National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Since 1980 NCADV has sponsored a national conference on domestic violence and is the premiere national conference in the U. S. Advocates and survivors come together to share ideas, programs, and strategies to reduce violence in the home and community.

The NCADV Public Policy Office collaborates with other national organizations to promote legislation and policies that serve and protect victims and survivors of domestic violence, and we work to change the narrative surrounding domestic violence. We seek macro-level change in order to create a society in which domestic violence is never tolerated or minimized, in which victims and survivors are respected, and in which service providers have the resources to serve all victims and survivors. In turn, we rely on our members and our partners’ members to provide grassroots support, contacting their congressional delegations, and making their voices heard at the local level. We also provide technical support to individuals and groups seeking information on legislation, laws, policy, studies, and other resources pertaining to domestic violence at the national level.

Since 1994, NCADV has been memorializing the many women, children, and men killed by abusers in the U.S. through our Remember My Name™ project. Twenty three years ago, RMN™ was created by Ms. Magazine and NCADV to bring awareness to the issue of domestic violence, honor those who have lost their lives, and spotlight the all-too-common outcome of abusers’ choices and actions. Each year, we produce a memorial poster listing the names and ages of those killed by an abuser and the state in which they died.

NCADV’s monthly webinars explore emerging issues, insights, best practices, and research from leaders in the domestic violence field. Each webinar offers an opportunity to improve professional skillsets and knowledge base with detailed,
hands-on video training, engagingly delivered.

NCADV’s Financial Education Project addresses one of the main barriers victims encounter when seeking safety and independence—financial independence. One of the most common reasons victims of domestic violence either stay with or return to an abuser is because they fear they will be unable to provide financially for themselves and/or their children. In 2000, NCADV collaborated with the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) to develop these financial education materials in an ongoing effort to support victims of domestic violence in their endeavors to achieve economic self-sufficiency. The Financial Education Project materials include topics such as safety planning, budgeting, identity theft, banking, predatory lending, credit, getting a job, money management, and taxes.

Take A Stand FOR Healthy Relationships - an initiative funded by a contribution from the Verizon Foundation, is an exciting new teen dating violence prevention program developed by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) and Discovery Education. Centered on teaching students how to understand and build healthy relationships, this new standards-aligned curriculum encourages important skills in communication, self-reflection, and self-awareness. Students will learn to recognize healthy and safe qualities and behaviors in relationships, and how to effectively and safely ally for themself and others to help them build healthy relationships.

NCADV is pleased to offer Voices, NCADV’s National Speakers Bureau that connects survivors to the community as well as create awareness and dialogue around issues related to domestic violence.
NCADV’s National Speakers Bureau is the platform that encourages domestic violence survivors to raise their voices to speak about the complexities of intimate partner violence. Voices will help transform the narrative surrounding domestic violence by giving the issue real faces, real voices and real stories at a grassroots level.

NCADV provides a central listing of organizations that may be helpful to victims, survivors, or advocates in the domestic violence field. NCADV also provides materials to support the work in the domestic violence field including statistic sheets, FAQs, briefs, papers, and toolkits.