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This page provides the most commonly asked questions about domestic violence.... Details >

Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence  

About the Administration for Children and Families' (ACF) responsibilities and activities regarding domestic violence. The article cites domestic violence as the leading cause of injury to women in t... Details >

Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Physical and sexual violence against women is a public health problem of epidemic proportions. More than 3 million U.S. women are known to be battered by their former or current partners annually. Inc... Details >

Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This fact sheet provides background information on dating and domestic violence, including behaviors used by the batterer to gain power and control and behavioral signs displayed by someone involved i... Details >

Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network  

The Hotline strives to educate the public about the need for Deaf, Deaf-Blind and Hard of Hearing abuse outreach programs. The toll-free TTY number, 1-800-787-3224, assist individuals with programs an... Details >

National Domestic Violence Hotline  

The Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence has compiled a directory of Asian and Pacific Islander domestic violence agencies and programs in the U.S. ... Details >

Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence  

This page provides basic information about domestic violence, discusses statistics and risk factors, and reviews intervention approaches and literature resources. The page also links to relevant websi... Details >

National Center for Children Exposed to Violence  

This fact sheet presents a general overview of domestic violence , and provides information about the role of emergency physicians in assisting victims. ... Details >

American College of Emergency Physicians  

A current online listing of domestic violence offices by state. Includes mailing address and phone numbers.... Details >

U.S. Department of Justice

Also available in: Spanish   

Domestic violence, which affects women of all ages and from all countries, is a type of abuse that takes many different forms.... Details >

Healthy Roads Media   

Also available in: Spanish   

Domestic violence, which affects women of all ages and from all countries, is a type of abuse that takes many different forms.... Details >

Healthy Roads Media   

Also available in: Spanish   

Domestic violence, which affects women of all ages and from all countries, is a type of abuse that takes many different forms.... Details >

Healthy Roads Media   

American Indian women are victimized by intimate partners at a higher rate than other demographic groups... Details >

Administration for Native Americans, Administration for Children and Families/HHS

This page provides various links related to Domestic Violence in general.... Details >

Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community  

Domestic violence in Asian and Pacific Islander communities has some different patterns, forms and dynamics of abuse.... Details >

Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence  

This document presents information about domestic violence, including a definition and an overview. The document discusses dynamics of domestic violence, reactions of domestic violence victims, and pe... Details >

National Center for Victims of Crime  

the Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative (NAHMI) promotes culturally competent strategies to strengthen Native American families and communities by fostering healthy marriages, responsible fath... Details >

Administration for Native Americans, Administration for Children and Families/HHS

This article discusses the plight of immigrant women in violent relationships and the objectives of the Family Violence Prevention Fund's (FVPF) Battered Immigrant Women's Rights Project, founded in 1... Details >

Family Violence Prevention Fund  

This fact sheet provides background and statistics on intimate partner violence and its incidence/prevalence, risk and protective factors, and intervention/prevention.... Details >

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This page provides links to intimate partner violence resources related to domestic violence, sexual violence, and incest. Resources include nonprofit organizations, resource centers, and toll-free he... Details >

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Although one cannot control an abuser's violence, one has a choice about how to respond and how to get to safety. This plan provides victims of domestic violence with steps to increase their safety an... Details >

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence  

Also available in: Spanish   

The National Domestic Violence Hotline offers crisis intervention, safety planning, information and referrals to agencies in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Assistance is avail... Details >

National Domestic Violence Hotline  

This brochure provides a brief description of the Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative (NAHMI) including goals, targeted strategy, funding opportunities, and training and technical assistance r... Details >

Administration for Native Americans, Administration for Children and Families/HHS

Identity theft is rampant in the United States. Survivors of domestic violence must take extra precautions to protect themselves from abusers who use identity as a means of power and control. This bro... Details >

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence  

This publication discusses sexual assault, including types and what to do if you have been sexually assaulted.... Details >

Center for the Pacific Asian Family   

This page provides links to sexual violence resources related to rape, incest, and domestic violence. Resources include nonprofit organizations, resource centers, and toll-free helplines that offer in... Details >

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This site provides a list of behaviors that are seen in people who physically abuse another person.... Details >

Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence  

This page provides a list of state Coalition Against Domestic Violence organizations with contact information.... Details >

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence  

Also available in: Spanish 

This directory lists the toll-free phone numbers maintained by various crisis organizations. Numbers and a list of who the organization helps are included for organizations that deal with child abuse,... Details >

Child Welfare Information Gateway

This site presents an initiative of the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence, the ASAP program offers services in several Asian languages, such as 24 hour confidential, multilingual hotline 90 d... Details >

Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence  

The trauma of victimization is a direct reaction to the aftermath of crime. When victims do not receive the appropriate support and intervention in the aftermath of the crime, they suffer "secondary"... Details >

National Center for Victims of Crime  

This web site offers information and resources to women concerning domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and elder abuse. Users can link to publications on violence for consume... Details >

National Women's Health Information Center, Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This brief fact sheets outlines the effects of violence against minority women.... Details >

National Women's Health Information Center, Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This fact sheet is a backgrounder on domestic violence, a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. The fact sheet discusses ... Details >

National Domestic Violence Hotline