc.: The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community  

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1-844-77-UJIMA (778-5462)
www.ujimacommunity.org

Ujima is a national resource center that addresses domestic, sexual and community violence. It responds to and develops an active approach to ending violence against women in the Black community. The name Ujima, Inc., was derived from the Kwanzaa Principle of “Ujima,” which means Collective Work and Responsibility. Ujima, Inc. provides education and outreach, training and technical assistance, resource development, research, and public policy efforts. It works to mobilize the black community and its allies to strengthen our families, recognizing that the safety and viability of our families is connected to the health and well-being of our individual neighborhoods and communities at large. Ujima, Inc. defines the black community as the African Diaspora in its broadest sense, e.g., African-Americans (descendants of slaves in the U.S.), African immigrants, Afro-Caribbeans, and Afro-Latinos/as.

Capacity Building Centers

National Network to End Domestic Violence 

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202-543-5566
nnedv.org

The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) Capacity Technical Assistance project provides comprehensive, specialized technical assistance and training to FVPSA formula grantees including state and territory domestic violence coalitions and advocacy organizations, FVPSA state administrators, and tribal programs. In addition, NNEDV has developed resources on building organizational capacity, spanning issues such as best practices, standards, certification, quality assurance, trauma-informed approaches, diversity and inclusion, and role clarity. NNEDV helps build strong organizations by coaching them through leadership transitions, implementation of evidence-based practice models, infrastructure development to effectively manage financial and reporting requirements, and improving the inclusion of historically marginalized communities.

Promising Futures Without Violence 

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617-294-6526
promising.futureswithoutviolence.org

Promising Futures Capacity Building Center (the Center), a project of Futures Without Violence (FUTURES), provides support on enhancing services for children, youth and their abused parents impacted by domestic violence. The Center provides support to build organizational structures and services that prioritize child well-being, opportunities for healing, building resilience, and breaking the intergenerational cycle of violence all within the context of the parent-child relationship. The Center is an expansion of FUTURES’ Clearinghouse of information on the Promising Futures Website. The Center supports the Specialized Services for Abused Parents and their Children (SSAPC) grantees as well as the field through facilitating a learning community, offering technical assistance and training, developing new resources and tools, and growing the research within evidence-based, trauma-informed, culturally relevant practices for children, youth and their parents.

Safe Housing Partnerships 

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800-537-2238
www.safehousingpartnerships.org

NRCDV also operates the FVPSA-funded national capacity building center on safe and supportive housing for survivors as members of the Domestic Violence Housing Technical Assistance Consortium (DVHTAC). The DVHTAC is a federal technical assistance consortium that leverages federal resources for housing, homelessness, and domestic and sexual violence service providers and advocates. This initiative strives to improve coordination across service systems; integrate trauma-informed assessments for violence into a coordinated response; help continuums of care (CoCs) develop partnerships with victim services providers; and identify policies and practices that promote positive outcomes, resilience, and stability for survivors and their children.

Tribal Safe Housing Capacity Building Center  

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406-477-3896
https://www.niwrc.org/resources/webinars/introducing-tribal-safe-housing-center

The National Indigenous Women's Resource Center recently established the Tribal Safe Housing Center to address the intersection of housing instability/homelessness and domestic violence. This groundbreaking FVPSA-funded initiative includes various learning sessions, training, and technical assistance in one of the most pressing needs within the Tribal communities. These advocates look forward to sharing space with you as they work towards a vision of "Safe Housing for All Our Relatives."

National Hotlines/Helplines

National Domestic Violence Hotline 

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1-800-799-7233
1-800-787-3224 (TTY)
www.thehotline.org

The National Domestic Violence Hotline visit disclaimer page provides an immediate response to victims of domestic violence and their families, and a seamless referral system to community programs in response to the needs of the women, men and children on the line. The Hotline, operated 24/7 and available in 170 languages, is the first step to safety for many callers whose unique situation is assessed and evaluated to meet short-term needs, with a local referral to assist the caller in dealing with the long-­term effects of family violence.

National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline

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1-866-331-9474
1-866-331-8453 (TTY)
Text “loveis” to 22522
http://www.loveisrespect.org

Teens and parents anywhere in the country can the National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline call toll free or log on to the interactive Web site, loveisrespect.org, and receive immediate, confidential assistance. In addition to a toll-free phone line, loveisrepect.org is the first interactive dating abuse website, staffed by trained advocates, where teens can write and immediately get assistance in a one-on-one private chat room.

StrongHearts Native Helpline  

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1-844-7NATIVE (1-844-762-8483)
Text your message to 1-844-762-8483
Chat online on their website
www.strongheartshelpline.org  Visit disclaimer page

The StrongHearts Native Helpline is a 24/7 culturally appropriate, anonymous, confidential service dedicated to serving Native American survivors of domestic violence and dating violence and concerned family members and friends. StrongHearts connects callers at no cost one-on-one with knowledgeable advocates who can provide lifesaving tools and immediate support to enable Native survivors to find safety and live lives free of abuse. StrongHearts is a Native-centered hotline staffed by advocates with a strong understanding of Native cultures, as well as issues of tribal sovereignty and law. StrongHearts is a partnered effort, combining the technology and infrastructure of the National Domestic Violence Hotline with the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center’s expertise and community connections, as well as the trust of Native advocacy groups. 


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For additional information on our DVRN partners visit the Family Violence Prevention & Services Resource Centers website.