800-903-0111 ext. 1
Provides training, technical assistance, and resources through a partnership of three nationally-recognized organizations. PCADV Legal Office oversees the civil component, which addresses civil court access and legal representation of battered women.
Medical Advocacy Project
800-537-2238
Provides training, technical assistance, and comprehensive information designed to strengthen the health care system's response to domestic violence. Health Care Provider Training Evaluation Toolkit is available for download in Word format.
National Online Resource Center On Violence Against Women (VAWnet)
An easily accessible and comprehensive collection of full-text, searchable electronic resources on domestic violence, sexual violence and related issues for state domestic and sexual violence coalitions as well as allied national organizations and individuals working to end violence against women and children.
Online contact form: http://www.vawnet.org/AboutVawnet/Contactus.html
National Resource Center On Domestic Violence (NRC)
800-537-2238
Offers comprehensive information and resources, policy development, and technical assistance to enhance community response to, and prevention of, domestic violence.
PA STOP
888-23-LEGAL
Provides specialized training to police, prosecutors, probation and parole officers, and advocates to improve the criminal justice system's response to domestic violence. Promising Practices discussion forum requires registration and is a closed forum for members of the PODVA Network. If you are a member and would like to participate in these discussions, please contact ldf@pcadv.org to obtain a registration form.
Protection From Abuse Database Project (PFAD)
888-23-LEGAL
Available only to authorized users, Pennsylvania’s Protection From Abuse Database automates the Protection From Abuse process across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Authorized users include Pennsylvania courts and law enforcement.
800-932-4632
Provides training, technical assistance, and resources to advocates and PA Department of Public Welfare county assistance office workers who assist battered women in obtaining services, cash assistance, and employment training from the welfare system.
800-932-4632
Provides specialized training, technical assistance, and resources to develop and enhance the skills of domestic violence program staff throughout PCADV's statewide network.
Women of Color Network (WOCN)
800-537-2238 or 717-545-6400
Created in 1997, the national Women of Color Network (WOCN) promotes and supports networking and leadership development for women of color advocates and activists working in fields of domestic violence, sexual assault and other fields related to violence against women and their families. The Network seeks to enhance the capacity of these advocates and activists to define and develop culturally specific approaches to strengthen the response to various and interconnected modes of violence within their communities. For more information about the WOCN, visit the Women of Color Network Website or download their WOCN Brochure.
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