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Domestic Violence Resources
General Domestic Violence Information
For Clients
Why Domestic Violence Victims Don't Leave
"Why does she stay? Why would anyone stay with a man who beats her? I'm
not a psychiatrist, a social worker, or an expert in domestic violence.
I'm just one woman with a story to tell."—Leslie Morgan Steiner
Women’s Law
Provides easy-to-understand legal information and resources to women living with or escaping domestic violence.
Feminist Majority Foundation
This foundation provides a domestic violence information center.
Help Guide
Created in 1999 by the Rotary Club of Santa Monica, provides links to domestic violence education materials.
Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse
MINCAVA operates an electronic clearinghouse with access to more than 3,000 violence-related resources.
Focus on Teens
Love is Not Abuse (Liz Claiborne, Inc.)
This site provides information and tools that men, women, teens and
corporate executives can use to learn more about domestic violence and
how to help. The site also includes information specifically for teens.
For Professionals
Violence Against Women Resources
Violence Against Women Online Resources is a collaborative project
between the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA) and
the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) and provides materials on
domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking for criminal justice
professionals, advocates, and other multi-disciplinary professionals.
American Bar Association, Commission on Domestic Violence
The Commission provides individualized support to attorneys
representing victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking
that includes research assistance, sample practice tools, model
pleadings, and access to experts in the field.
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
NDJFCJ has a dedicated program addressing family violence and provides
cutting-edge training, wide-ranging technical assistance, and research
to help the nation's courts, judges and staff.
Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women
OVW provides online resources on interventions to stop
violence against women for criminal justice practitioners and advocates.
Danger Assessment
This site provides access to the danger assessment, a tool developed to
assess the risk factors and level of danger faced by a battered woman.
Interactive Information Site for Professionals
Batterer Intervention Services Coalition of Michigan
To provide a working forum for interaction and information sharing
among agencies and individuals concerned with the provision of batterer
intervention services in Michigan. The site also includes the Michigan
Batterer Intervention Standards created by the Governor’s Task Force on
Batterer Intervention Standards in 1998.
Domestic Violence Prevention
Family Violence Prevention Fund
For more than two decades, the Family Violence Prevention Fund has
worked to end violence against women and children around the world and
was instrumental in developing the federal Violence Against Women Act.
Legal Assistance for Clients in Domestic Violence
Legal Resource Center on Violence Against Women
The LRC works to obtain legal representation for domestic violence
survivors in interstate custody cases and to provide technical
assistance to domestic violence victim advocates and attorneys in such
cases.