Partners

We are working in partnership with a wide range of private, public and non-profit organizations who share our common goal. Our commitment to coalition building comes from our firmly held belief that we are stronger together, weaker apart. This is true of our work on the rape kit backlog. We are honored to partner with law enforcement, advocates, sexual assault organizations, survivors, and policymakers to end the rape kit backlog.

Many national and state organizations that have worked for years to end the rape kit backlog, including the National Association to End Sexual Violence (NAESV), the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network, (RAINN), the National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC), Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Family Violence Prevention Fund. Local and state groups have done tremendous advocacy as well, especially Peace Over Violence, the Santa Monica Rape Crisis Treatment Center, and the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Their efforts have resulted in tremendous and important changes in state and federal laws regarding rape kits. Their long-term commitment to the cause guides our work as we move advocate for continued rape kit reform. Because of the advocacy of our partner organizations, much has changed over the past fifteen years in terms of federal policy towards rape kit reform.

		Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) For more than three decades, the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) has worked to end violence against women and children around the world. Instrumental in developing the landmark Violence Against Women Act passed by Congress in 1994, the FVPF has continued to break new ground by reaching new audiences including men and youth, promoting leadership within communities to ensure that violence prevention efforts become self-sustaining, and transforming the way health care providers, police, judges, employers and others address violence. Learn more at www.endabuse.org
		Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch is one of the world's leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. By focusing international attention where human rights are violated, we give voice to the oppressed and hold oppressors accountable for their crimes. Our rigorous, objective investigations and strategic, targeted advocacy build intense pressure for action and raise the cost of human rights abuse. For 30 years, Human Rights Watch has worked tenaciously to lay the legal and moral groundwork for deep-rooted change and has fought to bring greater justice and security to people around the world. Human Rights Watch is one of the world's leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. By focusing international attention where human rights are violated, we give voice to the oppressed and hold oppressors accountable for their crimes. Our rigorous, objective investigations and strategic, targeted advocacy build intense pressure for action and raise the cost of human rights abuse. For 30 years, Human Rights Watch has worked tenaciously to lay the legal and moral groundwork for deep-rooted change and has fought to bring greater justice and security to people around the world. Learn more at www.hrw.org
		National Alliance to End Sexual Violence (NAESV) The purpose of the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence (NAESV) is to work to end sexual violence and ensure services for victims. The NAESV Board of Directors consists of leaders of state sexual assault coalitions and national law, policy, and tribal experts who promote the organization's mission to advance and strengthen public policy on behalf of state coalitions, individuals, and other entities working to end sexual violence. Most importantly, the NAESV advocates on behalf of the victim/survivors—women, children and men—who have needlessly suffered the serious trauma of sexual violence and envisions a world free from sexual violence. Learn more at www.naesv.org
		National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC) The National Center for Victims of Crime is the nation's leading resource and advocacy organization for crime victims and those who serve them. Since its inception in 1985, the National Center has worked with grassroots organizations and criminal justice agencies throughout the United States serving millions of crime victims. Learn more at www.ncvc.org
		Peace Over Violence Peace Over Violence is a social service agency formerly called Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women, or LACAAW. We changed our name at our 35th anniversary in 2006 to reflect the growing range of programs we offer, which have expanded beyond one on one intervention in sexual assaults and domestic abuse, toward one by one prevention of youth violence and child abuse, while running a range of specialized services reaching underserved groups like Latinas, Deaf, Disabled and Elder, LGBTQ, and Youth. Learn more at www.peaceoverviolence.org
		Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1.800.656.4673 and the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline at rainn.org, and publicizes the hotline's free, confidential services; educates the public about sexual assault; and leads national efforts to prevent sexual assault, improve services to victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice. Learn more at www.rainn.org