Local Resources (Minnesota)
United Way 2-1-1 is your community help line for local information about employment, food, housing, education, health services, childcare and much more. It’s free, confidential and available 24/7. Multilingual service available. Dial 2-1-1 or (651)291-0211. You can also call the statewide toll free number at 800-543-7709.
Battered Women's Legal Advocacy Project (BWLAP): Legal information, consultation, training, litigation and legal resource support, and policy development assistance to battered women and to criminal justice, legal and social service systems.
Cornerstone Advocacy Service: Continuum of services for adults and children who have experienced domestic violence that builds sustainable self-reliance and revives the human spirit. Day One® is a statewide program of Cornerstone.
The Dwelling Place: A non-denominational, faith-based domestic abuse organization offering a 12-month transitional housing program for women and children. Services for our residents include: support groups, parenting education, individual and family therapy, case management, financial education and career counseling.
Hague Domestic Violence Project: Dedicated to creating a comprehensive resource that will enable mothers, domestic violence advocates, attorneys and judges to better prepare themselves for Hague Convention cases in the United States' legal system.
Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community (IDVAAC): Focused on the unique circumstances of African Americans as they face issues related to domestic violence - including intimate partner violence, child abuse, elder maltreatment, and community violence.
Mending the Sacred Hoop--Technical Assistance Project: Offers training and technical assistance to American Indian and Alaskan Native communities in the effort to eliminate violence in the lives of women and their children.
Minnesota Center against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA): Supports research, education, and access to violence related resources.
Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women (MCBW): Statewide coalition of local, regional, and statewide member organizations advocating on behalf of battered women and their children.
Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center (MIWRC): Offers a broad range of programs to educate and empower American Indian women and their families, and to inform and assist those who work providing services to the community.
OutFront: OutFront Minnesota’s Anti-Violence Program works to end violence and harassment against GLBT community members in Minnesota and offers them support, information/resources and advocacy services.
Trans Youth Support Network (TYSN): The Trans Youth Support Network is a partnership of youth and community members working together to support trans youth in Minnesota.
Rape and Sexual Abuse Center of the Neighborhood Involvement Program (RSAC): Provides caring, competent and affordable services to female and male survivors of sexual abuse and assault in the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan area.
U Have the Right: Resources and information for teens who are victims or at risk of becoming victims of dating violence.
National Resources
Alianza: Dedicated to helping society recognize and eliminate domestic violence in Latino communities and to providing training, resources and research and promote effective policies to support that goal.
Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center: Works with abused American women and children in foreign countries to provide domestic violence and child abuse advocacy, resources and tools.
Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF): A national health policy organization for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AA and NHPI). Their site contains a national directory of domestic violence agencies servicing Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
Faith Trust Institute: An international, multifaith organization working to end sexual and domestic violence.
Family Violence Prevention Fund: Focuses on domestic violence education, prevention and public policy reform.
INCITE!: Radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and our communities of color through direct action, critical dialogue, and grassroots organizing.
National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence: Designs, provides and customizes training and consultation; influences policy, promotes collaboration; and enhances diversity with the goal of ending domestic and sexual violence.
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV): Dedicated to the empowerment of battered women and their children and committed to the elimination of personal and societal violence in the lives of battered women and their children.
National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV): Dedicated to creating a social, political and economic environment in which violence against women no longer exists.
National Hotline: Summons immediate help in English or Spanish, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They also have interpreters available in an additional 139 languages.
National Center for Victims of Torture: Works to heal the wounds of torture on individuals, their families and their communities and to stop torture worldwide.
NCALL: provides training and technical assistance on abuse in later life. Staff members are available for case consultations, reviewing materials on abuse in later life, and providing training and program development. They have also developed a comprehensive national directory of services for victims of abuse in later life that is available on their website.
U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW): Created to implement the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and to lead the national effort to stop domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking of women.
