Domestic Violence Resources

Handouts and Guides

• Domestic Violence FAQ's and Violencia Doméstica (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists)
• Tip Sheets on Stalking for Victims and for Advocates (Dept. of Justice)
• Fact Sheet: Understanding Sexual Violence
• Domestic Violence: Protecting Yourself and Your Children - also in Spanish (American Academy of Family Physicians)
• Know Your Rights: Domestic Violence (American Bar Association)
• Leaving an Abusive Relationship - also in Spanish (Dept. of HHS, Office on Women's Health)
• Common Reactions After Trauma - also in Spanish (National Center for PTSD)
• National Domestic Violence Hotline brochures (see all downloadable materials here):
  • General Hotline Information
  • What is a Safety Plan?
  • Personal Safety Plan – English
  • Personal Safety Plan – Spanish
  • Sexual Coercion
  • Can an abusive partner change?
  • Are you hurting your partner?
• Power and Control Wheels (Domestic Abuse Intervention Project):
  • Power and Control Wheel
  • Power & Control Wheel – Spanish
  • Immigrant Power & Control Wheel
  • Immigrant Power & Control Wheel – Spanish
  • LGBT Power & Control Wheel
  • LGBT Power & Control Wheel – Spanish
• Offering Support (National Domestic Violence Hotline)

Hotlines and Other Phone Assistance

• National Domestic Violence Hotline:
  1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
• National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-HOPE (4673)
• National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline: 1-866-331-9474
• National Victim of Crime Hotline: 1-855-4-VICTIM (855-484-2846)
• California Partnership to End Domestic Violence: 1-800-524-4765, 1-916-444-7163
• California Coalition Against Sexual Assault: 916-446-2520;
  Text/SMS: 916-905-2272

Helpful Websites

• AEquitas
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Intimate Partner Violence Prevention and Sexual Violence Prevention
• End Violence Against Women International
• Futures Without Violence
• Mending the Sacred Hoop
• National Alliance to End Sexual Violence
• National Center for Victims of Crime
• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• National Network to End Domestic Violence
• National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
• National Sexual Violence Resource Center
• Office on Violence Against Women (U.S. Dept. of Justice)
• Peace Over Violence (formerly, L.A. Commission on Assaults Against Women)
• PreventConnect
• Rape Abuse Incest National Network
• Resource Sharing Project
• Responding to Campus Sexual Assault
• Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault
• Stalking Resource Center
• Vision of Hope

Articles

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: Clinical Guidance on Intimate Partner Violence and Reproductive and Sexual Coercion
• Intimate Partner Violence Around the Time of Pregnancy: Association with Breastfeeding Behavior (Journal of Women's Health, 2006)
• The Impact of Current and Past Interpersonal Violence on Women's Mental Health (Social Science Medicine, 2005)
• Violence Against Women and the Perinatal Period: The Impact of Lifetime Violence and
  Abuse on Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Breastfeeding (Trauma Violence Abuse, 2007)