Illinois Domestic Violence Hotline
National Domestic Violence Hotline
La Línea Nacional sobre Violencia Doméstica
TTY (800) 787-3224Violence prevention efforts are vital to reduce, and ultimately end, domestic violence. There are many important objectives in this work- for Campus Safety Awareness month (September), ICADV is focusing our prevention efforts on higher education. In this piece, we want to focus on why violence prevention in higher education is so important and greatly needed. …
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When you talk about gender-based violence, you are remiss to ignore the roots that lay beneath it: poverty, racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia. We must move towards positive culture change by addressing all of those pieces because those pieces are the basis for our work, our mission. One of the ways to break down domestic …
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Welcome back to ICADV’s blog! As we relaunch, we are taking the opportunity to discuss our tagline – “One Mission, One Voice” and what it means within this Coalition and within the move to end violence here in Illinois. The Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV/ILCADV) was founded in 1978, the same year the National …
We are in the beginning weeks of our annual legislative session and as is so common these days, we are seeing a smattering of proposals to create protection orders to ward off some circumstances of being harassed, threatened or being in physical danger from another. I am hoping this might help us all to better …
I took the gift of an hour today to join a small Circle of Healing with some colleagues from around the country. The Leader of this circle refers to herself as both a clinician and a shaman. What an incredible mix of skills and knowledge that is so important in this moment in time for …
Why doesn’t she just leave? In my many years of gender based anti-violence work, I have heard this question a zillion times. Everyone asks it. Most of us assume if someone we love hits us we would just turn and walk out the door, never to engage this person again. But the reality is that …
On March 17, the House of Representatives discussed – for hours – and passed the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). This federal legislation that originally passed in 1994 was the first attempt at the federal level to recognize and address the epidemic social tragedy of gender based violence. The latest version – …
Earlier this week was Groundhog Day. That’s either a reminder that we have several more weeks of winter (shadow or not) or that things keep repeating (remember Bill Murray)? Sometimes is does feel like the same old same old every day. Stay home, stay away from family and friends, go out only when absolutely necessary, …
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October is universally recognized as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. ICADV releases a domestic violence homicide report in early October as a reminder of how much work we yet have to do to reduce violence and make our communities safer across the state. After reviewing the Fiscal Year 2020 Illinois Domestic Violence Homicide Report, there were …
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What do people who experience domestic violence tell us they need in order to establish a life free from this violence? In a word – money. Or put another way, enough financial resources to not have to turn back to the person that causes harm in order to have shelter, food and basic needs for …
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