Good resource for survivors, but also a good resource for the continuing education of the medical community. Addresses the signs of domestic violence, acknowledges and describes power and control issues (examples include using children as pawns and emotional abuse), breaking the cycle, getting ready to leave (safety planning), and where to find help.

This is the website for the Silent Witness National Initiative which seeks to eliminate, through community based domestic violence reduction efforts, domestic murders in the U.S. by the year 2010. It provides links to other organizations and resources as well as publishes a newsletter and events. This link features a volunteer based court watch program and provides a strategy for implementing the program in your state.

Published in 2005 by New York-based Legal Momentum, this is an excellent legal resource kit.

Presented September 2005 By Publications Committee Of The Florida Court Education Council. Presents summaries of both civil and criminal decisions primarily of the Florida Supreme Court and intermediate appellate courts. These summaries are written, edited, and reviewed quarterly by the judges of the Miami-Dade Domestic Violence Division, the Division Director and the Supervisor of its Case Management Unit. Includes important cases on issues like judicial abuse, attorney’s fees, custody and visitation.

This site contains an enormous amount of information on tribal laws, federal and state laws that pertain to American Indian tribes, Native resources, and reports and papers on domestic violence and Native women.

The Office of Tribal Justice is the primary channel of communication for Native Americans with the Department of Justice, and facilitates the coordination of a broad range of Native American issues to help unify the federal response. This link provides access to reports on Native people and Indian Country, including a report on crime in Indian Country, with research on the prevalence of violence committed against Native women.