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Domestic Violence

Native women face domestic violence at a rate of 2.5 times higher than any other group.

  • What is Domestic Violence?
  • Hotlines for domestic violence
  • Shelters for Domestic Violence

Native women face domestic violence at a rate of 2.5 times higher than any other group.

What is Domestic Violence? Domestic violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another.

Hotlines for domestic violence

Tribal Shelter/Safe Homes

  • Ama Doo Alchini Bighan, Inc (provides safe homes) | Chinle, Arizona | PH: (928) 674-8314 or (928) 674-8309 Toll Free: (877) 698-0899
  • Hualapai Domestic Violence Prevention Program – Hualapai Tribe – Peach Springs, AZ | PH: (928) 769-2269
  • Mt. Graham Safe House, Inc – Safford, AZ | PH: (928)-348-9104 | Crisis Line: (888) 269-9104
  • On Eagles Wings – Gila River Indian Community | PH: (520) 562-2740 | Crisis Line: (855)-203-5849
  • Tohdenansshai Committee Against Family Abuse – Kayenta, AZ | PH: (928) 697-3635 | Crisis Line: (928) 697-8591
  • White Mountain SAFE House | 24-hour crisis line: (520) 892-5852 | Crisis Line: (800)-224-1315

Shelter in Phoenix and/or to look for a shelter near you

  • Phoenix Metropolitan area: SAFE DV Services | PH: 480-890-3039

To connect to a Victim Advocate

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This project was supported by Grant No. 15JOVW-22-GG-03610-MUMU awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), United States Department of Justice (USDOJ). The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author (s) and do not necessarily reflect thethe views of the OVW, USDOJ.

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Sexual Violence

1 in 3 Native women is sexually assaulted.

  • What is sexual violence?
  • Hotlines/Helplines for sexual violence
  • Other resources for sexual violence
  • SANE/SART in Tribal Communities

1 in 3 Native women is sexually assaulted.

What is sexual violence? Sexual violence means that someone forces or manipulates someone else into unwanted sexual activity without their consent. Reasons someone might not consent include fear, age, illness, disability, and/or influence of alcohol or other drugs. Anyone can experience sexual violence including children, teens, adults, and elders. Those who sexually abuse can be acquaintances, family members, trusted individuals or strangers. *NSVRC.org

Hotlines/Helplines for sexual violence

Other resources for sexual violence

SANE/SART in Tribal Communities

  • Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility | PH: 928-674-7001
  • Tsehootsooi Medical Center – Fort Defiance Indian Hospital | 928-729-8600
  • Hopi Health Care Center | PH: 928-775-0669
  • Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation | PH: 928-607-9089

Stalking

1 in 4 women age 18-24 have been stalked online | Nearly 1/3 of stalkers have stalked before
  • Hotlines/Helplines for stalking
  • Resource for Stalking in Indian Country

1 in 4 women age 18-24 have been stalked online | Nearly 1/3 of stalkers have stalked before

Stalking is a pattern of repeated and unwanted attention, harassment, contact, or any other course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear. Stalking and pressure to know where you are all the time is just NOT healthy Love. Stalking is serious, often violence, and can escalate over time. Stalking is unpredictable and dangerous. No two stalking situations are alike. There are no guarantee that what works for one person will work for another, yet you can take steps to increase your safety.

Hotlines/Helplines for stalking:

Resource for Stalking in Indian Country

Teen Dating Violence

More than 40% of Native children experience two or more acts of violence by the age of 18.
  • Helpline for Teens
  • Resources for Teens

More than 40% of Native children experience two or more acts of violence by the age of 18.

Teen dating violence is relationship abuse that takes place between teens and young adults. Dating violence is defined when one dating partner uses a pattern of abusive behavior or mistreatment toward their partner to manipulate or control them. *StrongHearts Native Helpline

Helpline for Teens

Resources for Teens

Sex Trafficking

Native Americans are victimized by human trafficking at rates higher than that of the general population.
  • What is Sex Trafficking?
  • Hotlines for Sex Trafficking
  • Resources for Sex Trafficking

Native Americans are victimized by human trafficking at rates higher than that of the general population.

In a study conducted at four sites in the United States and Canada, an average of 40% of women involved in sex trafficking identified as an American Indian/Alaska Native or First Nations. *humantrafficking.org

What is Sex Trafficking? The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, soliciting, or advertising of a person for a commercial sex act, in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age.

Hotlines for Sex Trafficking

Resources for Sex Trafficking

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

Murder is the third-leading cause of death among American Indian/Alaska Native Women
  • MMIWG Database of Response Contacts
  • Hotlines
  • Resource for MMIWG

Murder is the third-leading cause of death among American Indian/Alaska Native Women.

