State Domestic Violence Projects

PCADV administers numerous specialized projects and collaborations designed to enhance safety and improve systems responses throughout Pennsylvania for domestic violence victims and their children.

The Civil Legal Representation (CLR) Project enhances access to civil legal assistance and justice for victims of domestic violence. CLR attorneys assist survivors´ attorneys in obtaining court intervention that enhances a victim´s self-sufficiency, while also concentrating on her safety needs.

The Prevention of Dating Violence Among Runaway & Homeless Youth project involves runaway and homeless youth programs and domestic violence programs throughout Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia.

Enhancing Services for Children & Youth Exposed to Domestic Violence program is designed to enhance intervention services that are focused on strengthening the abused parent-child relationship, demonstrated to be beneficial in addressing the trauma associated with a childs exposure to a batterer.

Medical Advocacy Project coordinates collaborative partnerships of community-based domestic violence programs and local health care systems/medical facilities to promote health care-based identification of domestic violence victims seeking health care services or treatment and the provision of support, information, education, resources and follow-up services within the health care setting.

PA Stop Violence Against Women and Judicial Training provides training and technical assistance to the 46 STOP Grant counties in Pennsylvania, domestic violence advocates around the Commonwealth, and to judges and court personnel.

Protection From Abuse Database (PFAD) is a computer archival system for the electronic entry of all pleadings and orders relating to Protection From Abuse (PFA) Act cases in Pennsylvania. Records from PFAD are immediately available 24 hours a day/365 days a year to authorized users via a secured Internet Web site.

The Protection Order Enforcement Project is a statewide initiative designed to provide training and technical assistance to counties throughout Pennsylvania in an effort to ensure that protection orders are enforced consistent with Pennsylvania law.

The Welfare Project is a partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW) to implement federal legislation mandating county welfare offices