API-GBV is proud to be part of the Domestic Violence Resource Network (DVRN), a Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) -funded network of resource centers that inform and strengthen domestic violence intervention and prevention efforts at the individual, community, and societal levels. DVRN member organizations work collaboratively to promote practices and strategies to improve our nation’s response to domestic violence and make safety and justice for all families a priority. The DVRN consists of two national resource centers, four special issue resource centers, three culturally-specific resource centers, five emerging issue resource centers, and the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
Partner organizations routinely host webinars and in-person trainings, provide written resources, respond to questions from professionals working directly with victims, offer customized technical assistance, and often partner with state domestic violence coalitions and local programs on research projects and to promote cutting-edge best practices. All training, technical assistance and resources provided by the DVRN is available to Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) grantees and others seeking to address domestic violence in their communities.
Please contact each center directly for technical assistance and training opportunities.
DVRN Partner Organizations:
- Alaska Native Women’s Resource Center
- Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence
- Battered Women’s Justice Project
- Capacity Center to Expand Services to Children, Youth, and Abused Parents (at Futures Without Violence)
- Capacity Technical Assistance Project (at National Network to End Domestic Violence)
- National Center on Domestic Violence Trauma & Mental Health
- National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women
- National Domestic Violence Hotline and Love is Respect
- National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center
- National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities (at Casa de Esperanza)
- National LGBTQ Institute on IPV (a collaboration of the Northwest Network of Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse and the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs)
- National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence (at Futures Without Violence)
- National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
- Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody (at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges)
- StrongHearts Native Helpline
- Ujima: The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community
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