National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs
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The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, or NCAVP, is a national organization dedicated to reducing violence and its impacts on lesbian
, gay
, bisexual and transgender
(LGBT
) individuals in the U.S.A. It was founded in 1995 by Gloria McCauley of BRAVO and Jeffrey Montgomery
of the Triangle Foundation.
NCAVP currently unites over 20 community-based LGBT anti-violence organizations in cities and regions across the country and Toronto, Ontario. NCAVP works to research and document bias and hate crimes, domestic violence
in LGBT relationships, sexual assault and abuse, “pick-up” crimes, and other characteristic forms of violence affecting LGBT individuals, and is dedicated to helping local communities establish, promote and expand anti-violence education, prevention, organizing, advocacy and direct services.
NCAVP also encourages and assists in the development of policies that assist victims of violence, address the perpetrators of violence and change the social atmosphere of violence.
Through its Violence Response Initiative, NCAVP also provides direct-response to critical incidents of anti-LGBT violence around the country and assists local communities, survivors and families in coping with incidents.
Through its Education and Training Initiative, NCAVP also provides support to local communities seeking to create long-term responses to violence through technical assistance, guidance, and information and materials-sharing with the goal of creating more local anti-violence programs across the country.
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
, gay
Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
, bisexual and transgender
Transgender
Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles....
(LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
) individuals in the U.S.A. It was founded in 1995 by Gloria McCauley of BRAVO and Jeffrey Montgomery
Jeffrey Montgomery
Jeffrey Montgomery , is an American lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activist. Montgomery was the founding Executive Director of Triangle Foundation since the organization was founded in 1991 until September 2007.-Political Activism:Montgomery provides commentary and witness on evolving gay...
of the Triangle Foundation.
NCAVP currently unites over 20 community-based LGBT anti-violence organizations in cities and regions across the country and Toronto, Ontario. NCAVP works to research and document bias and hate crimes, domestic violence
Domestic violence
Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence , is broadly defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one or both partners in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation...
in LGBT relationships, sexual assault and abuse, “pick-up” crimes, and other characteristic forms of violence affecting LGBT individuals, and is dedicated to helping local communities establish, promote and expand anti-violence education, prevention, organizing, advocacy and direct services.
NCAVP also encourages and assists in the development of policies that assist victims of violence, address the perpetrators of violence and change the social atmosphere of violence.
Through its Violence Response Initiative, NCAVP also provides direct-response to critical incidents of anti-LGBT violence around the country and assists local communities, survivors and families in coping with incidents.
Through its Education and Training Initiative, NCAVP also provides support to local communities seeking to create long-term responses to violence through technical assistance, guidance, and information and materials-sharing with the goal of creating more local anti-violence programs across the country.
External links
- National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs — official website