Intimate partner violence
Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month
Teen Dating Violence Prevention and Awareness Month is a national effort to raise awareness about abuse in teen and 20-something relationships and promote programs that prevent it during the month of February. This site provides access to resources to raise awareness during this annual commemoration.
Loveisrespect.org
This initiative promotes awareness of healthy dating relationships by making vital resources accessible to help teens experiencing dating violence and offering tips on preventing abusive relationships. The Loveisrespect.org helpline provides 24/7 phone, text and chat services to victims of dating violence; service providers and allied professionals; and concerned parents, friends and other members of the community.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Dating Matters Initiative
Dating Matters 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.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey
The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey provides data on sexual assault, physical violence, and stalking by an intimate partner in the United States. The survey also includes the rates of health and mental health problems associated with victimization.
Lifecourse Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence and Help-Seeking among Filipina, Indian, and Pakistani Women: Implications for Justice System Responses
National Institute of Justice: Teen Dating Violence
This section of the National Institute of Justice website provides research and other information on teen dating violence, including articles and publications.
Building off a long history of research in the area of intimate partner violence, the National Institute of Justice is now looking to relationships during adolescence to understand the factors that put individuals at risk for involvement in abusive romantic relationships as adults.
Victim Participation in Intimate Partner Violence Prosecution: Implications for Safety
Kentucky Civil Protective Order Study: A Rural and Urban Multiple Perspective Study of Protective Order Violation Consequences, Responses, and Costs
Study of the Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on the Workplace
Workplaces Respond to Domestic & Sexual Violence: A National Resource Center
This virtual resource center, sponsored by the Office on Violence Against Women, was developed for employers to address the impacts of domestic, sexual harassment or violence, and stalking. in the workplace. This website provides information, resources, tools, and technical assistance to employers and labor organizations to facilitate and encourage safer and more effective responses to employees who are victims.
Community United Against Violence
Community United Against Violence offers violence prevention services (particularly for hate and domestic violence) to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
Legislationline
Legislationline is an online resource, information, and documentation center dealing with the rule of law and the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. The service, provided by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Co-operation, contains information on such topics as violence against women and human trafficking.