Advocacy Groups

BreakingFree – dedicated to the many courageous women that lived in abusive relationships and summoned the strength to walk away. BreakingFree offers an array of programs to help empower these women into a new life.

Center on Victimization & Safety, Vera Institute of Justice – works with government and nonprofit organizations to enhance efforts to prevent and address interpersonal violence and related crimes, including domestic violence and sexual assault. The Center specializes in fostering cross-disciplinary collboration and promoting policies and practices that hold abusers accountable and also help survivors heal. By combining staff expertise and skills with the practical knowledge of professionals in the field, it provides technical assistance and guidance that is timely, relevant and reflective of current best practices. The Center's work includes the Accessing Safety, the Supervised Visitation and the Promising Practices initiatives, New York, NY.

Feminist Majority Foundation Domestic Violence Information Center

Idealist.org – Action Without Borders – connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives, New York City, NY; Portland, OR; Washington, DC; and Buenos Aires, AR.

Institute for Community Peace – promotes a safe, healthy and peaceful nation by mobilizing community resources and leadership and supports strategies that emphasize civic empowerment and expanded national attention to the range of factors that contribute to and prevent violence and promote peace, Washington, DC.

Joyful Heart Foundation – heals, educates and empowers survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse and sheds light into the darkness that surrounds these issues, New York, NY.

Lavender Power – is that resilience you have inside to thrive past the abuse of violence & sexual trauma.

Legal Momentum – Violence Against Women – has long been an advocate of women’s right to live free from violence. As the chair of the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, Legal Momentum was a proud leader of the original push to pass the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 1994, as well as VAWA II in 2000, which strengthened the law and reauthorized it through 2005, New York, NY.

Metta Knowledge for Peace – serving organizations, people, and animals working worldwide on the front lines to alleviate the problems of violence and to foster peace.

National Center for Victims of Crime – is the nation’s leading resource and advocacy organization for crime victims.  Since 1985, we have worked with more than 10,000 grassroots organizations and criminal justice agencies serving millions of crime victims. The mission of the NCVC is to forge a national commitment to help victims of crime rebuild their lives. We are dedicated to serving individuals, families and communities harmed by crime, Washington, DC.

National Coalition Against Violent Athletes – educating the public on a variety of issues regarding athletes and violent behavior, while also providing support to the victims, including but not limited to, advocacy, referrals, and research, Littleton, CO.

Peace at Home – a human rights agency dedicated to stopping domestic violence. We heighten the public awareness about the national emergency of domestic violence. We also organize community response and involvement. Our programs and social change initiatives embrace the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a standard for human interaction in our society. We believe that, given the tools and information, everyone can play a role in helping to stop domestic violence, Somerville, MA.

Peace Over Violence (formerly called Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women, or LACAAW) – a non-profit, feminist, multicultural, volunteer organization dedicated to building healthy relationships, families and communities free from sexual, domestic and interpersonal violence. To achieve this mission our agency manages five departments delivering the services of Emergency, Intervention, Prevention, Education and Advocacy, Los Angeles, CA.

Principle Voices – a non-profit education and advocacy organization. Our mission is to (1) educate others about polygamous families and their culture, to (2) encourage empowerment of individuals and families from the polygamous culture to secure themselves equal representation, decriminalization, and civil rights, and to (3) provide crisis response to those in our culture,Salt Lake City, UT.

Sheila Wellstone Institute – Sheila Wellstone was a national champion in the effot to end domestic violence in our communities.  The Sheila Wellstone Institute continues her commitment to building power and visibility to ensure that ending violence against women and children is a national priority, St. Paul, MN.

Transforming Communities– creating safety and justice for women and girls, San Rafael, CA.

V-Day – a global movement to stop violence against women and girls.

Violence Against Women, National Women's Health Information Center, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

Violence Against Women, Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

Week without Violence, YWCA USA – a nationwide campaign that highlights practical, sustainable alternatives to end violence. It has become a global campaign involving women, men and children in hundreds of communities in the United States and in countries around the world, Washington, DC.

Wellstone Action! – a national center for training and leadership development for the progressive movement. Founded in January 2003, Wellstone Action's mission is to honor the legacy of Paul and Sheila Wellsone by continuing their work through training, educating, mobilizing and organizing a vast network of progressive individuals and organizations, St. Paul, MN.

WomensLaw.org – provides contact information for orgazniations (by state) that can help support you if you have been in an abusive relationship, or are seeking help after or to prevent sexual assault, Brooklyn, NY.

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