Resources
Support for Survivors
New York State Domestic Violence Program Directory to find domestic violence service programs across the state.
NYS Domestic Violence 24 Hour Confidential Hotline: 1-800-942-6906, or 711 for Deaf or Hard of Hearing – access to advocates in 170 languages through interpreter services for crisis help, safety planning, emotional support, and help finding resources in your area including safe shelter, advocacy, counseling, and legal assistance.
New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NYSCADV).
National Domestic Violence 24 Hour Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 or 1-800-787-3224 (TTY).
National Deaf Hotline Videophone (9am-5pm M-F): 1-855-812-1001 or deafhelp@thehotline.org.
National Defense Center for Criminalized Survivors – The Defense Center accepts collect calls from survivors who are incarcerated at between 9am and 5pm EST: (267) 876-7027.
Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA)
If you or someone you know is applying for DVSJA or would like to learn more about the Act, check out SJP’s DVSJA Resource Guide.
If you are an attorney or part of a legal team working on DVSJA cases, contact the DVSJA Attorney Support Project and check out these DVSJA resources and practice guides.
Request an SJP training about the DVSJA.
Mass Incarceration and Gender-Based Violence
Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, 2016.
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation, Beth Richie, 2012.
From Protection to Punishment: Post-Conviction Barriers to Justice for Domestic Violence Survivor-Defendants in New York State, Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School and Women in Prison Project of the Correctional Association of New York, 2011.
Sexual Abuse of Women in United States Prisons: A Modern Corollary of Slavery, Brenda Smith, 2005.
Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered, Black Women, Beth Richie, 1996.
Emerging Filmmakers
The Brownsville Initiative – Kashif’s Community-Based Filmmaking Program.
Writing Dope Shorts – Kashif’s Screening Writing Workshops.