Organization profile

Organization profile

The Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA) conducts research on family violence and provides information and resources on violence prevention through a variety of funded projects including the Electronic Clearinghouse (http://www.mincava.umn.edu), the VAWnet Applied Research Forum (http://www.vawnet.org), Violence Against Women Online Resources (http://www.vaw.umn.edu), Child Exposure to Domestic Violence Project (http://www.mincava.umn.edu/link), the Hague Domestic Violence Project (http://www.haguedv.org/), and the Honor Our Voices project (www.honorourvoices.org). The Center, established in 1994 by a grant authorized by the Minnesota Legislature, is a program of the School of Social Work, an academic unit of the College of Education and Human Development.