Domestic and Sexual Violence 24-Hour Hotline 703-360-7273; TTY 711
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SAFETY ALERT – If you are in danger, call or text 911.
Free, short-term individual and family counseling services are now available via teletherapy. Call us at 703-324-5730 and choose the option for Counseling Services. The DSVS 24-hour hotline is still available 703-360-7273.
National Resources
State Resources
Local Resources
Domestic Violence Action Center (DVAC)
Historic Courthouse
4000 Chain Bridge Road, Suite 2702
Fairfax, VA 22030
703-246-4573, Email
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. (By appointment only from 4:30-7 p.m.)
Fairfax County Community Services Room
Tysons Corner Center
1961 Chain Bridge Road (2nd Level outside of Nordstrom)
McLean, VA 22102
703-246-5995, Email
Wednesdays and Fridays 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m.
(If you arrive before 10 a.m., please use Parking Deck A, located across from the Michael Kors store. Enter the mall through the entrance situated between Michael Kors and Maman Joon.)
Herndon Neighborhood Resource Center
1086 Elden Street
Herndon, VA 20170
Email
Wednesdays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Herndon Connections for Hope
1141 Elden Street, Suite 200
Herndon, VA 20170
Email
Tuesdays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
InovaCares Clinic for Women and Children
6400 Arlington Boulevard
Falls Church, VA 22042
Email
Mondays and Wednesday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Pennino Building
12011 Government Center Parkway, Suite 740
Fairfax County, VA 22035
703-324-5730, Email
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Denim Day was created in 1999 to bring awareness to victim blaming and the destructive myths that surround sexual violence. The day asks everyone—from community members and elected officials to businesspeople and students—to make a social statement with their fashion by wearing jeans on this day as a visible means of protest against sexual violence misconceptions.
Reproductive coercion--when your partner won’t let you see your doctor, sabotages your birth control, forces you to have sex without protection, or threatens your pregnancy--is a type of sexual violence. Learn more about what reproductive coercion looks like and where you can go for support if you’re being impacted by it.
Unscripted: Conversations about Sexual and Domestic Violence is a podcast featuring employees and subject matter experts from Domestic and Sexual Violence Services and partner organizations discussing all aspects of interpersonal violence, plus solutions and resources for support for residents of Fairfax County.
An advocate’s role is to provide information about options to survivors, help them process decisions, let them know about available resources, and explain and steer them through the multiple—often complicated—systems designed to get them through their experience with interpersonal violence and on the path to healing. Advocates bear witness to domestic and sexual violence, human trafficking, and stalking--starting with believing survivors. But the need for and importance of advocates seems to be little understood outside the offices of the people who do this work.
On this episode of Unscripted, host Kendra Lee sits down with Vanessa Cullers and Tianna Hairs-Hughes, both victim advocates in the Domestic Violence Action Center (DVAC) and Jonathan Yglesias, policy director at the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance, to discuss the crucial role advocates play in supporting survivors of interpersonal violence.
Domestic and Sexual Violence Services works with communities to transform society’s response to domestic violence, sexual violence, human trafficking, and stalking by challenging oppression, collaborating to inform policy, and providing everybody impacted by violence with equitable access to trauma-informed support, advocacy, education, and a space for healing. Check out this article about the value of working with Fairfax County Domestic and Sexual Violence Division.
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