This webinar will focus on developing your understanding of how post-TPO follow up matters are as vital as TPOs themselves for survivors’ ability to stay separate and free from their abusers, and how lawyers can stand with survivors beyond their TPO hearing.

The Courts are beginning to re-open. As COVID-19 disproportionately affects Black communities throughout the country, access to legal advocacy is more important than ever.

Whether quarantining with an abuser or faced with economic insecurity during the COVID-19 crisis, survivors of intimate partner abuse are facing remarkable challenges.

On May 11, NPR’s Marketplace featured the AVLF Saturday Lawyer Program, discussing how we’ve adapted our services to low-income Atlantans during the COVID-19 crisis.

The COVID-19 crisis puts survivors of intimate partner abuse in great danger. Here’s why Boyd Collar Nolen Tuggle & Roddenbery’s commitment is a game-changer.

“Stay home.” “Stay safe.” These are the tag lines to every conversation I have with friends, with colleagues, with loved ones. But for many Atlantans, home is anything but safe.

Abusers can install spyware on survivors’ cell phones, allowing them to read their texts, listen in on phone calls, and track their every move. Prepaid cell phones and security cameras can help keep survivors safe, and we asked the Community Foundation to help.

In our final free webinar of 2019, our Safe and Stable Families team will give you a behind-the-scenes look at our new mobile advocacy program, Standing with Survivors.

This October, our Safe and Stable Families team spent Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2019 honoring survivors and sharing resources with the community.

By the time a survivor of intimate partner abuse seeks legal help at the Fulton County Courthouse, they’ve typically reached the pinnacle of a crisis. 

Read Hon. Christopher Brasher’s remarks at the 2019 Guardian ad Litem Benefit.

Despite the prevalence of intimate partner abuse in the United States, there remain many misconceptions about intimate partner abuse and domestic violence.