About Us
The Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance is Virginia’s leading voice on sexual and intimate partner violence.
Who We Are
We are a non-profit network of survivors, Sexual and Domestic Violence Agencies, and allies working to strengthen how communities across Virginia respond to and prevent sexual and intimate partner violence.
What We Do
As an advocacy organization, we provide the expertise needed to ensure an effective response:
- We train professionals and ensure that Sexual & Domestic Violence Agencies across Virginia meet standards that affirm/safeguard quality responses to survivors.
- Our public policy work builds relationships with key decision makers to strengthen state laws that help make victims safer and hold offenders accountable.
- We share our fresh ideas and effective tools to address root causes of violence. Our prevention work promotes healthy communities and relationships so that violence doesn’t happen in the first place.
As a service provider, we offer people resources for making informed choices:
- We operate the statewide Virginia Statewide Hotline, and PREA Hotline (for incarcerated
individuals who have experienced sexual violence) and develop resources for
Virginia communities. - Through our Project for Empowerment of Survivors (PES), we offer
trauma-informed legal information, advice, and referrals to callers from
Virginia who are experiencing sexual or intimate partner violence, dating
violence, human trafficking and hate crimes.
As a membership organization, we build diverse alliances across the state.
We create an inclusive network of agencies, individuals, task forces and caucuses to speak in a unified and powerful voice.
What We Believe
We have a compelling vision for a world where all of us thrive. Violence is all around us, but it doesn’t have to be that way. A better world is within reach. The time has arrived to make this future happen. We choose all of us to flourish in this radiant new world.
Sustainability Plan
In August 2021, a diverse group of Sexual and Domestic Violence Agency (SDVA) Directors convened to begin discussing the significant and ongoing funding and sustainability challenges faced by Virginia’s 70+ crisis response agencies. Based on those discussions and rigorous data gathering, the group created a 10-Year Movement Sustainability Plan and recommendations to the field. This plan is not a mandate, rather it is a set of strategies, grounded in shared values and collective expertise gathered from advocates and directors across Virginia’s movement to end sexual and domestic violence. It is intended to act as a blueprint towards movement sustainability.