Other Massachusetts Domestic Violence Resources

Safelink
Hotline: (877) 785-2020 voice
(877) 521-2601 TTY
Massachusetts multilingual domestic violence 24-hour hotline

Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project
Crisis Line: (800) 832-1901 Support@gmdvp.org
The Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project (GMDVP) provides community education and direct services to gay, bisexual, and transgender male victims and survivors of domestic violence.

Fenway Violence Recovery Program
(617) 927-6250, or toll-free: (800) 834-3242. VRP@fenwayhealth.org
The VRP provides counseling, support groups, advocacy, and referral services to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) victims of bias crime, domestic violence, sexual assault and police misconduct.
GLBT Domestic Violence Coalition
The GLBTDVC serves as a point of connection and referral to outside organizations and community groups for professional training and GLBT community workshops. The GLBTDVC is a coordinator of regular forums for the greater domestic violence community. The GLBTDVC also serves as a think tank to guide the development of services and to avoid the duplication of services and competition for funding.

Safe Transitions: Domestic Violence Intervention Program
(A program of the Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center). 617.667.8141 Safe Transitions began in 1994 as an effort to better servce patients expereincing abusvie relationships. Safe Transitions offers advocacy, counseling and groups

Emerge
(617) 547-9879, voice answering machine
Services for GLBT batterers.

Jane Doe, Inc.
(617) 248-0922
Massachusetts Coalition of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Programs
Jane Doe Inc. brings together organizations and people committed to ending domestic violence and sexual assault. We create social change by addressing the root causes of this violence, and promote justice, safety and healing for survivors.

Boston Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service
The Lawyer Referral Service is a non-profit public service of the Boston Bar Association designed to provide you with an impartial referral to an attorney in your city or town who handles a specific kind of legal problem.
Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) provides free civil (noncriminal) legal assistance to low-income people in Boston and thirty-one additional cities and towns. The help we offer ranges from legal advice to full case representation, depending on client need.

Local Legal Aid Offices
If you are are elderly or disabled, or if your low income means that you cannot afford private help, your local Massachusetts legal aid program may be able to help you at no charge.

Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)
New England's leading legal rights organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status and gender identity and expression.
GLAD' Legal Information Hotline
Boston Area: (617) 426-1350 New England: 1-800-455-GLAD
Monday - Friday, 1:30 - 4:30pm English and Spanish

The Mass Legal Network provides information about your legal rights as a Massachusetts resident, written in plain English or Spanish.

The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office

The Bristol County District Attorney's Office
Norfolk District Attorney's Office
The Middlesex District Attorney's Office
The Plymouth County District Attorney's Office

National & International LGBT Domestic Violence sites

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP)
240 West 35th StreetSuite 200
New York, New York 10001 Phone: (212) 714-1184 Fax: (212) 714-2627
NCAVP addresses the pervasive problem of violence committed against and within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and HIV-affected communities. NCAVP is a coalition of programs that document and advocate for victims of anti-LGBT and anti-HIV/AIDS violence/harassment, domestic violence, sexual assault, police misconduct and other forms of victimization.
Annual Report on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Domestic Violence
Communities United Against Violence
973 Market St. #500 San Francisco CA 94103
24Hr Crisis Line: (415) 333-HELP E-mail: cuav@xq.com

The New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project
Confidential 24-hour, bilingual crisis hotline (212) 714-1141.
AVP is a 21-year-old victims' services agency providing free counseling, crisis-intervention, and advocacy for survivors of trauma, crime and violence in the city's diverse LGTB and HIV-affected communities.

The Northwest Network
(206) 568-7777
For bisexual, transgender, lesbian & gay survivors of abuse. Sponsors support groups, safety planning, individual counseling, legal advocacy and community organizing for folks of all genders in Seattle, Washington USA and the Puget Sound area.

Are There Differences Between Lesbian and Heterosexual Domestic Violence?
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
(800) 799-SAFE voice (800) 787-3224 TTY
Multilingual hotline, support and nationwide referrals

Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse
The Clearinghouse strives to provide a quick and easy access point to the extensive electronic resources on the topic of violence and abuse available online.

Survivor Project
Portland, OR Dedicated to addressing the needs of intersex and transgender survivors of domestic and sexual violence.