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Causes: Crime & Law, Crime Prevention
Mission: The mission of the nrcdv is to strengthen and transform efforts to end domestic violence.
Programs: The organization works to improve community response to domestic violence and, ultimately, prevent its occurrence. Through the provision of comprehensive technical assistance, training, resource development, and organizing activities, the organization addresses a wide range of issues and serves a broad set of constituents engaged in domestic violence intervention and prevention efforts. To better understand, respond to, and prevent domestic violence, the organization has developed a number of key initiatives to facilitate a deeper focus on a particular issue or population including the following:building comprehensive solutions to domestic violence-creating a platform from which to continue to promote practical and concrete guidance on challenging advocacy issues such as child safety and supporting victims with ongoing contact with abusive partners. Domestic violence awareness project-supporting and promoting the national, tribal, territorial. State and local advocacy networks in their ongoing education efforts through public awareness campaigns, strategies, materials, resources,capacity building and technical assistance. Domestic violence evidence project-assisting state coalitions, local domestic violence programs, researchers, and other allied individuals and organizations better respond to the growing emphasis on identifying and integrating evidence-based practice into their work. Vawnet: the national online resource center on violence against women-serves as the organization's primary dissemination vehicle for domestic violence information and materials to the field on domestic violence policy, practice and research.
the national resource center on domestic violence supports the federal domestic violence and housing technical assistance consortium (the consortium), which is an innovative, collaborative approach to providing training, technical assistance, and resource development at the critical intersection of domestic and sexual violence, homelessnes, and housing.
the national resource center on domestic violence coordinates and supports the efforts of the national intimate partner violence prevention council to advance a national prevention agenda. The council envisions a future in which a wide network of collaborative and sustained primary prevention efforts lead to the social change necessary to end intimate partner violence.