Domestic and Sexual Violence
- Domestic Violence Resources
- Violence Unsilenced Blog
- Project Unbreakable
- The Pennsylvania Protection from Abuse (PFA) Act
- ICADV Webinar Archives
- Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
Coalition Partners
- Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence
- Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
- National Sexual Violence Resource Center
- National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Local Human Service Agency Partners
- United Way of Western Crawford County
- The Center for Family Services
- Crawford County Mental Health Awareness Program
- Crawford County Court Appointed Special Advocates
- The ARC of Crawford County
- The Salvation Army
- Crawford County Drug & Alcohol Executive Commission, Inc.
LGBTQ
- PA LGBTQ Resources
- Anti-Violence Project
- Center for American Progress
- Human Rights Campaign
- LGBT-Friendly Business
Students/Young Adults
- Dating and Abuse
- Empowering Youth to Break the Cycle of Domestic Violence
- Help Is Just a Phone Call Away
- Advice and Stories About Relationships
- The Red Flag Campaign
- Students Against Violence Everywhere
- Covenant House
- How to Talk to Kids About Pornography
Girls/Women
Boys/Men
Safety Apps
Special Needs/Disabilities
- Statistics on Abuse of Individuals with Disabilities
- Disability & Abuse Project
- World Health Organization
- Head Start
- How to Recognize the Signs of Sexual Abuse Among People with Disabilities
- Sex Ed. for Self-Advocates Podcast
- Abuse in Disability Communities
- Addressing Trauma in Individuals with IDD
- Elevatus Training Resources
- Respectability Sexual Education Resources
- The Arc Sexual Abuse Resources
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
- Ascend Group
- A Disability Film Unlike Any Other
- When People with Disabilities Are Abused by Their Caregivers and No One is Around to Help
- Abuse and Exploitation of People with Developmental Disabilities
- Sexuality – Much Needed Information with a Today Twist
Statistics
All statistics were provided by the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) which was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The CDC describes NISVS as an “on-going, nationally representative survey that assesses experiences of sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence among adult women and men in the United States.
In just one year, more than 1.3 million women have been raped. Nearly one in five women have been the victim of rape or attempted rape in their lifetime. Nearly one in two women have experienced other forms of sexual violence. One in five men have experienced a form of sexual violence other than rape in their lifetimes.
One in four women and one in seven men have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner. Women are over four times more likely to be beaten, six times more likely to be slammed against something, and nine times more likely to be hurt by choking or suffocating.
Twelve million people will be victims of physical violence, sexual assault, rape or stalking.
Most of this victimization begins early in life, before age 25. 28% of male rape victims reported being victimized before age 10.
81% of women who experienced rape, stalking or physical violence by an intimate partner reported significant short or long term impacts related to the violence experienced in this relationship such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms and injury while 35% of men report such impacts of their experiences.
