Project Partners

Urban Indian Health Institute
www.uihi.org

Office on Violence Against Women Tribal Task Force
www.ovw.usdoj.gov/section904-taskforce.html

US Office for Victims of Crime
www ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/

National Indigenous Women's Resource Center
www.niwrc.org

NW Indian Treatment Center
www.squaxinisland.org

Fact Sheet on Intimate Partner Violence
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/ipvfacts.htm

This fact sheet provides an overview of the problem of intimate partner violence and its health effects. It provides information about factors that put victims and offenders at risk for violence and describes prevention and intervention strategies.

Violence Against Women Office Web Site - U.S. Department of Justice

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo

The Department of Justice, through its Violence Against Women
Office, provides an overview of the problem on a national
scale, and also provides information about state-by-state
activities and resources.

 

Intimate Partner Violence - U.S. Department of Justice, May, 2000

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/ipv.htm

This document provides statistical information on violence
by intimates (current or former spouses, girlfriends, or boyfriends)
from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).

Grant Writing Information and Resource - Violence Against Women (VAWnet.org)

http://www.vawnet.org/Assoc_Files_VAWnet/GrantWriting.pdf

This document provides grant writing information and resources from the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence.

 

www.ovw.usdoj.gov/section904-taskforce.html

American Indian/Alaska Native women are sovereign

All Native Women have inherent rights to:
  1. Choose her unique path in Life without fear of reprisal.
  2. Attain self-governance in order to make her decisions without others’ approval or agreement.
  3. Secure resources she need including housing, food, clothes, transportation and other necessities.
  4. Find her voice, in order to speak freely for herself in her own way, to define her own reality, experiences, and self – identity.

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