An ounce of prevention can save lives. Government, private and nonprofit groups offer ready-to-use programs to stop violence in all forms and to promote healthy norms. It takes a village.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
AFSP is a voluntary health organization that gives those affected by suicide a nationwide community empowered by research, education, and advocacy to take action against this leading cause of death.
Breakthrough
Breakthrough is a global human rights organization driving the culture change we need to build a world in which all people live with dignity, equality, and respect. They do this by using a potent mix of media, arts, and tech with an intersectional feminist approach.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
CDC is committed to stopping violence before it happens The organization offers training, tips and tools designed specifically for prevention practitioners. Use VetoViolence to help launch or enhance your local prevention efforts.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) / Violence Prevention
CDC Violence Prevention sees violence as a serious public health problem. From infants to the elderly, it affects people in all stages of life.
Cure Violence Global
Through a rigorous, scientific, and data-driven approach CVG helps communities to implement violence prevent programs.
Equimundo
Equimundo works to achieve gender equality and social justice by transforming intergenerational patterns of harm and promoting patterns of care, empathy and accountability among boys and men throughout their lives.
Finding Our Voices
Finding Our Voices helps girls and women recognize, avoid, safely leave and heal from dangerous relationships; educate the general community about the complexity, insidiousness, and pervasiveness of domestic abuse, and to galvanize action toward accountability and justice.
Futures Without Violence
FUTURES provides groundbreaking programs, policies, and campaigns that empower individuals and organizations working to end violence against women and children around the world.
Gendercide Awareness Project
Gendap is a nonprofit focused on ending gendercide by raising awareness and taking effective action including art exhibits, lectures and education. They work with a broad array of community organizations including the World Affairs Council of Dallas - Ft Worth.
JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION
Joyful Heart Foundation’s mission is to transform society’s response to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse, support survivor healing, and end the violence forever.
Just Detention International
JDI is a health and human rights organization that works to end sexual abuse in all forms of detention. It works with policymakers, advocates and corrections officials to safeguard basic rights of all people.
Media Education Foundation/Jackson Katz Collection
Jackson Katz has developed and contributed to major programs in the prevention of violence used the United States and around the world. Resources include handouts and downloads, lessons and ideas, and a newsletter.
MVP (Mentors in Violence) Strategies
Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) is one of the longest-running and most widely used gender violence, sexual harassment and bullying prevention programs in the world. MVP offers programs for schools, sports, the Department of Defense, corporations, and leadership training
National Coalition for the Homeless
The National Coalition for the Homeless is a network of people who are experiencing or have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates. They also provide a list of places to look for help.
National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
The Prevention Coalition is a unified effort to promote the healthy development of children and youth, and end their sexual abuse and exploitation. It was formed as a means for coordination and collaboration among a wide variety of organizations and individuals committed to prevention.
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) is a comprehensive source of information for those wanting to educate themselves and help others on the many issues related to domestic violence. The organization has developed key initiatives that in include Building Comprehensive Solutions to Domestic Violence, The DV Evidence Project and more. It offers tool kits and community training,
National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
The mission of NSVRC is to provide leadership in preventing and responding to sexual violence through collaborating, sharing and creating resources. They offer survivor support, friends and family help, advocates and educator resources, a directory of experts and a library. They envision a world where diversity is celebrated and all people are treated with dignity and respect and have full autonomy over their own bodies and sexual expression.
PREVENTCONNECT/ A NATIONAL PROJECT OF VALORUS
The goal of PreventConnect is to advance the primary prevention of sexual assault and relationship violence by building a community of practice among people who are engaged in such efforts.
PREVENTIONS INNOVATIONS RESEARCH CENTER (PIRC)
Prevention Innovations Research Center (PIRC) is internationally recognized for its collaborative research and community engagement focusing on sexual and relationship violence and stalking prevention and response. PIRC conducts cutting-edge research that informs policy and practice by creating innovative approaches to violence prevention. The research center offers Bringing in the Bystander training that can be adapted to high school and corporate participants.
PreventIPV
The IPV Prevention Council envisions a future in which a multitude of agencies and organizations at the local, state, territory, tribal and national levels are engaged with domestic violence coalitions in collaborative and sustained primary prevention activities leading to the social change that addresses the root causes of intimate partner violence in our culture.
Prevention Institute
The goal of Prevention Institute is to advance primary prevention practices—promoting policies, organizational practices, and collaborative efforts that improve health and quality of life. They are committed to preventing illness and injury, to fostering health and social equity, and to building momentum for community prevention as an integral component of a quality health system.
Promising.futures without violence
Promising Futures partners with communities to improve responses to family violence, offer specialized services, new resources and research.
Raliance
RALIANCE advances prevention initiatives across all industries by awarding grants, advancing research, influencing policy, and helping leaders establish safe environments and strong communities.
Stalking Prevention and Awareness
SPARC: Stalking Prevention, Awareness and Resource Center is a federal funded project providing education and resources about the crime of stalking.
Stop It Now
Stop It Now uses the public health model to creating programing that stops and prevents child abuse. The organization works to promote accurate information, enhanced services to children who are victims of sexual abuse, provide specialized treatment programs and offer education.
Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention
The Training Institute provides training and technical assistance for communities worldwide. It is a program of Alliance for Hope International.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PROTECTION
The University of Northern Iowa collaborates with the Center for Violence Prevention (CVP) to provide gender violence prevention training through its training and workshops. The university uses the It’s On Us program to prevent sexual assault, programs to educate bystanders, and sets policies that define campus sexual relationship guidelines to ensure a safe environment for all students.
UN Women / Ending violence Against Women
UN Women provides the global documentation of ending violence against women; a 2018-2021 strategic plan with objectives and approach to support efforts to achieve gender equality; a Virtual Knowledge Center to End Violence Against Women and Girls; a Global Database on Violence Against Women.
VAWnet
VAWnet is an online network focused on violence against women. The organization offers a comprehensive, go-to source of information and resources for anti-violence advocates, human service professionals, educators, faith leaders, and others interested in ending domestic and sexual violence. It’s Special Collections are organized lists of select resources on specific topics. They work to maintain a sustainable, multi-disciplinary, culturally responsive, survivor-driven approach to ending gender-based violence.
WR Draw the Line
This is a Canadian interactive program to begin a dialogue about sexual violence. It offers workshops and e-learning for professionals, programs for elementary and secondary students, and parent education.