Intimate Partner Violence

Safety planning is the process of developing a plan that can increase the safety of a person surviving violence and abuse. This 52-page toolkit from Survived and Punished discusses safety planning as informed by abolitionist perspectives.

Carrie shares her experience of sexual assault, from the perspective of someone who has grown up deaf and uses hearing technology.

Why do people stay in abusive and violent relationships? Three survivors address the question in this compilation of clips from the documentary film "Private Violence."

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) includes trans people. Learn how we can respond to intimate partner violence, sexual assault, harassment, and discrimination, whatever our gender identity.

A fact sheet on reproductive coercion, a form of intimate partner violence, to help us better recognize it and respond to it.

This fact sheet provides an overview of coerced debt -- how domestic abusers try to control their partners' finances, and how survivors can challenge this form of abuse through legal means.

This CBS news report documents the link between mass shootings and domestic violence.

This comic book tells the story of Neela and Chris, a high school couple. The book illustrates what intimate partner violence can look like in a teenage relationship.

This poster from Futures Without Violence shares signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships and includes national hotline resource numbers.

This video explains the Power and Control Wheel, a tool that categorizes the many ways people can abuse their partners.

This fact sheet clearly outlines the devastating impacts of guns in domestic abuse and highlights legal gaps that allow perpetrators continued access to guns.

This free mobile app was created by survivors, for survivors, to help with safety planning, decision making, and escape from violent and abusive relationships.