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National Domestic Violence Organizations

Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence
The Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence serves as a forum for, and clearinghouse on, information, research, resources and critical issues about violence against women in Asian and Pacific Islander communities. It is a national network of individuals and organizations working to end violence against women including advocates, community members, representatives of the mental health, law, education, and social services fields, survivors, scholars and researchers, and activists from public policy, community organizations, youth programs, immigrants’ rights networks, communities of color, women’s groups, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender communities, and other social justice organizations.

Asista
Asista works to centralize, enhance and expand immigration assistance to frontline advocates and attorneys who provide legal assistance to immigrant victims.

Battered Women’s Justice Project (BWJP)
BWJP provides training and technical assistance on civil legal and criminal justice system issues related to violence against women, including survivors who have been charged with crimes. For assistance, call 1-800-903-0111 and follow the prompts to access assistance on the issues on which you have questions.

FaithTrust Institute
FaithTrust Institute is an international, multifaith organization working to end sexual and domestic violence. It provides communities and advocates with tools to address the religious and cultural issues related to abuse. The FaithTrust web site contains many resources that can be ordered to assist with these efforts.

Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence
The National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence serves as the national clearinghouse for information on the health care response to domestic violence. The Center develops educational resources, training materials, and model protocols on domestic violence and screening to help health care providers better serve battered women.

Institute on Domestic Violence in the African-American Community
The mission of the Institute is to provide an interdisciplinary vehicle and forum by which scholars, practitioners, and observers of family violence in the African American community will have the continual opportunity to articulate their perspectives on family violence through research findings, the examination of service delivery and intervention mechanisms, and the identification of appropriate and effective responses to prevent/reduce family violence in the African American community.

MINCAVA (Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse) Electronic Clearinghouse
The MINCAVA Electronic Clearinghouse contains educational resources about all types of violence, including published research, funding sources, information about upcoming training events, individuals and organizations that can provide technical assistance, and lists of training manuals, videos and other resources.

National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence
The mission of the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence (NCDSV) is to design, provide, and customize training and consultation, influence policy, promote collaboration and enhance diversity with the goal of ending domestic and sexual violence.

National Clearinghouse on Abuse Later in Life
The Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence created the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL) in 1999 with funding from the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women. NCALL provides program development, policy and technical assistance, and training that addresses the nexus between domestic violence, sexual assault and elder abuse/neglect. The vision of NCALL is to end abuse and neglect of older adults and people with disabilities by family members, caregivers and others with ongoing relationships with victims.

National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women
The National Clearninghouse for the Defense of Battered Women works with battered women who have been arrested and are facing trial, as well as those who are serving prison sentences. National Clearinghouse staff provide customized technical assistance to battered women charged with crimes and to members of their defense teams (defense attorneys, advocates, expert witnesses and others). In addition to providing individualized technical assistance, National Clearinghouse staff conduct training seminars for members of the criminal justice and advocacy communities, and for the general public, regarding the unique experiences of battered women defendants.

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
The Mission of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence is to organize for collective power by advancing transformative work, thinking and leadership of communities and individuals working to end the violence in our lives. NCADV's work includes coalition-building at the local, state, regional and national levels; support for the provision of community-based, non-violent alternatives for battered women and their children; public education and technical assistance; and policy development and innovative legislation.

National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (Alianza)
Alianza is part of a national effort to address the domestic violence needs and concerns of under-served populations. Alianza’s mission is to promote understanding, initiate and sustain dialogue, and generate solutions that move toward the elimination of domestic violence affecting Latino communities, with an understanding of the sacredness of all relations and communities.

National Network to End Domestic Violence
The National Network to End Domestic Violence is a membership and advocacy organization of state domestic violence coalitions, allied organizations and supportive individuals that provides leadership on public policy related to domestic violence.

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
NRCDV provides information and technical assistance on domestic violence and related issues. The NRCDV serves organizations and individuals throughout the country, including community-based domestic violence programs, state coalitions, federal, state, local and Tribal governments and agencies, policy leaders, the media and anyone seeking information on domestic violence.

Resource Center on Child Protection and Custody
The Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody provides access to information and assistance to those working in the field of domestic violence and child protection and custody.

Sacred Circle National Resource Center to End Violence Against Native Women
Sacred Circle, a member of the domestic violence resource network created by the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides technical assistance, policy development, training, materials, and resources about violence against Native women, and assists with the development of tribal strategies and responses.

Southwest Center for Law and Policy
The Southwest Center for Law and Policy provides legal education, training, and technical assistance on domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse, child abuse, abuse of persons with disabilities, and stalking to tribal communities and to the agencies and professionals serving them.

Stalking Resource Center
The Stalking Resource Center is a program of the National Center for Victims of Crime. Its mission is to raise national awareness of stalking and to encourage the development and implementation of multidisciplinary responses to stalking in local communities across the country. The Stalking Resource Center consists of five components: a Peer-to-Peer Exchange Program, Training, an Information Clearinghouse, a Practitioners' Network, and a web site.

