The Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) is America's first and foremost national organization entirely dedicated to preventing family violence. We are globally acknowledged as the innovative leader in the field of family violence prevention. Since 1980 we have developed programs and protocols that have made a real difference in the lives of battered women across the country.

We believe that family violence - and all of its consequences - can be prevented.

How? Through the work of the Family Violence Prevention Fund.

We:

• Improve Healthcare Response: Through the FVPF's national healthcare leadership, family violence is beginning to be taken as seriously as other public health priorities, such as tobacco use, drug abuse and HIV infection. FVPF has provided training and information to thousands of health care workers both nationally and globally to screen for domestic violence.
• Train Judges: Because of the FVPF's award-winning judicial training program, which equips judges to educate and train their peers, courts have begun to treat family violence as a serious criminal matter. FVPF has trained hundreds of Judges across the nation about how their decisions can help prevent injuries and death.
• Protect Children: Our "young family" intervention program pioneers non-traditional alliances among public and private social service providers, such as early childhood development and day-care facilities, child abuse and domestic violence agencies, fatherhood programs, etc. Our exciting new Envision project(link to Envision page) will be the first national initiative to look at the interconnectedness of child abuse, youth violence and domestic violence.
• Promote Workplace Policies: At work today, battered women can find life-saving support because the FVPF has pursued partnerships with employers and unions throughout the country to ensure that employment practices respond to the special needs of battered women. FVPF workplace materials have been implemented in thousands of workplaces nationwide.
• Ease the Plight of Battered Immigrant Women: The FVPF helped craft and pass landmark legislation to protect battered immigrant women. The FVPF also co-founded a national support network for immigrant women, and we continue to cultivate resources to safeguard immigrant women and their children.
• International: With a grant from the Ford Foundation, FVPF has developed partnerships with advocates working to eradicate domestic violence in four countries: Russia, India, China and Mexico. Based on a public health model of intervention, FVPF has worked with health care clinics in all four countries. Programs implemented in Russia have been replicated in ten regions as a result of our efforts.
• Educate the Public: The FVPF produced the first national family violence mulit-media campaign, called "There's No Excuse for Domestic Violence." We have educated millions of Americans about the seriousness of family violence and the role we all can play in stopping it. This Fall we launch our second national campaign, “Teach Early.” This campaign will again break new ground by engaging men to talk to their sons and the young men in their lives about preventing domestic violence.
• Advocate Better Public Policy: Working closely with Administration policymakers and Congress over the years, the FVPF has helped guide millions of federal dollars into local communities for domestic violence shelters, services, and prevention programs.

Help us continue to innovate, to expand and to improve prevention efforts.

Join the movement to end abuse by making a tax-deductible donation to the Family Violence Prevention Fund today!