The following organizations are among many that provide information on family violence. If you are in crisis, call 911, your local domestic violence program, or the 24-hour National Domestic Violence Hotline at (800) 799-7233. Inclusion on this list is for information purposes and does not constitute an endorsement by the Clearinghouse or the Children's Bureau.

ABA Center on Children and the Law
740 15th St NW
Washington, DC 20005-1022 Phone: (202) 662-1720
Fax: (202) 662-1755
E-mail: ctrchildlaw@abanet.org
Website: http://www.abanet.org/child/
The ABA Center on Children and the Law seeks to improve the laws, policies, and judicial procedures affecting children by supporting legal representation for youth, facilitating coordination between attorneys and caseworkers, reducing court delays, and providing training to court professionals involved in child welfare.

liance for Children and Families
11700 West Lake Park Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53224-3099 Phone: (414) 359-1040
Fax: (414) 359-1074
E-mail: info@alliance1.org
Website: http://www.alliance1.org
The Alliance is an association representing private, nonprofit child and family service organizations. Its members provide an array of services ranging from residential care to domestic abuse prevention and intervention. The mission of the Alliance is to strengthen the ability of its members to serve and advocate for children, families, and communities. The Alliance was formed by a merger between Family Service America and the National Association of Homes and Services for Children in 1998.

ociation of Junior Leagues International Inc. (AJLI)
132 West 31st Street
11th Floor
New York, NY 10001-3406 Phone: (212) 951-8300
Fax: (212) 481-7196
E-mail: info@ajli.org
Website: http://www.ajli.org
The Association of Junior Leagues International is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. The AJLI offers programs in many areas including youth services, family support services, and child welfare (adoption, child abuse and neglect, foster care, domestic violence, and permanency planning).

Chiwick Center for Children and Families
3020 Children's Way
MC 5016
San Diego, CA 92123 Phone: (858) 966-8572
(858) 576-1700, x 4972
Fax: (858) 966-8018
E-mail: chadwickcenter@chsd.org
Website: http://www.charityadvantage.com/chadwickcenter
The Chadwick Center's mission is to protect children and strengthen families through prevention, treatment, education, public policy, advocacy, and research in the areas of child maltreatment and family violence. The Center uses a multidisciplinary, family-centered approach.

David and Lucille Packard Foundation Children, Families and Communities Program
The Future of Children
The David and Lucille Packard Foundation
300 Second Street, Suite 200
Los Altos, CA 94022 Phone: (650) 948-7658
Fax: (650) 941-2273
Website: http://www.packard.org/
One of the major program areas of the Foundation is the Children, Families, and Communities Program. The Program focuses on children's access to high-quality health care, the development of children and youth, the economic security of families, and the reduction of violence in homes. The "Future of Children" is a publication of this Program. The primary purpose of this journal is to promote effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers and service providers with objective information based on the best available research.

Domestic Violence Resource Network (DVRN)
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
6400 Flank Drive, Suite 1300
Harrisburg, PA 17112 Fax: (717) 545-9456
TTY: 1-800-553-2508
1-800-787-3224
Toll-Free: 1-800-537-2238
1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
Website: http://www.nrcdv.org.dvrn.html
Funded by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Domestic Violence Resource Network strives to strengthen the existing support systems serving battered women, their children, and other victims of domestic violence. Each of the 5 resource centers partners with community-based domestic violence programs; state coalitions; local, state and federal government agencies; Indian tribal organizations; policy makers; and others involved in assisting victims of domestic violence to identify and respond to emerging information and technical assistance gaps. The 5 centers include: the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence; the Battered Women's Justice Project; the Resource Center on Domestic Violence, Child Protection and Custody; the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence; and the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

FaithTrust Institute
2400 North 45th Street
No. 10
Seattle, WA 98103 Phone: (206) 634-1903
Fax: (206) 634-0115
Website: http://www.faithtrustinstitute.org
The FaithTrust Institute is an inter-religious educational resource that addresses issues of sexual and domestic violence. The Institute's goal is to engage religious leaders in the task of ending abuse, and to serve as a bridge between the religious and secular communities.