VAWnet
The Violence Against Women Network (VAWnet), the National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, is a comprehensive collection of full-text, searchable electronic resources on domestic violence, sexual violence and related issues. VAWnet's primary goal is to support local, state and national violence against women prevention and intervention strategies that are safe, effective, and address the self-identified issues of consequence to victims and survivors.

National Mental Health Organizations

American Psychiatric Association
The American Psychiatric Association is a medical specialty society whose member physicians work together to ensure humane care and effective treatment for all persons with mental disorders. It is the voice and conscience of modern psychiatry. Its vision is a society that has available, accessible quality psychiatric diagnosis and treatment.

American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. According to its bylaws, the objectives of the American Psychological Association shall be to advance psychology as a science and profession and as a means of promoting health, education, and human welfare.

National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors (NACBHD)
NACBHD is a national association for county and county-sponsored behavioral health authorities. It is comprised of county and other local authorities charged with governing mental health, addictions and developmental disability services in communities. The stated mission of MACBHD is to promote excellence in the delivery of county and county-sponsored behavioral health and developmental disability services.

National Association of Mental Health Planning and Advisory Councils (NAMHPAC)
NAMHPAC is an association of individuals involved with state mental health planning. NAMHPAC provides technical support, opportunities for people to share information, trainings, and resources.

National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD)
The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) represents the public mental health service delivery system in all 50 states, 4 territories, and the District of Columbia. NASMHPD is the only national association that represents state mental health commissioners/directors and their agencies.

National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare is the oldest and largest trade association representing the nation’s providers of mental health, substance abuse and developmental disability services. Members include community mental health centers, hospitals, state associations of providers, and local behavioral health authorities. Individual practitioners, consultants, and senior behavioral health administrators are members of the National Council’s individual membership section.

National Resource Center for Psychiatric Advance Directives (NRC-PAD)
The National Resource Center for Psychiatric Advance Directives provides comprehensive information on psychiatric advance directives, legal documents that people with mental illnesses can create to specify, in advance, their preferred course of treatment if they should experience a mental health crisis. The website provides a state-by-state breakdown of relevant statutes and listings of local resources for patients and families, discussion forums, answers to frequently asked questions, testimonials from people who have used PADs, and information on the latest research findings concerning mental health issues.

Mental Health Consumer Recovery/Peer Support Resources

Shery Mead Consulting
After she was threatened with the loss of custody of her children, Shery, a former consumer of mental health services, founded a peer organization whose focus was specifically “unlearning the mental patient role” and created New Hampshire's first peer-run crisis respite program. She has developed training for judges and lawyers about making reasonable custody decisions in cases where one parent has a psychiatric diagnosis. Shery offers a broad range of training based on individual needs. These may include training in trauma-informed peer support, warmline skills, peer run crisis alternatives, evaluation and research training (with Dr. Cheryl MacNeil), and training for professionals in recovery-based practice.

www.MentalHealthRecovery.org hopes to increase mental health recovery internet research by hosting mental health recovery research experiments, surveys, and questionnaires in the areas of patient, treatment, therapist and community variables. The web site is currently in its initial construction stages and, as such, welcomes all input as to what areas and investigation forms of mental health recovery research viewers may wish to see addressed on the web site.

Pat Deegan and Associates, LLC. Pat Deegan & Associates, LLC is a consumer/survivor/ex-patient run organization. Its mission is to improve the personal, social, economic and cultural well being of people with psychiatric disabilities through ex-patient directed study and research. The organization conducts research to broaden the knowledge of recovery, resilience, empowerment and healing; promote self-determination for people with disabilities; create new resources, including self-help and peer support materials; amplify the voice and support initiatives of people of color, women, children and youth, and gay men and lesbians who have been diagnosed with mental illness; discover, interpret and preserve the historical perspective and collective heritage of people receiving services in mental health systems; and investigate problems with and propose solutions to the forces that oppress and devalue people with disabilities.

Mental Health Policy and Advocacy Organizations

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
The mission of the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is to protect and advance the rights of adults and children who have mental disabilities. The Center envisions an America where people who have mental illnesses or developmental disabilities exercise their own life choices and have access to the resources that enable them to participate fully in their communities.

First Nations Behavioral Health Association (FNBHA)
FNBHA was established to provide an organization for Native American indigenous people to advocate for the mental well being of Native peoples by increasing the knowledge and awareness of issues impacting Native mental health. The purpose of FNBHA is to provide national leadership to all groups, institutions, and individuals that plan, provide, and access Native American behavioral health services.

National Alliance of Multi-Ethnic Behavioral Health Associations
NAMBHA is a non-profit organization representing four racial/ethnic behavioral health associations. Its purpose is to bring organizations representing diverse people of color together as a single voice to increase the effectiveness of advocacy, ensure a positive impact on the use of resources, and to collectively share expertise on behavioral health issues that significantly affect people of color. The mission of NAMBHA is to collectively promote the behavioral well-being and full potential of people of color and to eliminate disparities in behavioral health services and treatment through policy reform, culturally appropriate research and evaluation, systems change and transformation, acquisition and distribution of resources, and consumer involvement.

National Allliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
NAMI is a grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. NAMI is dedicated to the eradication of mental illnesses and to the improvement of the quality of life of all whose lives are affected by mental illness.

National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
NAAPIHMA advocates on behalf of Asian American/Pacific Islander mental health issues, serves as a forum for effective collaboration, and networks among stake holders of community based organizations, consumers, family members, service providers, program developers, researchers, evaluators and policy makers.

National Latino Behavioral Health Association (NLBHA)
NLBHA was established to fill a need for a unified national voice for Latino populations in the behavioral health arena and to bring attention to the disparities that exist in areas of access, utilization, practice-based research, and adequately trained personnel. The mission NLBHA is to provide national leadership for the advancement of Latino behavioral health services.

National Leadership Council on African American Behavioral Health, Inc. (NLC)
The National Leadership Council on African American Behavioral Health, Inc. is an organization supporting the behavioral health and well being of African American elders, adults, children, adolescents and their families. The NLC seeks to provide leadership in building and supporting behavioral health systems that reduce disparities and contribute to optimal health within communities.

National Mental Health Association (NMHA)
NMHA, a nonprofit organization addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illness, works to improve the mental health of all Americans, especially the 54 million individuals with mental disorders, through advocacy, education, research and service.

Disability Rights

Adaptive Environments
Adaptive Environments promotes design that works for everyone across the spectrum of ability and age and enhances human experience. AE provides access to information and guidance about the civil rights laws and codes and education and consultation about strategies, precedents, and best practices to help design places, things, communication, and policy that integrate solutions to the reality of human diversity.

Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI)
Established in 1993, MDRI documents conditions, publishes reports on human rights enforcement, and promotes international oversight of the rights of people with mental disabilities. Drawing on the skills and experience of attorneys, mental health professionals, human rights advocates, people with mental disabilities, and their family members, MDRI trains and supports advocates seeking legal and service system reform and assists governments to develop laws and policies to promote community integration and human rights enforcement for people with mental disabilities.

Vera Institute of Justice - Accessing Safety Initiative
To foster collaboration and cross-learning and to better ensure the safety of victims with disabilities and Deaf victims, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) will fund six to ten pilot sites with local agencies that serve people with disabilities and local agencies that serve victims of violence. Vera, in partnership with OVW, has launched the Accessing Safety Initiative (ASI), which works to enhance the capacity of to address the needs of women with disabilities and deaf women by providing education and technical assistance to the service providers in the grantee communities.

World Health Organization - Definition of Disability
World Health Assembly Resolution 58.23 calls on the World Health Organization to work towards ensuring equal opportunities and promotion of human rights for people with disabilities, especially those who are poor.

Trauma

Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT)
IVAT is intended to serve as a resource, research and training center that includes all areas of violence, abuse and trauma. The Institute focuses on family violence, sexual assault, youth and school violence, workplace violence, violence prevention, and traumatic stress. The IVAT offers training and programs, publications, professional services, an annual international conference, regional mini-conferences, as well as community relations and outreach for each of its broad topic areas.

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS)
ISTSS is an international multidisciplinary, professional membership organization that promotes advancement and exchange of knowledge about severe stress and trauma. This includes understanding the scope and consequences of traumatic exposure, preventing traumatic events and ameliorating their consequences, and advocating for the field of traumatic stress. ISTSS offers research, resources, professional and public education, and treatment guidelines.

National Center for PTSD
The National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was created within the Department of Veterans Affairs in 1989, in response to a Congressional mandate to address the needs of veterans with military-related PTSD. Its mission is advance the clinical care and social welfare of America's veterans through research, education, and training in the science, diagnosis, and treatment of PTSD and stress-related disorders. The website is intended to serve as an educational resource concerning PTSD and other enduring consequences of traumatic stress.

National Center for Trauma-Informed Care

PILOTS Database
The PILOTS database is an electronic index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. It is produced by the National Center for PTSD, and is available to the public on computer systems maintained by Dartmouth College. There is no charge for using the database, and no account or password is required.

SanctuaryWeb.com
SanctuaryWeb is the web site of CommunityWorks, a consultative, educational and organizational development company focusing on reducing the potential for conflict and violence in treatment settings, at school, or in the workplace using The Sanctuary Model®.

Sidran Institute
The Sidran Institute, is devoted to helping people who have experienced traumatic life events and to promote greater understanding of: early recognition and treatment of trauma-related stress in children; understanding of trauma and its long-term effect on adults; strategies leading to greatest success in self-help recovery for trauma survivors; clinical methods and practices leading to greatest success in aiding trauma victims; and development of public policy initiatives that are responsive to the needs of adult and child survivors of traumatic events.