Domestic Violence
- Addressing the Effects of Domestic Violence on Children
Millions of children are exposed to domestic violence each year, and even those who are not themselves abused may be physically harmed when they try to protect parents or are caught in the crossfire.
Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence
The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence offers training and resources for religious and secular communities on prevention of child abuse, sexual and domestic violence.
Children & DV Toolbox
Help protect children by preventing domestic violence. Whether it's advocating for increased funding for intervention and support programs by contacting policymakers or working to build a bridge between advocates and the court system, you can play a vital role in activating others to join the movement to end abuse.
Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence
National nonprofit organization founded by the business community to address domestic violence as a workplace issue.
Domestic Violence - Another Perspective
Menstuff has compiled information, books and resources on the issue of domestic violence. Unlike most other national, regional, local and web site resources on Domestic Violence, we don't exclude information pertaining to women as perpetrators and men as victims.
Domestic Violence and Children
A synthesis of the literature of child exposure to domestic violence, an analysis of service and legal systems responses to the problem, and recommendations for improvements to interventions and research.
Domestic Violence and Children
PDF wheel depicting risks of children who have witnessed domestic violence.
Domestic Violence Awareness Merit Program for Youth
Experts in Santa Clara County have developed an Internet intensive educational program for diverse youth groups. This program is available for you to use or modify for your own group.
Domestic Violence Information and Referral Handbook
Comprehensive information adapted from the handbook From This Day Forward Published by the Santa Clara County Probation Department.
Domestic Violence: An Overview
Effects of Domestic Violence on Children and Teenagers
Domestic Violence: Update for Healthcare Providers
Effects of Domestic Violence on Children
Domestic Violence: Why Women Stay
Domestic violence article, dynamics of spousal abuse, battered women, and more, by N. Faulkner, PhD.
DV Resources
United States DV Resources by State.
dvSurvival Kit
Resource for victims of domestic violence and stalking, their families and their service providers.
Fact Sheet: Domestic Violence and Young Children
Fact sheet about children who witness domestic violence display various emotional, physical, and behavioral disturbances. Their problems are similar to those of physically abused children.
Family Violence Prevention Fund
Nations foremost expert on domestic violence, advocating to improve public policies, including those that support battered immigrant women, working with health care providers and employers to identify and aid victims of abuse, helping communities support children from violent homes, training judges to help all victims of abuse, and showing Americans how to help end domestic violence.
Financial Resources for Women and Children, Inc.
Increasing the safety of women and children and reducing family violence by helping to increase the financial stability and wealth of women and children.
How are children affected by domestic violence?
Extensive list of the effects of domestic violence on children.
Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community
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.
Internet Warning
Education on how an abuser can discover your internet activites.
Law for All
Information dealing with domestic violence.
Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse
The mission of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA) is to support research, education, and access to violence related resources.
National Organization for Women
NOW and the Violence Against Women Act
No One Deserves to be Abused: Children's Issues
Discussion of domestic violence for children.
North Durham Domestic Violence Forum
Provides support and help to those experiencing domestic violence, provides training to frontline workers and raises awareness of domestic violence.
Teen Dating Violence
Article describing teen dating violence.
Teen Relationships Website
If you're looking for someone close to your age to talk to, who really knows their stuff... our chatroom may be the place for you!
The California Safe from the Start Initiative
SFTS Initiative is a comprehensive strategy to assist communities in reducing the impact of violence on children. The initiative targets children ages 0 to 18 with an emphasis on children ages 0 to 5, who have been exposed to family, school and/or community violence.
The Effects of Domestic Violence on Children
Age specific effects of various types of domestic violence on children.
Through Their Eyes
Through Their Eyes showcases children’s varied experiences with and responses to violence. It explains how children may benefit from advocacy-based counseling programs such as the YWCA Children’s Domestic Violence Program. It is also a powerful document about hope - that together, we can and will make change for families affected by domestic violence.
When Children Witness Domestic Violence: Expert Opinion
SUMMARY OF EXPERT TESTIMONY ON THE IMPACT ON CHILDREN OF WITNESSING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. From the Decision of U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein in Nicholson v. Williams, Case #00-CV2229, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
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