What is Domestic Violence? 

 

Domestic violence is everyone’s responsibility. It is a gendered crime – with an unequal impact on girls and women. Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior in a relationship used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over the other partner. Domestic violence can be actions or threats of actions that influence or control another person’s behavior and decisions and are meant to intimidate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, coerce, blame, or injure.

 

Domestic Violence Resources

• Wyoming Division of Victim Services 

• Wyoming Center for Legal Aid

• Wyoming Health Council

• Strong Families Strong Wyoming 

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• Alianza:  National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence

• Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence

• Battered Women’s Justice Project and Civil Justice Center

• Casa de Esperanza

• Forge

• Futures Without Violence

• Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community

• Love is Respect

• Mending the Sacred Hoop

• National Center for Victims of Crime

• National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence

• National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health

• National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women

• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

• National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs

• National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges

• National Domestic Violence Hotline

• National Family Justice Center Alliance

• National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center

• National Network to End Domestic Violence

• National Resource Center on Domestic Violence

• No More

• Polaris Project

• VAWnet: National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women

• Vera Institute of Justice Disability Resources