Ending Domestic Violence Creating Social Change
Local Resources
Peaceful Paths Domestic Abuse
Network
--The certified domestic violence center serving Alachua, Bradford,
and Union counties.
Alachua
County Office of Victim Services & Rape Crisis Center
-- The Alachua County Victim Services & Rape Crisis Center
provides services to survivors of interpersonal violence, sexual violence
and personal injury crimes.
University of
Florida Office of Victim Services
-- The Office of Victim Services was developed in September of 1993
by the University of Florida Police Department in an effort to provide
a civilian support person for anyone who may become a victim of crime
while on the University of Florida campus. A victim advocate is available
24-hours a day, seven days a week to provide support for victims of
actual or threatened violence. All services are free and confidential.
Intimate Partner Violence
Peaceful Paths Domestic Abuse Network
--The certified domestic violence center that
serves Alachua, Bradford, and Union counties
National Coalition Against
Domestic Violence
Florida Coalition Against Domestic
Violence
Institute on DV in the African
American Community
Important Stages of the Battered Women's Movement
--A timeline from the early 1970s to the present
Duluth Model
--A leader in the movement
VAWnet
--National online resource center on violence against women
Domestic Violence and the
Law
--State-by-state legal information and resources for domestic violence.
LGBT Intimate Partner Violence
Community United Against Violence
-- Community United Against Violence (CUAV) is a multicultural organization
working to end violence against and within our lesbian, gay, bisexual,
trans gender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) communities.
Project Rainbow
Net
-- The PRN mission is: To end domestic violence in the LGBT community,
and to create an open and accepting society which embraces the diversity
within NC, through education, advocacy, and support.
FORGE
-- In 2004, FORGE received a small grant from the Greater Milwaukee
Foundation to undertake a project to understand more about how sexual
violence affects trans gender persons, and develop some beginning resources.
Gay Men's Domestic Violence
Project
--The Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project is a grassroots, non-profit
organization providing community education and direct services for clients.
GMDVP offers shelter, guidance, and resources to allow gay, bisexual,
and trans gender men in crisis to remove themselves from violent situations
and relationships.
The Network La Red
-- Ending abuse in lesbian, bisexual women's and transgender communities.
The New York City Gay & Lesbian
Anti-Violence Project
--Releases an annual domestic violence report
Dating
violence in same sex relationships
--Resource list
Northwest
Network
--For Bi, Lesbian, and Gay survivors of abuse
Survivor Project
--For Intersex and Transgender survivors of abuse
FIERCE!
--Building the leadership and power of lgbtq youth of color
Teen Dating Violence
Break the Cycle
-- Break the Cycle engages, educates and empowers youth to build lives
and communities free from dating and domestic violence.
See
it and Stop it
-- This site has it all: Statistics, exercises and free toolkits that
includes posters and videos.
The Date
Safe Project
-- Provides strong and positive voices for discussing sexual assault
awareness, healthy dating, and specifically addressing consent.
Project Respect
--Project Respect is a prevention program for youth ages
14 to 19 that aims to stop sexual violence, particularly acquaintance
assault. “Date Rape, as it is commonly referred to, is a serious
risk for youth.
National Youth
Violence Prevention Resource Center
-- Teen fact sheet gives you the information you need to prevent or
deal with difficult situations involving bullying, dating violence,
depression, gangs, and other kinds of violence among young people. Each
fact sheet can be printed out, and includes links to other helpful Web
sites.
A
Parent's Guide to Teen Dating Violence
A handbook with 10 questions to start a talk with your teen about dating
violence.
Stop Youth
Violence
-- The National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center is a “one-stop
shop” for information on youth violence prevention, sponsored
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other Federal
agencies.
Teen Relationships
-- A resource for teens who are dating.
Teen
Health
-- A place for teens to go with questions about health, sex and drugs.
Dating Violence
and the Law
-- Legal Information on Teen Dating Violence.
Music about
empowering teen relationships
--Music that teaches how to be in an empowering teen relationship.
Teens stop violence
--A Web site for teens addressing topics about sexual abuse and dating.
New Beginnings
-- A dating violence site to help teens.
Choose
Respect
--Choose Respect is an initiative to help adolescents form healthy relationships
to prevent dating abuse before it starts. This national effort is designed
to motivate adolescents to challenge harmful beliefs about dating abuse
and take steps to form respectful relationships.
Love is Respect
--National teen dating abuse hotline
T.E.A.R.
--Teens experiencing abusive relationships
Love is Not Abuse
--Information and tools that men, women, teens, children, and corporate
executives can use to learn more.
Sexual Violence
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network
-- The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network is the nation's largest
anti-sexual assault organization. RAINN operates the National Sexual
Assault Hotline and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault,
help victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.
A Long Walk
Home
-- A Long Walk Home, Inc. is a non-profit organization that uses art
therapy and the visual and performance arts to document, to educate
and to bring about social change. We use the testimonies, poetry, music,
photographs, and videos of and by women and children to provide safe
and entertaining forums through which the public learns about healing
from trauma.
Sexual
Violence Prevention Materials
-- Information and ad campaigns from the state of Florida. Posters,
brochures, audio and video materials.
No! The Rape Documentary
--A powerful documentary about rape in the African American community--includes
study guide materials.