BWJP is the national legal resource for gender-based violence. Our projects provide some of the nation’s leading specialized policy and practice initiatives on improving survivor safety.
Maintained by the Children's Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Gateway's purpose is to equip child welfare and related professionals with the resources needed to support positive outcomes for all children, youth, families, and communities.
Their Resource Center offers in-depth resources on women’s rights issues, including sexual violence, sexual exploitation, harmful practices, and legal discrimination from our expert network of lawyers and activists.
NCEA serves as a national resource center dedicated to the prevention of elder mistreatment, and operates as a multi-disciplinary consortium of collaborators with expertise in elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
Our mission is to lead, mobilize and raise our voices to support efforts that demand a change of conditions that lead to domestic violence such as patriarchy, privilege, racism, sexism, and classism. We are dedicated to supporting survivors and holding offenders accountable and supporting advocates.
Through its key initiatives and special projects, NRCDV works to improve community response to domestic violence and, ultimately, prevent its occurrence. Our comprehensive technical assistance, training and resource development are a few examples of the many ways in which NRCDV broadly serves those dedicated to ending domestic violence in relationships and communities.
NSVRC provides research & tools to advocates working on the frontlines to end sexual harassment, assault, and abuse with the understanding that ending sexual violence also means ending racism, sexism, and all forms of oppression.
The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) provides federal leadership in developing the nation’s capacity to reduce violence against women and administer justice for and strengthen services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
The Domestic Violence Clinic is a trial practice clinic that addresses gender-based violence across multiple legal settings. Students in the Domestic Violence Clinic train with a team of expert faculty as they represent survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in trial and appellate courts.
Students in the Domestic Violence Clinic represent victims of domestic violence with a variety of civil legal issues including custody, divorce, visitation, housing, consumer, public assistance, and procurement of protective orders.
Students in the Domestic Violence Clinic assist in the representation of victims of domestic violence in restraining order cases (209A) as well as victims of sexual assault in Harassment Order Cases (258E).