Guest Bloggers: Lynette Renner, PhD, Lindsay Anderson, MSW

This information series includes three blog posts and two practice notes. The goal of this series is to provide information and encourage discussion around children’s exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV), specifically within the child welfare system.

The purpose of this final blog post is to provide additional resources for child welfare workers who desire to expand their knowledge of IPV. Included are also resources that workers may use to guide interventions with children and families who experience IPV.

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence provides support for the expansive Domestic Violence Resource Network (DVRN). Funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the DVRN includes two national resource centers, four special resource centers, three culturally-specific resource centers, a National Domestic Violence Hotline and an LGBTQ Domestic Violence Learning Center. The DVRN works with advocates, educators, government leaders, providers and other community members to promote best practices and strategies to respond to domestic violence.

Below are a few of the resources that are available through this network:

Futures Without Violence: National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence

Includes personalized technical assistance, an online toolkit for advocates and providers as well as a web-based educational series and research bulletin.

National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma and Mental Health

Provides training to support advocates, legal professionals, policymakers and government officials as they work to improve the ways their agencies and systems respond to survivors of domestic violence.

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence

The NRCDV develops collections of educational fact sheets, research papers, curriculum, funding alerts and technical assistance for the advancement of practitioner and client knowledge.

National Domestic Violence Hotline

This hotline provides 24/7 support in over 170 languages to any person impacted in some way by domestic violence throughout the United States. Services include crisis intervention, resourcing, safety plan development and advocacy.