Family Life Development Center (FLDC)
Cornell University
Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4401 Phone: (607) 255-7794
Fax: (607) 255-8562
Website: http://www.human.cornell.edu/centers/fldc/
The mission of the Family Life Development Center is to improve professional and public efforts to understand and act upon risk and protective factors in the lives of children, youth, families, and communities that affect family strengths, child well-being, and youth development. The FLDC accomplishes its mission through research, training, outreach, education, and program development and implementation. Current areas of special interest include childhood violence prevention and evaluation of programs designed to prevent abuse and neglect. The FLDC operates the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN), which promotes scholarly exchange among researchers and makes original data available for secondary analysis.

Family Research Laboratory (FRL)
126 Horton Social Science Center
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824-3586 Phone: (603) 862-1888
(603) 862-1122
Website: http://www.unh.edu/frl/
The Family Research Laboratory devotes its attention to understanding family violence and the effect of violence on families through comprehensive literature reviews and research-based studies. Research topics in all aspects of family violence and abuse include physical abuse of children, corporal punishment of children, child sexual abuse, pornography, violence between siblings, parental abductions, and missing and abducted children.

Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF)
383 Rhode Island Street
Suite 304
San Francisco, CA 94103-5133 Phone: (415) 252-8900
Fax: (415) 252-8991
TTY: (800) 595-4889
E-mail: fund@endabuse.org
Website: http://endabuse.org
The Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) works to end violence against women and children around the world. Strongly advocating for the Violence Against Women Act, passed by Congress in 1994, the FVPF has expanded its scope by reaching out to new audiences that include men and youth, promoting leadership within communities to ensure that prevention efforts become self-sustaining, and transforming the way health care providers, police, judges, employers, and others respond to violence.

Family Violence Sexual Assault Institute (FVSAI)
6160 Cornerstone Court East
San Diego, CA 92121 Phone: (858) 623-2777, Ext. 416
Fax: (858) 646-0761
E-mail: fvsai@alliant.edu
Website: http://www.fvsai.org
The Family Violence Sexual Assault Institute is a resource center that maintains a clearinghouse of references and unpublished papers concerning all aspects of family violence and sexual assault. The FVSAI's mission is to share and disseminate information, provide networking opportunities among professionals, and assist with program evaluation, consultation, and training that promotes violence-free living.

Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA)
School of Social Work, University of Minnesota
105 Peters Hall
1404 Gortner Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108-6142 Phone: (612) 624-0721
Fax: (612) 625-4288
Website: http://www.mincava.umn.edu/
MINCAVA's mission is to support research, education, and access to violence related resources. To that end, MINCAVA provides up-t-date educational resources about all types of violence, including higher education syllabi, published research, funding information, training events, both individuals and organizations which serve as resources, and a searchable database of training manuals, videos and other resources.

National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC)
2000 M Street NW
Suite 480
Washington, DC 20036 Phone: (202) 467-8700
Fax: (202) 467-8701
TDD: (800) 211-7996
Toll-Free: (800) FYI-CALL
Website: http://www.ncvc.org
The National Center for Victims of Crime provides direct services and resources, advocates for passage of laws and public policies, and delivers training and technical assistance to organizations, counselors, and attorneys who assist victims of crime.

National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
330 C Street SW
Washington, DC 20447 Phone: (703) 385-7565
Fax: (703) 385-3206
Toll-Free: (800) FYI-3366
E-mail: nccanch@caliber.com
Website: http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov
The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information, a service of the Children's Bureau, helps professionals locate information on child abuse and neglect and related child welfare issues. Among its resources, the Clearinghouse offers a bibliographic database of child maltreatment and related child welfare materials, summaries of State laws concerned with child abuse and neglect and child welfare, fact sheets, resource lists, bulletins, and other publications. Jointly with the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse (NAIC), the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information publishes the Children's Bureau Express, an online digest of news and resources for professionals concerned with child maltreatment, child welfare, and adoption.

