Safety Alert
Computer use can be monitored and is impossible to completely clear. If you are afraid your internet and/or computer usage might be monitored, please use a safer computer, call your local hotline, and/or call the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
Ten Years of Saving Lives
The special history of the Hotline is bipartisan and deeply moving. In 1994, Senator Joseph R. Biden and Senator Orrin G. Hatch co-authored historic legislation, the Violence Against Women Act, and the U.S. Congress took an unprecedented step in response to our nation’s tragically high prevalence of domestic violence by enacting the legislation and creating the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
Since then, the Hotline has become the Vital Link to Safety for over 1.8 million families, responding to more than 19,500 calls each month. As more and more national partners publish the Hotline number in English and Spanish, call volume continues to soar.
As a 10th Anniversary Initiative, the Hotline has organized the DECADE FOR CHANGE Summit, which will bring together leaders from key sectors of society to outline a 10-year initiative to measurably reduce domestic violence by 2017. Join with us in becoming a part of the solution. The Called to Make a Difference Campaign calls on you, me and America to step up and seek an end to domestic violence. Domestic violence is preventable. Together we will make a difference.
Sheryl Cates
Chief Executive Officer
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Download the CALLED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE case statement