Violence/Abuse

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• National Domestic Violence Hotline

  The National Domestic Violence Hotline answers about 10,000 calls each month from those experiencing domestic violence, as well as their family and friends. This organization provides callers with crisis intervention, information about domestic violence and referrals to local programs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in many languages. Advice includes referrals to battered women's shelters and programs, social service agencies, legal programs, and other groups and organizations willing to help.

• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

  The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) is dedicated to the empowerment of battered women and their children and to the elimination of violence in the lives of women and their children. This site offers information on current public policy, explanations of violent behavior including predictors of domestic violence, approximately 25 useful links, products which include books and videos, and advise on how to get help.

• Family Violence Prevention Fund

  In 1989, the agency was incorporated as a private, non-profit organization to expand its prevention activities from a San Francisco based operation to the national level. The FVPF has developed pioneering prevention strategies in the justice, public education, child welfare and health fields. Their publications and programs have been distributed to and replicated in every state and in several foreign countries. This site offers education, personal and workplace safety plans, as well as hotline information to the public.

• Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN)

  The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., operates America's only national hotline for survivors of sexual assault. The hotline 1-800.656.HOPE offers free, confidential counseling and support 24 hours a day, from anywhere in the country. RAINN is provided as a service those who cannot reach a rape crisis center through a local call, as well as those who might not know that a local center exists. Since RAINN was founded in 1994, survivors nationwide finally have access to free, confidential counseling all day, every day.