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The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence Joins Nationwide Coalitions in Challenging Trump-Vance Administration’s Attempt to Hold Violence Against Women Grants Hostage  

The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence Stands Behind Advocates at Blackburn Center, Calls for Charges to be Dropped

PCADV Kicked Off Domestic Violence Awareness Month with Memorial Vigil at the State Capitol

PCADV Reveals 2023 Fatality Report Findings, Hosts Domestic Violence Awareness Month Memorial Vigil to Remember Victims and Honor Survivors

PCADV Requests Grant Through Emergency Solutions Grant

PCADV Secures $2.5 Million Increase for Domestic Violence Services in FY24-25 State Budget

PCADV Annual Report FY 2020-2021

Gender Wage Gap Fact Sheet 2021

This updated fact sheet covers the impact of COVID on the gender wage gap, the impact of the gender wage gap for survivors of domestic violence, and action steps for individuals and companies/organizations.

Pay Equity Report 2021

This report examines the impact of the gender wage gap in the U.S. and PA as well as the link between the gender wage gap and risk factors for domestic violence. It also explores potential remedies aimed at eliminating the gender wage gap.

PCADV Opposition HB 972

PCADV writes to request you oppose HB 972.

2018 Program Services Statistics

PCADV & local domestic violence programs work tirelessly serving victims of domestic violence and their children. We break down the numbers of how we served our communities in 2018.

Economic Justice & Empowerment Program Outcomes

Domestic violence programs implement various forms of economic justice and empowerment work in their everyday interactions with survivors. This fact-sheet shares the effectiveness of the program since its conception.

Fatality Reports

The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s (PCADV) annual Fatality Report has been the single most reliable source for information about domestic violence-related deaths in Pennsylvania for more than 19 years.

This Mother’s Day, Let’s Honor Moms with Pay Equity: Not Just Brunch

Equal Pay Day: Why Pay Equity Matters for Domestic Violence (DV) Prevention 

NNEDV’s 8th Annual Economic Justice Summit

The Widening Gender Wage Gap

PCADV Kicked Off Domestic Violence Awareness Month with Memorial Vigil at the State Capitol

Advocating for Paid Leave and Affordable Childcare: A Mother’s Day Gift

Critical fund for US domestic violence victims faces major cuts

But even in the most frugal states, “the health of the fund is at such a critical low point right now that even the most artful and conservative budget management … is not sufficient,” Deanna Dyer, policy director of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said. Advocates are calling on state governments to fill the funding gap. Others want to see the fines and fees from non- and deferred-prosecution agreements retroactively recuperated into the Crime Victims Fund.

PCADV on The Commonwealth Beat podcast with Laura LeBeau

10/1/23 – Laura takes on the topic of domestic violence in Pennsylvania, as October is DVAM. She’s joined by Kristen Herman, Director of Prevention Services at PCADV, who highlights the nuances of domestic violence and the critical need for more domestic violence funding.

More PFAs were filled in 2022 than any other year, but does that mean domestic violence is on the rise?

10/8/23 – New data released by Pa. Courts reveals more than 40,000 Protection from Abuse (PFA) orders were petitioned in 2022, a 5% increase from 2021 – more PFA petitions were filed in 2022 than in any other year in Pennsylvania.

Experts share teen domestic violence resources in Lehigh Valley, across Pa. after North Catasauqua double homicide

9/20/23 – PCADV and Turning Point of Lehigh Valley speak out about teen dating violence in the wake of a local tragedy. Hear what they had to say to WFMZ’s Priscilla Liguori .

Domestic violence, always difficult, can be even harder to escape in Philly’s Latino communities

The piece explores the barriers Latino and immigrant survivors encounter and highlights the resources available for support, and included contributions from PCADV and member programs Women Against Abuse, Women in Transition, and Congreso de Latinos Unidos.

Pennsylvania must confront the domestic violence epidemic

“We owe it to survivors to do everything in our power to end domestic violence because the trauma it causes ripples out and can become all-consuming. We may not see it, but millions of Americans carry the trauma of abuse every day.” – Senator Judy Schwank (D-11).

Victim advocates want people to know there is domestic violence help available

Advocates for those experiencing domestic violence say recent high-profile incidents have shown the need to make people more aware of what kind of help is available. Julie Bancroft with the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence said there is not just one place to turn. There are legal options, and groups across the Susquehanna Valley are also able to help. “We want people to know they’re not alone,” she said.

Equal pay for equal work? Not yet, advocates say

Washington, D.C. –- According to The Pennsylvania Commission for Women, each woman in Pennsylvania will lose an average of about $460,000 over the course of her lifetime. Each year, that wage gap is brought into focus on Equal Pay Day — the symbolic date the average woman has to work in order to reach what her white male colleagues were paid in the previous calendar year.

PA Centered Podcast

Kristen Herman, director of prevention at PCADV, joined PCAR’s podcast along with other members of the State Leadership Team (SLT) to discuss more about the Pennsylvania Prevention State Action Plan. The SLT is a multi-disciplinary action team that works to prevent intimate partner violence across the Commonwealth.