Related Websites

• Avalon: A Center for Women and Children
  Avalon is committed to intervening in and reducing the incidence of domestic violence and sexual assault. In order to achieve this mission, Avalon offers shelter, advocacy, education and support to survivors and fosters awareness and prevention by educating the community.
  
  

• Choose Respect
  According to the CDC, one out of four 8th and 9th graders reports being a victim of dating violence. Even more startling, many adolescents do not grasp the seriousness of dating abuse. This web site offers many resources for adolescents, parents, and schoolteachers to teach respect and healthy relationships. 
  
  
• The Community Giving Resource
  The Community Giving Resource (CGR) guides family foundations and individual donors through the complexities of philanthropic giving in struggling neighborhoods and communities.
  
  
• Eastern Shore Coalition Against Domestic Violence 
  ESCADV is a non-profit, tax-exempt corporation. It was established in May, 1983 to help address the problem of domestic violence on the Shore. The ESCADV is a two-county coalition of community organizations, groups and individuals who are deeply concerned about the serious problem of family violence. Shelter for abused families is available. 
  
  
• Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF)
  FVPF is a national non-profit organization dedicated to the elimination (prevention) of domestic violence. The goal of the FVPF is to create a society where domestic violence is not acceptable, tolerated nor excused. To achieve this goal, the FVPF is committed to mobilizing concerned individuals, allied professionals, women's rights, civil rights, and other social justice organizations, and children's groups to join the campaign to end domestic violence against all women and children through public education/prevention campaigns, public policy reform, model training, advocacy programs, and organizing.
  
  

• Greater Virginia Continuum of Care Council
  GVPCCC is the recognized forum for collaboratively addressing critical health and human service issues to strengthen our communities.
  
  

• Guidestar
  Guidestar is the donor’s guide to the non-profit universe. Just type in "Transitions Family Violence Services" to see complete financials and other information.
  
  
• Hampton Healthy Families Partnership
  Hampton Healthy Families Partnership is a team effort in which city and community agencies have joined together with public and private organizations such as hospitals, restaurants, businesses, and banks to help the families in our community become healthy, happy, and self sufficient. Through home visitation, parenting classes, newsletters, library resource centers, and a variety of other programs, the Partnership works to ensure that every child in Hampton is born healthy and enters schools ready to learn.
  
  
• Help and Emergency Response, Inc. (H.E.R.) Shelter – Portsmouth, VA
  The purpose of Help and Emergency Response, Inc. is to provide shelter and to engage in dedicated efforts to eliminate domestic violence. 
  
  
• Laurel Shelter – Gloucester, VA
  The Laurel Shelter provides a safe haven and services for female victims of domestic violence and their children.
  
  
• Leave a Legacy® Hampton Roads
  Leave A Legacy Hampton Roads is part of an ongoing program of the National Committee on Planned Giving that encourages people from all walks of life to make gifts from their estates to the nonprofit organizations of their choice.
  
  
• MyGurlStuff.com
  The all “gurl” staff is based in Virginia Beach. They are dedicated to going out into the community and finding information about the “Tween” and Teen girls that are making the headlines in their schools, on the field, or in the community.
  
  
• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
  NCADV is dedicated to the empowerment of battered women and their children and therefore is committed to the elimination of personal and societal violence in the lives of battered women and their children.
  
  
• National Domestic Violence Hotline
  Read personal stories, learn about funding and advocacy efforts and see statistics about domestic violence in America.
  
  
• National Task Force to End Violence Against Women
  The National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women was central to the crafting and passage of the landmark Violence Against Women Act (VAWA 1994) and the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA 2000) Reauthorization bill.
  
  
• One in Three
  The One in Three© campaign is working to get information and awareness about the significant problem of violence against women to people and communities around the world. The campaign is supporting the work of individual domestic and sexual violence programs and helping programs raise funds to continue the work that is needed to end violence against women.
  
  

• Peninsula Worklink
  The Peninsula Worklink/Greater Peninsula Workforce Investment Board 's mission is to bring business, government, education, and labor together to collaborate and to invest in the Peninsula Region's future by linking education and training to the workplace of today and tomorrow.
  
  

• Samaritan House – Virginia Beach, VA
  Samaritan House is a non-profit organization that offers family safety while helping adults and their children regain control of their lives. They provide a range of services for those who have been victims of domestic violence and homeless families. Samaritan House is more than a temporary safe place to call home; it is a place to begin a new and better life.
  
  

• Stop Family Violence
  Stop Family Violence's mission is to organize and amplify our nation's collective voice against family violence. They act as a catalyst for social change - empowering people to take action at the local, state and national level to ensure safety, justice, accountability and healing for people whose lives are affected by violent relationships. Their goal is family peace.
  
• United Way of the Virginia Peninsula
  Transitions Family Violence Services is an agency of the United Way of the Virginia Peninsula. Learn about United Way’s outstanding work in support of human services in our region.
  
  
• Virginia Attorney General’s Office of Domestic Violence Initiatives
  
  
• Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services
  
  
• Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance 
  VSDVAA is the state coalition of people and agencies committed to ending sexual and domestic violence. Transitions Family Violence Services is fully certified by VSDVAA. 
  
  
• WomensLaw.org
  The Mission of WomensLaw.org is to provide easy-to-understand legal information and resources to women living with or escaping domestic violence. By reaching out through the Internet, they empower women and girls to lead independent and productive lives, free from abuse.
  
  
• YWCA South Hampton Roads
  The YWCA is the oldest and largest multicultural women's organization in the world. Their mission is to eliminate racism and empower women. We provide safe places for women and girls, build strong women leaders, and advocate for women's rights and civil rights in Congress.