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 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.
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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