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Domestic Violence and Economic Empowerment Resources

National Domestic Violence Hotline / Linea Nacional sobre la Violencia Doméstica
For advocacy, counseling and referral, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You will reach a trained advocate who can talk with you about your situation, your safety, and the options available to you. Friends and family members are also welcome to call for information. All conversations with hotline advocates are strictly confidential. Support is available in English or Spanish, with interpreters available for over 139 languages.
Toll Free Phone: 1-(800)-799-SAFE (7233) - TTY: 1-(800)-787-3224

National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) Fund is the leading voice for domestic violence victims and their advocates. NNEDV Fund offers a range of cutting-edge programs designed to meet the needs of victims. Initiatives include increasing financial literacy and economic self-sufficiency; providing education on using technology safely and strategically to escape abuse; providing emergency financial assistance for survivors, as well as financial assistance to obtain job training and education; and engaging and educating survivors as active participants in the election process.
Phone: (202) 543-5566

EconEmpowerment.org, a component of The Allstate Foundation Domestic Violence Program, provides domestic violence survivors with comprehensive information and resources to achieve safer and more financially secure lives.

General Information about Domestic Violence

Break the Cycle educates teens about healthy dating relationships and engages them to speak out against domestic violence.
Phone: (303) 286-3383

Family Violence Prevention Fund works to prevent violence within the home, and in the community, to help those whose lives are devastated by abuse by educating the public and improving institutions' response to domestic violence.
Phone: (415) 252-8900 – TTY: 1-(800)-595-4889

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence serves as a national information and referral center for the general public, media, battered women and their children, allied and member agencies and organizations.
Phone: (303) 839-1852 - TTY: (303) 831-1681

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence provides comprehensive information and resources, policy development and assistance to enhance community response to and prevention of domestic violence. NRCDV enhances the capacity of organizations and individuals working to end violence in the lives of women and their children and proactively supports the work of national, state, and local domestic violence programs.
Toll Free Phone: 1-(800)-537-2238 - TTY: 1-(800)-553-2508

VAWnet: the National Electronic Network on Violence Against Women, a project of NRCDV, provides a comprehensive online collection of advocacy-based electronic resources on domestic violence, sexual violence, and related intersecting issues. Resources include applied research papers, policy and practice papers, federal and state funding information, prevention and public education materials, community advocacy materials and information about other national, state, regional and local organizations and programs.
Toll Free Phone: 1-(800)-537-2238 - TTY: 1-(800)-553-2508

Violence Against Women Online Resources (VAWOR) provides law, criminal justice, advocacy, and social service professionals with up-to-date information on interventions to stop violence against women through the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse.

Culturally Specific Domestic Violence Information

Alianza: National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence/Alianza: Latina Nacional para Erradicar la Violencia Doméstic is "a group of nationally recognized Latina and Latino advocates, community activists, practitioners, researchers, and survivors of domestic violence working together to promote an understanding, sustain dialogue, and generate solutions to move toward the elimination of domestic violence affecting Latino communities, with an understanding of the sacredness of all relations and communities."
Toll Free Phone: 1-(800)-342-9908

Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence works "to eliminate domestic violence in Asian and Pacific Islander communities by increasing awareness about the extent and depth of the problem; making culturally specific issues visible; strengthening community models of prevention and intervention; identifying and expanding resources; informing and promoting research and policy; and deepening...understanding and analyses of the issues surrounding violence against women."
Phone: (415) 954-9988 ext. 315

Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community works with African-American communities, including families, individuals, and organizations serving the target population; legal and criminal justice systems; family and community violence practitioners; researchers; and policymakers around efforts to build the knowledge base regarding African Americans and domestic violence and to develop strategies to meet the service needs of this population.
Toll Free Phone: 1-(877)-NIDVAAC (643-8222)

Sacred Circle: National Resource Center to End Violence Against Native Women
Sacred Circle provides technical assistance, policy development, training institutes, and resource information on ending domestic violence and sexual assault in American Indian / Alaska Native tribal communities. Operated by Cangleska, Inc., Sacred Circle aids tribes, tribal organizations and nations to stop violence against Native women.
Toll Free Phone: 1-(877)-733-7623

Domestic Violence Training and Resources

Battered Women's Justice Project
The Battered Women's Justice Project provides training, technical assistance, and other resources through a partnership of three organizations.

  • Domestic Abuse Intervention Project - Criminal Justice. Addresses the criminal justice system's response to domestic violence including batterers' programs. Ext. 1
  • The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence - Civil Justice. Addresses civil court access and legal representation issues. Ext. 2
  • National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women - Defense. Addresses battered women charged with crimes and members of their defense teams. Ext. 3

Toll Free Phone: 1-(800)-903-0111

Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence at the Family Violence Prevention Fund
The Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence provides technical assistance, training, public policy form, and materials to those interested in developing a comprehensive health care response to domestic violence in all health care settings.
Toll Free Phone: 1-(888)-Rx-ABUSE (792-2873)

Legal Momentum, through its Employment and Housing Rights for Victims of Domestic Violence Program, provides training for advocates, lawyers, employers and landlords to help domestic violence victims all over the country maintain employment and safe housing.
Phone: (212) 925-6635

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges provides training and research to improve the effectiveness of our nation's juvenile and family courts.
Phone: (775)784-6012

National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence provides training, consulting and advocacy at local, state, regional and national levels. NCDSV promotes a community collaboration model and collaborates with law enforcement, legal system agencies, advocacy organizations, social service agencies, the military and other community entities in their efforts to end domestic and sexual violence.
Phone: (512) 407-9020

Other Allied Organizations

National Alliance to End Sexual Violence utilizes a comprehensive grassroots communication network to shape national policy related to sexual violence and victims' needs, ensure funding for rape crisis programs and sexual assault coalitions, and provide expertise to governments, businesses and non-profit organizations addressing sexual violence in all of its forms.

National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) is a project of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape. NSVRC provides resources (information, technical assistance, and materials) to national organizations, state sexual assault coalitions, community-based programs, allied organizations, and the public. NSVRC works to strengthen support systems serving sexual assault survivors, and to support the development of policy and practice that produce effective interventions for and prevention of sexual violence.
Toll Free Phone: 1-(877) 739-3895 - TTY: (717) 909-0715

RAINN: The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice. The National Sexual Assault Online Hotline provides free and confidential crisis support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Toll Free Phone: 1-(800)-656-HOPE (4673)

Stalking Resource Center (SRC), a program of the National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC), raises national awareness of stalking and encourages the development and implementation of multidisciplinary responses to stalking in local communities. SRC provides trainings, an information clearinghouse, a practitioners' network and a peer-to-peer exchange program.
Toll Free Phone: 1-(800)-FYI-CALL (394-2255) - TTY: 1-(800)-211-7996