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Domestic Violence
Knowledge Path

Introduction

This knowledge path has been compiled by the MCH Library at Georgetown University. It presents a selection of current, high-quality resources about identifying and responding to domestic violence within the home and the community. A separate section lists resources for families. Other sections present resources about children exposed to domestic violence; dating violence among adolescents; and violence between gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender partners. This knowledge path is aimed at health professionals, program administrators, policymakers, advocates, researchers, employers, and victims of abuse and their families. This path will be updated periodically.

Please note: Current literature about domestic violence uses a variety of terms including "domestic violence," "intimate partner violence," "spouse abuse," "battering," and "dating violence." The terminology used in this knowledge path follows the usage of the source being described.

Resources for Professionals

Overview

See Understanding intimate partner violence (2006) by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This fact sheet documents the occurrence of intimate partner violence; briefly describes its physical, psychological, social, and economic consequences; and outlines prevention strategies.

Websites

  • American Bar Association (ABA): Commission on Domestic Violence. Contains resources for attorneys, health professionals, and others concerned about domestic violence and safety planning. Resources include policy statements, training information, consumer-education materials, and charts that summarize statutes from all 50 states regarding domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, dating violence, and human trafficking. ABA's initiatives include the National Teen Dating Violence Prevention Initiative and the Legal Assistance for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Victims of Domestic Violence.

  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Violence Against Women. Contains resources for health professionals about domestic violence and sexual assault that include patient-education materials, screening tools, and contact information for state coalitions.

  • Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence. Offers reports, directories, translated materials, statistics, and other resources about domestic violence in Asian and Pacific Islander communities. The institute comprises a national network that works to raise awareness, expand leadership and expertise, and promote culturally relevant resources in Asian and Pacific Islander communities about domestic violence.

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Offers programs and initiatives about domestic violence that include

    CDC's Division of Reproductive Health: Violence and Reproductive Health. Provides background information and links to research related to violence that is associated with pregnancy-related illness, injury, and death. Includes a screen show lecture presentation.

    CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC): Intimate Partner Violence Prevention. Contains scientific and program information about intimate partner violence. Presents definitions, data sources, risk and protective factors, consequences, prevention strategies, and strategies for distributing prevention information and ensuring widespread adoption of prevention principles and strategies within communities.

    Also see CDC's adolescent-dating-violence-prevention initiative, Choose Respect.

  • Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence (CAEPV). Offers fact sheets, statistics, and articles about partner violence and about reducing the costs and consequences of partner violence at work. Describes corporate programs and policies that set the standard for how companies can handle this sensitive issue. CAEPV is an alliance of companies dedicated to the prevention of domestic violence by leveraging the strength and resources of the corporate community.

  • Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF). Contains a wealth of resources about domestic violence for health professionals, policymakers, employers, advocates, the legal community, and victims of abuse. FVPF educates and advocates nationally and internationally to prevent violence within the home and in the community and to help those whose lives are devastated by abuse. Programs focus on children, health, immigrant women, international trafficking of women and girls, judicial education, public education, public policy, adolescent dating violence, and workplace issues. Resources include fact sheets, reports, training materials, assessment tools, public-education materials, legislative news, and an electronic journal. Initiatives include

    kNOwMORE. Presents information about this initiative to create a dialogue among health professionals, policymakers, and young women about the reproductive health consequences of sexual coercion and violence. Includes fact sheets and resources to assist health professionals in identifying and helping clients in need. Also features a blog and space for women who have experienced abuse to share their stories.

    Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Gender-Based Violence. Offers training materials, case studies, fact sheets, and community-building tools for working with males to prevent gender-based violence.

  • Greenbook Initiative. Presents program information, tools, and resources about effective intervention in domestic violence and child maltreatment cases. Includes recommendations for child welfare agencies, domestic violence service providers, and family courts for improving policies and practices and enhancing coordination to better serve families in need.

  • Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community. Presents program information and publications about domestic violence among African Americans.

  • Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA). Contains information about and links to domestic violence resources including curricula, published research, funding sources, training tools, experts and organizations, and multimedia resources. Topics include child exposure to domestic violence, adolescent dating violence, violence against women with disabilities, domestic violence in the military, domestic violence in racial and ethnic communities, and same-sex domestic violence. MINCAVA is located at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work.

  • National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC). Includes program information and resources, such as statistics, reports, bibliographies, and outreach materials on topics that include violence against women, dating violence, stalking, and parallel justice for victims of crime. NCVC serves victims of all types of crime with resources and a toll-free hotline. NCVC also provides public policy advocacy, training, and technical assistance to victim-service organizations, counselors, attorneys, criminal justice agencies, and service providers.

  • National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence (NCDSV). Provides training information and a resource library of reports and articles to encourage collaboration among professionals working to end domestic and sexual violence. Topics include domestic violence involving military personnel. NCDSV is a national organization helping a myriad of professionals in the criminal justice, legal, health, education, military, and social work communities who work with victims and perpetrators.

  • National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL). Contains fact sheets, articles, resource lists, and other publications about domestic violence in later life. NCALL is hosted by the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

  • National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV). Provides domestic-violence-related resources for advocates and victims of abuse on topics such as reproductive health and pregnancy, children and custody, and women with disabilities who experience domestic violence. Includes a state coalition list and domestic violence facts by state. NCADV is a national membership organization of individuals and grassroots organizations.

  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS): Domestic Violence. Contains links to facts, statistics, conference information, and publications about domestic violence. Also see the NCJRS Abstracts Database. NCJRS is a federally funded resource focusing on crime- and justice-related research, policy, and practice.

  • National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (Alianza). Offers reports, brochures, fact sheets, and resource lists in English and Spanish about domestic violence affecting Latino communities. Alianza represents a national network of Latina and Latino advocates, service providers, researchers, community activists, and survivors of domestic violence.

  • National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV). Includes federal legal and legislative news and information, program descriptions, state domestic violence coalition contact information, and other resources. NNEDV advocates for domestic violence victims and support programs in Congress, the executive branch, and federal courts. Initiatives include

    National Safe & Strategic Technology Project (Safety Net). Presents tools and information to educate victims of domestic and sexual violence, their advocates, and the general public on strategic ways to use technology to help victims escape abusive relationships. Safety Net also trains police officers and prosecutors on how to identify and hold perpetrators accountable for misusing technology.

  • National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women (VAWnet). Presents an electronic library of resources to support domestic-violence prevention, education, intervention, and public policy. Topics include adolescent dating violence. VAWnet is a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Subscribe to the VAWnet electronic newsletter.

  • Nursing Network on Violence Against Women, International (NNVAWI). Contains abuse-assessment tools and research information about violence against women. NNVAWI aims to eliminate violence by advancing nursing education, practice, research, and public policy.

  • Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). Contains grant and program information, information about federal legislation, and other resources to raise awareness and support training and services that respond to incidents of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. OVW is part of the Department of Justice. Resources and initiatives include

    National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women. Presents information and reports about this joint effort between the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to address the crimes of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.

  • Online Domestic Violence Training Program. Offers nine online training units intended to provide social workers with basic knowledge about domestic violence. Each unit is followed by a quiz. Also included are a manual, a bibliography, and guidelines for finding a counselor. This program is offered by the Simmons College School of Social Work.

Additional Electronic Publications

Databases

See the following set of MCH Library resource briefs to identify additional data and statistics, literature and research, and programs about domestic violence.

Electronic Newsletters

Resources for Victims and Families

Children Exposed to Domestic Violence

Dating Violence Among Adolescents

Violence Between Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Partners

Domestic Violence: Knowledge Path, 3rd ed. (October 2008). (Updated: February 2012).
Author: Susan Brune Lorenzo, M.L.S., MCH Library.
Reviewers: Anna Marjavi, Family Violence Prevention Fund; Olivia K. Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Library; LCDR Morrisa B. Rice, M.H.A., HRSA Office of Women's Health.
Editor: Ruth Barzel, M.A., MCH Library.

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