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One event held by the nonprofit was the 2016 National Coalition Against Domestic Violence Conference held October 23–26, 2016 in Chandler, Arizona. The conference is held every two years and is a place for survivors, advocates, social workers, law enforcement, prosecutors, medical providers, and more to learn cutting-edge content and network ...
Ellen Louise Pence (April 15, 1948 – January 6, 2012) [1] was an American scholar and a social activist.She co-founded the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, [2] an inter-agency collaboration model used in all 50 states in the U.S. and over 17 countries. [3]
Womankind, formerly known as the New York Asian Women's Centre (NYAWC), was founded in 1982 by a group of volunteers led by Pat Eng. [1] In 2017, the NYAWC changed its name to Womankind. [2] It is a non-profit organization which aims to empower Asian survivors of gender based violence.
The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) is a 501(c)(3) [3] not-for-profit organization founded in 1990, [1] based in the District of Columbia. It is a network of state and territorial domestic violence coalitions, representing over 2,000 member organizations throughout the US. The National Network to End Domestic Violence works to ...
[13]: 94 The activist organizations against VAW, both with and without the support of their governments, attempted to develop "innovative efforts" to assist battered women by providing them services such as shelters and centers; drafting and lobbying governments to include the recognition and language of VAW into national legislations and ...
The Marjaree Mason Center is a non-profit, shelter-based, domestic violence program headquartered in Fresno, California, which serves the whole of Fresno County.Named for an Easton, California woman who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, the center was founded in 1979 and operates one of the largest shelters in California.
The feminist theory underlying the Duluth model is that men use violence within relationships to exercise abusive power and control.The curriculum "is designed to be used within a community using its institutions to diminish the power of batterers over their victims and to explore with each abusive man the intent and source of his violence and the possibilities for change through seeking a ...
Stacey Lannert has since founded Healing Sisters, a resource website and non-profit organization to aid women who have suffered abuse, as well as to work to end sexual abuse in the United States. [6] She has appeared as a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show on May 14, 2009; [ 7 ] The Joy Behar Show on March 16, 2011; and Piers Morgan Tonight on ...