Act Against Violence Outreach Campaign
http://idahoptv.org/outreach/acts/
Act Against Violence is a multi-year, solutions-based public television outreach effort which combines programming, print materials, and community events to help reduce youth violence.

Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime and Victims Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvict.htm
Information, statistics, and publications about criminal victimization in the United States and related data collections.

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/
The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) was founded in 1992 with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to provide informed assistance to groups committed to understanding and preventing violence, particularly adolescent violence.

Child Abuse Prevention Network
http://child-abuse.com/
This site is dedicated to using the World Wide Web to give child abuse prevention professionals the fullest possible support in their work. A seemingly inexhaustible reference of links for professionals.

Community United Against Violence
http://www.xq.com/cuav/
CUAV is a 15-year-old nonprofit agency that addresses and prevents hate violence directed at lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered -persons.

Domestic Violence Handbook
http://www.domesticviolence.org/
This online resource is designed to assist women who are experiencing domestic abuse.

Domestic Violence Hotlines
http://www.feminist.org/911/crisis.html
Links to telephone, postal, and electronic addresses for domestic violence hotlines across the country.

The Family Peace Project
http://www.family.mcw.edu/FamilyPeaceProject.htm
The Family Peace Project provides education, training and consultation to citizens, health care professionals, organizations and communities. Staff for the Project consists of psychologists and community activists who believe that citizens can improve their communities by using the power of individual responsibility, civic action and the democratic process to engage the strengths and resources of our local communities and create local solutions.

Family Violence Prevention Fund
http://endabuse.org
Endabuse is a national nonprofit organization that focuses on domestic violence education, prevention and public policy reform. The site provides a host of links to domestic violence sites, allied organizations, and other resources.

Guggenheim Foundation Research on Violence and Aggression
http://www.hfg.org/
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year. The HFG Review of research is published on a semi-annual basis.

GUNFREE
http://www.gunfree.org/
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence was founded to combat the growing gun violence problem in the United States. CSGV is a unique coalition of more than forty religious, professional, labor, medical, educational and civic organizations.

The Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/php/VPP/hyvpc.html
The Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center (HYVPC) is an innovative, multi-disciplinary center based at the Harvard School of Public Health. The Center's theme is "Research Partnerships with Communities." Center activities are based upon the premise that effective prevention evolves from mutually respectful, reciprocal relationships between researchers, community members, and policy makers.

Mapping Policies and Actions
http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/freda/reports/pol.htm
This site presents an annotated bibliography about violence against women. The material in this bibliography is organized into subject areas. The broad subject areas include; criminal justice, civil/family law, health, economic/social welfare, housing, education/curriculum, community-based programs and services and literature reviews.

Minnesota Higher Education Center Against Violence and Abuse
http://www.mincava.umn.edu/
The goal of the Clearinghouse is to provide a quick and user-friendly access point to the extensive electronic resources on the topic of violence and abuse available through the Internet. It offers access to thousands of Gopher servers, interactive discussion groups, newsgroups and Web sites around the world.

The National Center for Victims of Crime
http://www.ncvc.org/
The National Center for Victims of Crime provides assistance to victims of crime and providers of assistance to victims of crime.

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
http://www.webmerchants.com/ncadv/
NCADV is a grassroots nonprofit membership organization working since 1978 to end violence in the lives of women and children. They provide a national network for state coalitions and local programs serving battered women and their children, public policy at the national level, technical assistance, community awareness campaigns, general information and referrals, and publications on the issue of domestic violence, sponsor of a national conference every two years for battered women and their advocates.

National Consortium on Violence Research
http://www.ncovr.org/
NCOVR has been created as a research and training center devoted to studying the factors contributing to inter-personal violence. The NCOVR World Wide Web site is served by the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

National Network of Violence Prevention Practitioners
http://www2.edc.org/nvpp/
The NNVPP specializes in the preparation and distribution of curricula that synthesize violence prevention information, as well as providing specialized training and technical assistance to practitioners nationwide.

NOW and Violence Against Women
http://now.org/issues/violence
Information from the National Organization for Women about violence against women.

Pacific Center for Violence Prevention
http://www.pcvp.org/
The Pacific Center for Violence Prevention, a project of the Trauma Foundation, works to prevent youth violence in California. Located at San Francisco General Hospital, the Center serves as the policy headquarters for the Violence Prevention Initiative funded by The California Wellness Foundation.

Partnerships Against Violence Network
http://pavnet.org/
PAVNET Online is a "virtual library" of information about violence and youth-at-risk, representing data from seven different federal agencies. It considers itself a "one-stop", searchable, information resource to help reduce redundancy in information management and provide clear and comprehensive access to information for states and local communities.

Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network
http://www.rainn.org/
RAINN is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that operates a national toll-free hotline for victims of sexual assault.

SafetyNet Domestic Violence Resources
http://www.cybergrrl.com/views/dv/
A compendium of a wide range of information related to the issue of domestic violence.

The Silent Witness National Initiative
http://www.silentwitness.net/
In 1990, an ad hoc group of women artists and writers, upset about the growing number of women in Minnesota being murdered by their partners or acquaintances, joined together with several other women's organizations to form Arts Action Against Domestic Violence, which has as its goal the promotion of successful community-based domestic violence reduction efforts in order to reach zero domestic murders by 2010.

Violence Against Women and Sexual Harassment
http://www.feminist.com/violence/
Anti-Violence Resources at Feminist.com.

Violence and Abuse in Couples Project
http://www.ackerman.org/violence.htm
This project has as its goal the development of a feminist-informed, morally explicit systemic conjoint treatment model to end violence by men toward their female partners.

Women, Co-Occurring Disorders & Violence Study
http://www.prainc.com/wcdvs/
The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and the Center for Mental Health Services, acknowledging the impact of violence and the role of physical and sexual abuse in the lives of women with serious mental illnesses, have responded by collaborating on the development and administration of this new study. This research is looking at women with alcohol, drug abuse and mental health disorders who have histories of violence. Knowledge that is gained from this multi-site, multi-center study is expected to be useful in advancing national, state and local policy that affects how the various service systems respond to women with co-occurring disorders who have histories of violence, and their children.

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