American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence
740 15th Street, NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC, 20005-1022
Phone: 202-262-1000
Website: http://www.abanet.org/domviol/home.html
The American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence website provides information about a wide-range of domestic violence issues and extensive links to other resources and organizations. The website includes listings of ABA policies, training materials, legal briefs, and sample legal forms relevant to domestic violence issues and proceedings.


Asian Task Force against Domestic Violence
P.O. Box 120108, Boston, MA 02112
Hotline: 617.338.2355 / Tel: 617.338.2350
Fax: 617.338.2354
E-mail: asiandv@atask.org
Website: http://www.atask.org
Based in Boston, the mission of the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence is to eliminate family violence and to strengthen Asian families and communities. Many of their brochures are available in Hindi, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, and Vietnamese.


AYUDA, Inc.
1707 Kalorama Road, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: (202) 387-4848
Website: http://www.ayudainc.org
A Washington, D.C. organization, is Washington, D.C.’s leading source of multi-lingual legal and social assistance for low-income Latinos and foreign-born persons in immigration, human trafficking, domestic violence, and family law.


Break the Cycle
5200 W. Century Blvd., Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Tel: 310-286-3366
Fax: 310-286-3386
Website: www.breakthecycle.org
With offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., Break the Cycle is a national nonprofit organization that engages, educates, and empowers youth to build lives and communities free from dating and domestic violence. Break the Cycle provides youth with preventive education, free legal services and information and peer leadership opportunities. Founded in 1996, Break the Cycle serves as a national resource and advocate on the issue of teen dating violence. Through innovative partnerships with schools, universities, social service providers, law enforcement, community groups, law firms, and corporations, Break the Cycle provides youth with tools to break the cycle of dating and domestic violence.

Battered Women's Justice Project
The Battered Women's Justice Project is a collaboration of three nationally-recognized organizations. BWJP has three offices: the Criminal Justice Office (coordinated by Minnesota Program Development, Inc.), the Civil Justice Office (coordinated by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence) and the Defense Office (coordinated by the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women). While all three offices provide training, technical assistance, and other resources on domestic violence related to civil court access and representation, criminal justice response and battered women's self-defense issues, each office has expertise and resources for their specific subject area. BWJP does not take on individual cases.


BWJP Criminal Justice Office
The Criminal Justice Center
2104 Fourth Avenue South, Suite B
Minneapolis, MN 55404   
Email: technicalassistance@bwjp.org
Phone: (800) 903-0111, ext. 1  (toll free)
Phone: (612) 824-8768 Fax: (612) 824-8965
Website: www.bwjp.org
BWJP's Criminal Justice Office offers training, technical assistance, and consultation on the most promising practices of the criminal justice system in addressing domestic violence. Criminal Justice staff can provide information and analyses on effective policing, prosecuting, sentencing, and monitoring of domestic violence offenders.


BWJP Civil Justice Office
1601 Connecticut Avenue NW
Suite 500
Washington DC 20009
Phone: (800) 903-0111, ext. 1 (toll free)
Phone: (202) 265-0967, ext. 130
The BWJP Civil Office provides important leadership aimed at enhancing justice for battered women and their children in the civil legal arena by improving battered women's access to civil justice options and quality legal representation in civil court processes. This office typically provides technical assistance on such issues as: protection orders; separation violence; divorce and support; custody; mediation; confidentiality of shelter records and lay advocate testimony; safety planning; and welfare and the Violence Against Women Act.

BWJP Defense Office
125 S. 9th Street
Suite 302
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: (800) 903-0111, ext. 3  (toll free)
Phone: (215) 351-0010
Fax: (215) 351-0779
Through the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women, the BWJP Defense Office is a resource and advocacy center for battered women charged with crimes related to their battering.


Center for Women Policy Studies
1776 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Suite 450
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: (202) 872-1770
Fax: (202) 296-8962
Email: cwps@centerwomenpolicy.org
Website: www.centerwomenpolicy.org
The Center for Women Policy Studies was founded in 1972 as the nation’s first feminist policy analysis, research and advocacy institution. Their mission today is what it was then—to shape public policy to improve women’s lives.


Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Dr. Janice Raymond, Co-Executive Director
Professor, University of Massachusetts
PO Box 7427, JAF Station
New York NY 10116 fax: 212-643-9896
Email: info@catwinternational.org
Website: http://www.catwinternational.org
A global feminist organization dedicated to ending all forms of sexual violence and sexual exploitation. This website contains information about, and links to, organizations throughout the world that are working against violence against women.



Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence
2416 East Washington Street, Suite E
Bloomington, IL 61704
Tel: (309) 664-0667
Fax: (309) 664-0747
Email: caepv@caepv.org
Website: www.caepv.org
The Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing the costs and consequences of partner violence at work–and eliminating it altogether. From policies and programs to legal issues and legislation, CAEPV is a source for information, materials and advice.


Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women
Website: http://www.usdoj.gov/ovw
800 K Street, N.W.
Suite 920
Washington, DC 20530
(202) 307-6026 phone
(202) 307-3911 fax
(202) 307-2277 TTY
The mission of the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) is to provide federal leadership to reduce violence against women, and to administer justice for and strengthen services to all victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. This is accomplished by developing and supporting the capacity of state, local, tribal, and non-profit entities involved in responding to violence against women.


Equality Now
P.O. Box 20646
Columbus Circle Station
New York, NY 10023
Fax: (212) 586-1611
Website: http://www.equalitynow.org
Email: info@equalitynow.org
An international human rights organization working on violence and discrimination against women. Working with national human rights organizations and individual activists, Equality Now documents violence and discrimination against women and adds an international action overlay to support their efforts to advance equality rights and defend individual women who are suffering abuse. Through its Women's Action Network, Equality Now distributes information about these human rights violations to concerned groups and individuals around the world, along with recommended actions for publicizing and protesting them. The Women's Action Network is committed to voicing a worldwide call for justice and equality for women. Issues of urgent concern to Equality Now include rape, domestic violence, reproductive rights, trafficking of women, female genital mutilation, and equal access to economic opportunity and political participation.


FaithTrust Institute
2400 North 45th Street #10
Seattle, WA 98103
Tel: (206) 634-1903
Fax: (206) 634-0115
Email: info@faithtrustinstitute.org
Web site: http://www.faithtrustinstitute.org
FaithTrust Institute, formerly the Center for Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence, is an international, multifaith organization that offers a wide range of services and resources, including training, consultation and educational materials, to provide communities and advocates with the tools and knowledge they need to address religious and cultural issues related to abuse.


Family Violence Prevention Fund
383 Rhode Island Street, Suite 304
San Francisco, CA 94103- 5113
Tel: (415) 252-8900
Fax: (415) 252-8991
Email: info@endabuse.org
Web site: www.endabuse.org
The Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) works out of offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Boston, to prevent violence within the home, and in the community, to help those whose lives are devastated by violence because everyone has the right to live free of violence.


Generation Five
3288 21st Street #171
San Francisco, CA 94110
Tel: 861-6658
Fax: 415-861-6659
Email: info@generationfive.org
Website: www.generationfive.org
The mission of Generation Five is to end the sexual abuse of children within five generations. Through survivor leadership, community organizing, and public action, Generation Five works to interrupt and mend the intergenerational impact of child sexual abuse on individuals, families and communities. Rather than perpetuate the isolation of this issue, Generation Five integrates child sexual abuse prevention into social movements targeting family violence, economic oppression, and gender and cultural discrimination. Generation Five collaborates with other organizations to ensure that accessible, culturally relevant services are available to both survivors of child sexual assault and offenders.


Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault
100 North 16th Street
Springfield, IL 62703
Phone: (217) 753-4117
Fax: (217) 753-8229
email: sblack@icasa.org
website: www.icasa.org
The purpose of the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault is two-fold: to end sexual assault violence and to alleviate the suffering of sexual assault victims. To accomplish these goals, ICASA advocates for public policy that prevents sexual violence and guarantees sensitivity to victims. ICASA uses the power of public education to change societal attitudes about the causes and consequences of sexual violence. ICASA assists with healing from the trauma of sexual violence through creation and support of community programs that provide advocacy, counseling and education. ICASA has extensive experience creating and supporting the passage of legislation to assist in the fight against sexual assault. The ICASA website is an excellent resource for information about sexual assault resources in every state in the US. and maintains an excellent set of links to sexual assault coalitions in every state.


Men Can Stop Rape
PO Box 57144
Washington, DC 20037
Tel: (202) 265-6530
Fax: (202) 265-4362
Email: info@mencanstoprape.org
Website: www.mencanstoprape.org
Men Can Stop Rape mobilizes male youth to prevent men’s violence against women. Their mission is to build young men’s capacity to challenge harmful aspects of traditional masculinity, to value alternative visions of male strength and to embrace their vital role as allies with women and girls in fostering healthy relationships and gender equality.