Introduction
Domestic violence, also called intimate partner violence, is a critical problem throughout the United States, with negative impact on victims, families, employers, and communities. The nature of close-knit rural communities can make it more difficult for rural victims of intimate partner violence to seek and get help. Rural areas face challenges such as higher poverty, lower rates of health insurance coverage, and less access to health care and human services providers. All of these factors make the problems facing domestic violence survivors more difficult to address.
Frequently Asked Questions Regulations, Forms & Other Useful Documents
Children and Domestic Violence: A Bulletin for Professionals
Sponsoring organization: Child Welfare Information Gateway
Overview of the impact of domestic violence on children. Includes promising practices to address the problem.
Date: 2003
Coaching Boys into Men Playbook
Author(s): Michael Carr, Jaison Morgan, Lynne Lee
Sponsoring organization: Family Violence Prevention Fund
Designed to instruct young men about the attitudes and behaviors that can lead to violence against women and to prevent violence before it begins.
Date: 2005
Fatherhood Programs and Domestic Violence
Author(s): Marguerite Roulet
Sponsoring organization: Center for Family Policy and Practice
Discusses issues confronting fatherhood programs concerning how they can or should address domestic violence.
Date: 2003
Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey
Author(s): Patricia Tjaden, Nancy Thoennes
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Justice
Report of the findings of a 1995-1996 survey concerning violence against women. Includes statistics on the risk of violence for adults and children, for different racial and ethnic groups, and data on intimate partner violence.
Date: 11 / 2000
Intergenerational Model of Domestic Violence
Author(s): Robert A. Pollak
Describes a model for understanding domestic violence based on the presence of violence in the homes husbands and wives grew up in.
Date: 10 / 2002
Intimate Partner Violence: Fact Sheet
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Facts and statistics on the occurrences, consequences and risk factors for intimate partner violence.
Date: 2006
Preventing Family Violence: Community Engagement Makes the Difference
Author(s): P. Catlin Fullwood
Sponsoring organization: Family Violence Prevention Fund
Describes community-based programs focused on preventing family violence.
Date: 09 / 2002
Rural Health Response to Domestic Violence: Policy and Practice Issues
Author(s): Rhonda M. Johnson
Sponsoring organization: Office of Rural Health Policy
A brief overview and synthesis of recent efforts to improve the health care response to domestic violence in rural communities.
Date: 08 / 2000
Rural Healthy People 2010: Injury and Violence Prevention in Rural Areas
Author(s): Graciela Castillo, James Alexander
Sponsoring organization: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
Addresses rural health issues associated
with the Healthy People 2010 focus area of injury and violence prevention. Covers both unintentional and intentional injuries.
Date: 04 / 2004
Rural Healthy People 2010: Injury and Violence Prevention in Rural Areas: A Literature Review
Author(s): Graciela Castillo, James Alexander
Sponsoring organization: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
Detailed literature review of rural health issues associated with the Healthy People 2010 focus area on injury and violence prevention.
Date: 04 / 2004
We Don’t Have the Luxury of Saying its Not Us: Domestic Violence on the Farm
Sponsoring organization: AgriWellness, Inc.
Focuses on domestic violence and how it affects farm families and rural residents.
Date: 10 / 2007
Organizations
American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence
National organization
Provides training and educational materials to attorneys and other professionals who serve victims of domestic violence.
Battered Women's Justice Project (BWJP)
Nonprofit/Foundation
Promotes innovative civil and criminal justice responses to domestic violence.
Emerge: Counseling and Education to Stop Domestic Violence
National organization
Works to eliminate violence in intimate relationships. Provides training on domestic violence offender treatment nationally.
Family Violence Prevention Fund
Nonprofit/Foundation
Works to prevent violence within the home, and in the community.
Greenbook Initiative
Nonprofit/Foundation
Helps child welfare workers, domestic violence advocates and family court judges in communities across the country change their approach to family violence to better help battered women and their children achieve safety.
Minnesota Program Development: The Duluth Model
State/regional organization
Works towards the elimination of violence in the lives of women and their children. Provides national domestic abuse intervention training and offender treatment information.
National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA)
National organization
Provides state Adult Protective Services (APS) program administrators and staff with a forum for sharing information, solving problems, and improving the quality of services for victims of elder and vulnerable adult abuse.
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC)
Federal government
Works to reduce morbidity, disability, mortality, and costs associated with injuries. Part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV)
National organization
Works for the empowerment of battered women and their children and the elimination of personal and societal violence in the lives of battered women and their children.
National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV)
National organization
Represents state domestic violence coalitions and is dedicated to creating a social, political and economic environment in which violence against women no longer exists.
National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women
National organization
Coalition of over 400 organizations and individuals that advocate and provide services for immigrant victims of domestic violence.
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
National organization
Provides support to organizations and individuals working to end violence in the lives of victims and their children through technical assistance, training and information on response to and prevention of domestic violence.
Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International (NNVAWI)
Nonprofit/Foundation
Works to eliminate violence through advancing nursing education, practice, research, and public policy.
Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)
Federal government
Addresses legal and policy issues regarding violence against women. Part of the U.S. Department of Justice.
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