Family Violence: Prevention and Response

Family violence is a pattern of coercive behaviors — including physical, sexual, and psychological attacks as well as economic coercion — that adults or adolescents use against their intimate partners, children, or elderly relatives.

• Today, it is estimated that one out of four women experiences some form of abuse by an intimate partner or spouse — a statistic that applies to the Jewish and general community.
• Upwards of 2,000 children die each year in the United States as a result of child abuse.
• Only one out of four cases of elder abuse is ever reported, indicating that more than 2 million incidents occur each year in the United States.

UJA-Federation’s Task Force on Family Violence functions as the organized New York Jewish community’s think tank on issues related to violence in the family, providing a forum for identifying unmet service needs, discussion of best practices, formulation of public policy positions, and provision of professional education

Family-Violence Resources

We provide a complete listing in our resource dirtectory of family-violence services offered by UJA-Federation beneficiary agencies and other providers in the Jewish community.  Topics covered in the directory include hotline and crisis intervention, information and referral, counseling and mental health, counseling and mental-health services for seniors, shelters, children’s services, legal, education and training, and advocacy. In addition, the task force provides speakers on family-violence issues, a reference card for rabbis, and sample sermons.

• Family-Violence Resource Directory (PDF)
• Family Violence Reference Card (PDF)