Silent Witness cannot do everything. These trusted organizations can help with what we do not do.
Get help now
- National Domestic Violence Hotline: call 1-800-799-7233, text START to 88788, or chat online. Free, confidential, 24 hours a day. Deaf Hotline videophone: 855-812-1001.
- love is respect: for dating abuse, young people and the adults who care about them. Call 1-866-331-9474 or text LOVEIS to 22522. 24 hours.
- StrongHearts Native Helpline: for American Indians and Alaska Natives. Call 1-844-762-8483 (1-844-7NATIVE).
- WomensLaw.org: plain-language laws for each state, including protective orders. Also in Spanish.
- TechSafety.org: phone, computer and online safety for survivors.
- Find local help (U.S. Department of Justice): national helplines and the domestic violence coalition in each state.
If you are in immediate danger, call 911. See also our Safety page.
Your state
- State and U.S. territory domestic violence coalitions: every state’s coalition in one list. The best first stop for an exhibit group looking for local partners or its state’s own homicide report.
Remember
- Light a Candle and Share a Remembrance: our own remembrance page.
- Remember My Name: the national registry of people killed by domestic violence, started in 1994 by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Ms. magazine and now kept by the Hotline. Families can add a name.
Silent Witness history
- Janet Hagberg’s 1993 commentary on Minnesota Public Radio: co-founder Janet Hagberg on how Silent Witness began.
- “March to End Domestic Violence,” The Progressive Populist, September 1997: the 1993 exhibit in the U.S. Senate’s Russell Building and the road to the 1997 march.
- The Washington Post, October 19, 1997: Toni Locy, “Lives Ended by Domestic Violence Carried Forward at National Rally.” (Available through libraries and the Post archive.)
- The old Silent Witness website on the Internet Archive: for example, “How Silent Witness Began.”
The numbers
- Our Statistics page: what Silent Witness counts, and why.
- Make your own report: look up your own state with the CDC’s free tool.
- CDC WISQARS, National Violent Death Reporting System: the source of our newer state numbers.
- Violence Policy Center, “When Men Murder Women”: a yearly national report from a gun-violence prevention group.
- NNEDV Domestic Violence Counts: a one-day national count of people served by domestic violence programs.
Programs showing results
Silent Witness has always asked: what works? These programs grew out of the same questions.
- Alliance for HOPE International: home of the Family Justice Center Alliance.
- Geiger Institute (Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center): the Domestic Violence High Risk Team model, begun in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 2005.
- Coaching Boys Into Men (Futures Without Violence): high school coaches teach athletes that violence never equals strength.
- A CALL TO MEN: healthy, respectful manhood.
Links checked October 31, 2026. Found a broken link? Please tell us through the Help Silent Witness form.