Data Collection

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• Family Violence Prevention Fund Reports www.endabuse.org/resources/facts/
• National Center for Injury and Prevention and Control www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/ipvfacts.htm
• VA Department of Health Center for Injury Prevention Sexual Violence Report 2004 (PDF Document)
• VA Department of Health Division of Injury and Violence Prevention www.vahealth.org/civp/sexualviolence/data.asp

VA Department of Health has produced a report on sexual assault victims in Virginia and one on child sexual assault victimization.  Each of the reports may be accessed on the website. Reports are in the form of PDF documents.

• VA Office of the Chief Medical Examiner’s: Family Violence Fatality Review Report 2004 www.vdh.state.va.us/medexam/reports.htm

• VAdata: Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Data Collection System http://216.177.52.229

VAdata is an electronic web-based data collection system for Virginia Domestic Violence Programs and Sexual Assault Crisis Centers (the only one of its kind in the nation). VAdata provides information related to the victims served by those agencies, the services provided and the reported experiences of those victims. The Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance (formerly Virginians Against Domestic Violence and Virginians Aligned Against Sexual Assault) initiated the Project in 1996.

• U.S. Department of Justice: Bureau of Justice Statistics www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/dvsal.htm