Violence Against Women Prevention Links

Model Programs & Best Practices

Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF)
endabuse.org/programs/display.php3?DocID=35

Description: The FVPF works to end violence against women and children around the world. They were instrumental in developing the landmark Violence Against Women Act passed by Congress in 1994. The FVPF has expanded to new audiences, including men and youth, and continues to promote leadership within communities to ensure that violence prevention efforts become self-sustaining, and transform the way health care providers, police, judges, employers and others address violence.

Information Available: Model programs on health care and domestic violence, topic-specific programs (i.e. children, health, immigrant women, international, judicial, public education, public policy and workplace), health toolbox, technical assistance, fact sheets, personal stories and news alerts.

Violence Against Women (VAW) Online Resources
www.vaw.umn.edu/library/mp/

Description: VAW Online Resources, a cooperative project of the Office on Violence Against Women and the Minnesota Center Against Violence & Abuse, obtains advice from a National Advisory Board comprised of professionals from a spectrum of criminal justice and related professions.

Information Available: Model programs, a document library by topic, trainings and events, funding opportunities and links to contributing organizations.

Federal Government:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC),
Division of Violence Prevention
www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/dvp.htm

Description: The CDC began studying home and recreational injuries in the early 1970s and violence prevention in 1983. From these early activities grew a national program to reduce injury, disability, death and costs associated with injuries outside the workplace. The CDC established the NCIPC in 1992 as the lead federal agency for injury prevention. The NCIPC works closely with other federal agencies; national, state, and local organizations; state and local health departments and research institutions.

Information Available: Surveillance data, research, program evaluation, communication efforts, training, funded projects and funding opportunities, fact sheets, publications, latest news and resources. A section on Intimate Partner Violence Prevention (www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/IPV/default.htm) provides fact sheets, reports, data sources, and definitions.

MEDLINEplus-Health Information
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/domesticviolence.html

Description: MEDLINEplus, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, includes a vast amount of health information on over 600 diseases and conditions. The site offers authoritative, up to date and appropriate health information for both health professionals and consumers.

Information Available: General overviews, diagnosis and symptoms, prevention and screening, associated conditions and aspects, directories, law and policy, statistics, specific populations and links to related MEDLINEplus topics.

United States Department of Justice (DOJ),
Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)
www.usdoj.gov/ovw/

Description: Since its inception in 1995, the OVW has handled the DOJ's legal and policy issues regarding violence against women, coordinated Departmental efforts, provided national and international leadership, received international visitors interested in learning about the federal government's role in addressing violence against women and responded to requests for information regarding violence against women.

Information Available: Toolkit to end violence against women, Federal laws and regulations, DOJ research and statistical publications, online resources, state-by-state OVW activities, basics concerning sexual assault, funding opportunities and state administering agencies.

Missouri Government:

Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS)
Violence Against Women Prevention Plan
www.dhss.mo.gov/ViolenceAgainstWomen/

Description: DHSS has led a planning effort to address violence against women in Missouri. Violence against women affects women across all economic, educational, cultural, racial and religious lines. As the leading cause of injury for American women between the ages of 15 and 54 years, violence is an ominous public health problem in this country.

Information Available: A state level plan that seeks to focus on preventing violence from happening in order to reduce the future need for services. This plan proposes to engage men in the area of violence prevention, an area where they are traditionally not involved as resources but heavily involved as part of the problem. Men will work in allegiance with women and girls to end violence against women.

Missouri Coalition Against Domestic Violence (MCADV)
www.mocadsv.org

Description: MCADV, the state's oldest and sole grassroots organization of community-based programs, provides services to battered women and their children.

Information Available: Basics regarding domestic violence, documents and reports, domestic violence assault crimes, statistics, justice system's response to domestic violence, news and events, Missouri resources and links.

Missouri Office of the Attorney General
www.ago.mo.gov/publications/domesticviolence.pdf

Description: The Missouri Attorney General's Office, the state's chief legal office, is committed to protecting the safety and welfare of all Missourians. The Office aggressively prosecutes those who break criminal, environmental and consumer protection laws and defends the state against legal actions.

Information Available: A Consumer Guide: Protecting Victims of Domestic Violence (How Missourians can obtain protective court orders, who to call for safe shelters and support services, where shelters are located in Missouri and a phone list of victim advocates by county).

National Organizations:

Family Violence and Sexual Assault Institute (FVSAI)
www.ivatcenters.org

Description: The FVSAI exists as an International resource center and maintains a clearinghouse of categorized references and unpublished papers concerning all aspects of family violence and sexual assault. In addition, the FVSAI, in cooperation with crisis centers, agencies, universities, organizations and clinics, is involved in developing treatment and prevention programs for spouse/partner and child maltreatment.

Information Available: FVSA Bulletin, conferences, trainings and workshops, press releases, training institutes, journals, resources and referrals, policy and legislation, program development evaluations and consultation, a speakers bureau and links.

CAVNET
www.cavnet2.org

Description: CAVNET started as a diverse network of professionals and advocates working in the areas of domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, and rape. CAVNET rapidly grew into an information sharing network that included many new areas, including violence between gay and lesbian partners, violence against persons with disabilities, and school violence among others.

Information Available: Issue directory, events and conferences, searchable CAVNET Knowledge Base, CAVENET reading and video list, resources, newsletter and ability to apply to CAVNET network and listserv.

Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community
www.dvinstitute.org

Description: The Institute's mission is to provide an interdisciplinary vehicle and forum by which scholars, practitioners and observers of family violence in the African American community will have the continual opportunity to articulate their perspectives on family violence through research findings, the examination of service delivery and intervention mechanisms, and the identification of appropriate and effective responses to prevent/reduce family violence in the African American community.

Information Available: Bibliography of resources by topic, hotline numbers, links, newsletters and forums.

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV)
www.ncadv.org

Description: The NCADV has dedicated itself to the empowerment of battered women and their children and therefore maintains a commitment to the elimination of personal and societal violence in the lives of battered women and their children.

Information Available: Background knowledge on domestic violence, community profile and strategy, guidelines for starting a shelter, public policy work and legislative efforts, Voices against Violence project, Remember My Name program, resources and links.

National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (Alianza)
www.dvalianza.org

Description: Allianza (website in both English and Spanish) works to promote understanding, sustain dialogue and generate solutions that move toward the elimination of domestic violence affecting Latino communities, with an understanding of the sacredness of all relations and communities. This organization puts its efforts into the areas of research, training and technical assistance, public policy and community education and development.

Information Available: Alianza reports, handouts, brochures, annotated bibliography, programs and projects, news and events, fact sheets concerning the Latino community and domestic violence, Voices of Survivors and links.