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General Links

• Communities Against Violence Network CAVNET is deeply committed to helping victims and survivors of violence and to helping the public understand and eliminate violence in our society.
• Family Violence Prevention Fund is working to develop innovative responses to the epidemic of violence against women and children.
• Indiana Coalition Against Sexual Assault is a nonprofit agency that works towards the elimination of sexual abuse/assault in the lives of women and their children as well as men.
• Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community provides leadership to end/reduce domestic violence in the African American community.
• Legacy House is a service center for victims of violence.
• Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse provides research, education, and access to violence related resources.
• Minnesota Program Development, Inc. The Duluth Model is a nonprofit agency that works towards the elimination of violence in the lives of women and their children.
• National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs provides national advocacy for LGBT communities.
• National Network to End Domestic Violence is a social change organization representing state domestic violence coalitions, is dedicated to creating a social, political and economic environment in which violence against women no longer exists.
• Nonviolent Alternatives is an Indianapolis area batterers’ intervention program certified by ICADV.
• Praxis International is a nonprofit research and training organization that works toward the elimination of violence in the lives of women and children.
• The Foundation Center is the gateway to philanthropy on the World Wide Web.
• VAWnet Library is an online resource for advocates working to end domestic violence, sexual assault, and other violence in the lives of women and their children.
• Violence Against Women Online Resources provides law, criminal justice, advocacy, and social service professionals with up-to-date information on interventions to stop violence against women.
• National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence provides training, consulting, and advocacy focused on ending domestic and sexual violence.

Legal Links

• Indianapolis Bar Association Free Legal Line Legal Line is offered from 6-8 p.m. on the second Tuesday of every month (except December); it is a free service for those in need of legal advice. By calling, (317) 269-2000, anyone can speak with a qualified attorney who will help answer questions and give advice on legal matters. Legal Line is sponsored by the Indianapolis Bar Association (IBA).
• VAWA Reauthorization Bill 2006 provides information about as well as the full text of House Resolution 3403, the VAWA reauthorization bill.
• U.S. Dept. of Justice Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) was established by the 1984 Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) to oversee diverse programs that benefit victims of crime.
• Family Violence Dept. of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges is dedicated to improving the way courts, law enforcement, agencies and others respond to family violence while recognizing the legal, cultural, and psychological dynamics involved with the ultimate goal of improving the lives of domestic violence victims and their children.
• The Indiana Judicial System is used to navigate through the webpages of the Indiana Supreme Court, the Indiana Court of Appeals, the Indiana Tax Court, local trial court web pages, and many judicial agencies and programs, such as the Self-Service Legal Center, Courts in the Classroom, and Indiana CLEO.
• Protective Order Forms Self-Service provides court forms for Protective Orders that can be downloaded as Word documents or pdf files.
• Indiana Supreme Court Self-Service Legal Center provides Self-Service court forms for divorce, custody, child support and visitation can be downloaded as Word documents or pdf files.
• The Indiana General Assembly
• Indiana Criminal Justice Institute
• Women’s Law Initiative publishes state-specific legal information for domestic violence.
• American Bar Assoc. Commission on Domestic Violence has emerged as a nationally recognized entity that provides training and educational materials to attorneys and other professionals who serve victims of domestic violence.
• Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence was established in 1976 when a handful of grassroots women’s groups in the state joined together to lobby for legal protections and to develop a network of services for victims of domestic violence.
• Battered Women’s Justice Project promotes systemic change within community organizations and governmental agencies engaged in the civil and criminal justice response to domestic violence that creates true institutional accountability to the goal of ensuring safety for battered women and their families.
• Indiana Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) provides a mailing address for the victims of domestic violence, stalking or sexual assault and may be used as an actual address for most purposes, including the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, public utilities, child support, court notices, and other official business matters.
• Indiana Protective Order Registry The benefits are many, including an automatic link to IDACS and NCIC to restrict abusers’ access to firearms and to hold them accountable for violations. If you are not familiar with the Protective Order Registry, take five minutes and check it out.
• Indiana Pro Bono Commission Legal Service Providers a list of organizations that provide legal services to low income clients.