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Advocacy in Virginia 2022
Virginia's Sexual and Domestic Violence advocates are our community's front-line responders to survivors of violence. They provide not only crisis response and shelter for survivors, but also assistance to meet financial, housing, employment, and legal services needs.
With the continued struggles brought on by the COVID-19 global pandemic, survivors' need for critical services from sexual and domestic violence agencies did not wane. Despite being short staffed, having difficulty maintaining 24/7 shelter coverage, budget cuts, and changes in community partnerships and resources, advocates remained on the front lines to meet survivors' needs, maintaining virtual support opportunities, ongoing safety planning, including better understanding the safer use of technology, and building better relationships with community partners.
Action Alliance staff chose to take a more in depth look at the impact of services on the experiences of survivors since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Take a look at the summary report that demonstrates the continued need for the vital advocacy services provided by sexual and domestic violence advocates around the commonwealth.
Advocacy in Virginia 2023
Virginia's Sexual and Domestic Violence advocates are our community's front-line responders to survivors of violence. They provide not only crisis response and shelter for survivors, but also assistance to meet financial, housing, employment, and legal services needs.
With the continued struggles brought on by the COVID-19 global pandemic, survivors' need for critical services from sexual and domestic violence agencies did not wane. Despite being short staffed, having difficulty maintaining 24/7 shelter coverage, budget cuts, and changes in community partnerships and resources, advocates remained on the front lines to meet survivors' needs, maintaining virtual support opportunities, ongoing safety planning, including better understanding the safer use of technology, and building better relationships with community partners.
Again in 2023, Action Alliance staff chose to take a more in depth look at the impact of services on the experiences of survivors as agencies continue to right themselves due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Take a look at the summary report that demonstrates the continued need for the vital advocacy services provided by sexual and domestic violence advocates around the Commonwealth.
Advocacy in Virginia 2024
Each year, we compile and publish an annual Advocacy Data Report that highlights the impact of our statewide network of sexual and domestic violence agencies. These reports provide a comprehensive look at the services delivered, the needs of survivors, and emerging trends in the movement to end sexual and domestic violence in the Commonwealth. By tracking this data, we help inform policy, guide funding decisions, and strengthen our collective advocacy for a Virginia where all people are safe, seen, and supported.
To download the most recent report from 2024, click this link.
Advocacy in Virginia 2025
Each year, we compile and publish our Advocacy in Virginia report, which highlights the impact of our statewide network of sexual and domestic violence agencies. These reports provide a comprehensive look at the services delivered, the needs of survivors, and emerging trends in the movement to end sexual and domestic violence in the Commonwealth. By tracking this data, we help inform policy, guide funding decisions, and strengthen our collective advocacy for a Virginia where all people are safe, seen, and supported.
The Survivor Advocacy in Virginia 2025 report, our latest look at survivor and advocacy services in the Commonwealth, released July 13, 2026, documents a year of lifesaving work delivered under mounting financial strain. In 2025, Virginia’s 70+ Sexual and Domestic Violence Agencies served 27,898 adults and children, answered 70,136 hotline contacts, provided 229,020 nights of emergency shelter, and delivered 309,922 hours of crisis response and advocacy, even as federal VOCA funding fell by 54% since State Fiscal Year 2020.
Allies in the Struggle: Intersectional work as a trauma-informed response and prevention
This webinar, originally broacast in 2015 and presented by the Action Alliance's own Kate McCord, was designed for aspiring white allies interested in deepening their understanding of the connections between racial justice work and domestic and sexual violence intervention and prevention work. Topics included: how disparities created by institutional and systemic expressions of racism may affect survivors of color, why an intersectional approach is integral to a trauma-informed response and building trauma-informed prevention programs, and specific examples of how the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance has integrated a racial justice lens into various aspects of our work.