May 5th is recognized nationally among our Indigenous Nations as the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). Across Indian Country, we stand in solidarity and honor and commemorate our missing. In particular, we remember Hannah Harris, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, who went missing on July 4, 2013 and later her body was found. She was 21 years old. May 5th was her birthday, and it is on this day that we honor her and so many others.

MMIWG Database of Response Contacts  – Your missing loved one’s location and tribal affiliation will determine who to call and how to get help.  The MMIWG Database of Contacts offers contact information for federal and state authorities, as well as victims’ services programs and other family resources when responding to a case of a missing Native woman.

Hotlines

    Resource for MMIWG

    COVID-19 Resources

    Resources that may assist you, your family, your community and victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence, during COVID-19 Pandemic.
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    SWIWC is providing and sharing with you links to resources that may assist you, your family, your community and victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence, during COVID-19 Pandemic.  As you know this is a worldwide crisis, we appreciate all organizations providing resources and services to everyone.  in case of emergency please call 911.

    SWIWC encourages you to practice the Center for Disease Control (CDC) COVID-19 guidelines for your safety and well-being and to share with your family and others. Also please contact your Tribal Council/Government and/or local community for any updates, services, and guidelines regarding COVID-19.  If you have questions please do not hesitate to contact us at anytime.   Thank you.

    UPDATE: For Arizona tribal advocates and DV/SA Program, are you in need of PPE, namely N95 or KN95 masks?  With the assistance of the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) and ProCure Hope, SWIWC retrieved masks to provide to Arizona tribal advocates and their programs.  Please complete the form HERE for assistance.  If you have questions or for more information please contact SWIWC.  Thank you to NNEDV and ProCure Hope for their assistance.  Thank you.

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    Toolkits for Programs, Advocates and Survivors

    Please follow the links below for helpful toolkits for programs, survivors, and advocates.  These toolkits are provided by great organizations in response to COVID-19.   Thank you to those organizations.    

    SWIWC is providing and sharing with you tribal DV/SA programs who continue to provide victim services during COVID-19.  Most services are provided remotely while also abiding with their local tribal government COVID-19 guidelines.   If you have victims seeking services within the respective tribal communities please use contact information below.     As you know this is a worldwide crisis, we appreciate all organizations providing resources and services to everyone.  

    *In cases of emergency please call 911. 

    Thank you. 

    Ak-Chin Indian Community | Office of the Prosecutor
    Contact: Collette Thomas-Susankewa, Legal Assistance/Victim Advocate
    Email: CSusunkewa@ak-chin.nsn.us

    Colorado River Indian Tribe | Victim Advocate Program
    Contact:  Janice Patch, Victim Advocate
    Email: jpatch@critdoj.com

    Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation | Domestic Violence Program 
    Contact: Carma Abeita, Domestic Violence Victim Advocate
    Email: cabeita@FMYN.ORG

    Fort Mojave Indian Tribe | Domestic Violence Program
    Contact: Charlotte Knox, Program Manager
    Email: charlotteknox@fortmojave.com

    Gila River Indian Community | Crime Victim Services
    Contact: Shanna Stewart, Acting-Crime Victim Services Coordinator | PH: 520-610-3556
    Faron Humeyumptewa, Acting Victim Services Administrator | PH: 520-610-9909

    Hopi Tribe | Hopi Domestic Violence Program
    Contact: Maude Yoyhoeoma, Program Manager or Lydia Werito, Secretary
    Email: LWerito@hopi.nsn.us 

    Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community | Family Advocacy Center
    Contact: PH: 480-362-5425

    Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community | Health and Human Services, Behavioral Health Services
    Contact: Lynda Rivers, Domestic Violence Advocate
    Email: Lynda.Rivers@SRPMIC-nsn.gov

    Tohdenasshai Committee Against Family Abuse, Inc | Navajo Nation
    Contact: Carmelia Blackwater | Phone: 928-697-3635

    Tohono O’odham Nation | Komckud Ki
    Contact: Yuriko Toro, Program Manager
    Email: Yuriko.Toro@tonation-nsn.gov.
    PH: 520-993-2087

    White Mountain Apache Tribe | Domestic Violence Prevention Program
    Contact: Lamberta Gooday
    Email: LambertaGooday@wmat.us

    BIA Victim Specialist Program | Phoenix, AZ 
    Contact: Gwendolyn Kasero,  Victim Specialist
    Email: Gwendolyn.Kasero@bia.gov

    Native Health | Phoenix, AZ
    Contact: Gabrielle Stacey, DVPI Case Manager
    Email: gstacey@nachci.com  | PH: 602-279-5262 ext. 3211

    New Life Center: Mobile Advocacy Center | Glendale, AZ
    Contact: Memory Long Chase, Lead Mobile Advocate
    Email: mlongchase@newlifectr.org 
    PH: 623-332-8900

    The following provides COVID-19 information within the respected Arizona Tribal Communities.