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV)
P.O. Box 18749
Denver, CO 80218 Phone: (303) 839-1852
Fax: (303) 831-9251
Website: http://www.ncadv.org
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence is a tax-exempt membership organization that works to stop violence in the lives of women and children by representing a network of more than 2,000 shelters, safe homes, and counseling programs. The Coalition's efforts include helping to set priorities for Federal funding, producing various publications, sponsoring national conferences, developing and promoting model programs, operating a clearinghouse for information and technical assistance, fostering public policy, promoting public awareness, and providing direct services.

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ)
P.O. Box 8970
Reno, NV 89507 Phone: (775) 784-6012
Fax: (775) 784-6628
E-mail: admin@ncjfcj.unr.edu
Website: http://www.ncjfcj.org/
The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges is dedicated to improving the court system's handling of juvenile and family matters through applied research, technical assistance, and continuing education of judges and juvenile justice professionals on family violence, child abuse and neglect, and child protection and custody.

National Council on Child Abuse and Family Violence (NCCAFV)
1025 Connecticut Avenue NW
Suite 1012
Washington, DC 20036 Phone: (202) 429-6695
Fax: (831) 655-3930
TTY: (800) 787-3244
Toll-Free: (800) 799-7233
E-mail: info@nccafv.org
Website: http://www.nccafv.org
The National Council on Child Abuse and Family Violence is a nonprofit organization serving as a private sector response to the problems of child, spousal, and elderly abuse. The Council's primary purpose is to strengthen, professionally and practically, community child abuse and family violence prevention and treatment programs nationwide. A broad range of activities is included in the Council's three major program areas: public awareness and education, professional development, and organizational development.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
P.O. Box 6000
1600 Research Boulevard
Rockville, MD 20849-6000 Phone: (301) 519-5500
Fax: (301) 519-5212
TTY: (301) 947-8374
(877) 712-9279
Toll-Free: (800) 851-3420
E-mail: askncjrs@ncjrs.org
Website: http://www.ncjrs.org
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service is one of the world's most extensive resources for information on criminal and juvenile justice; it provides services to an international community of policy makers and professionals. NCJRS is a collection of clearinghouses supporting all the bureaus of the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs: the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the OJP Program Offices. It also supports the Office of National Drug Control Policy. NCJRS answers inquiries, conducts computerized database searches, distributes publications, and makes referrals. The Service's database of nearly 125,000 documents includes studies on police arrest policy in spouse abuse incidents and recidivism rates for sexual abuse offenders.

Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)
810 7th Street NW
Washington, DC 20531 Phone: (202) 307-5983
TTY: (877) 712-9279
Toll-Free: (800) 627-6872
E-mail: askovc@ojp.usdoj.gov
Website: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/
The Office for Victims of Crimes was established by the 1984 Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) to oversee diverse programs that benefit victims of crime. OVC provides substantial funding to State victim assistance and compensation programs, the lifeline services that help victims to heal. The agency also supports training designed to educate criminal justice and allied professionals on the rights and needs of crime victims. OVC is one of five bureaus and four offices with grant-making authority within the Office of Justice Programs of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)
810 7th Street NW
Washington, DC 20531 Phone: (202) 307-6026
Fax: (202) 307-3911
TDD: (800) 787-3224
TTY: (202) 307-2277
Toll-Free: (800) 799-SAFE (7233)
E-mail: askvawo@ojp.usdoj.gov
Website: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/
The Violence Against Women Office is part of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs (OJP). The VAWO handles the Department's legal and policy issues regarding violence against women, coordinates Departmental efforts, provides national and international leadership, and responds to requests for information regarding violence against women. The Violence Against Women Office works closely with other components of OJP (the Office of Legal Policy, the Office of Legislative Affairs, the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, the Immigration and Naturalization Office, the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, U.S. Attorneys' Offices, and State, Tribal and local jurisdictions) to implement the mandates of the Violence Against Women Act and subsequent legislation.