Department of Family Services Alert:
The Department of Family Services' Domestic and Sexual Violence Services offers compassionate and comprehensive state-accredited programs for adults, teens, and children who have been impacted by domestic and sexual violence, stalking, and human trafficking.
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.
Interested in more articles about Domestic and Sexual Violence programs, services and resources? Check out the DSVS news page or variety of helpful topics.
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.
Online (or digital) dating abuse--when a partner uses technology, such as a smartphone, social media, a tracking app, or another form of technology, to threaten, harass, and intimidate the person they're dating—is becoming more common. In fact, abuse prevention advocates report a significant uptick in the number of people, particularly teenage girls, who describe digital dating abuse in their relationships. Learn what digital abuse looks like and how to stay safe.
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.
For 400 years, enslaved Black folks were separated (read: sold) from parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Marriages between enslaved people weren’t legal and couples had no protection from the abuses and restrictions imposed on them by slaveowners. Fast forward 150 years, and we have a society that—thanks to generational trauma, Hollywood, social media, and hot takes—thinks there’s no such thing as Black love and intact Black families are a myth. But what’s the reality?
On this episode of Unscripted, host Kendra Lee sits down with Abrishiel Lockett, children’s counselor with Domestic and Sexual Violence Services; Keisha Strand, from Fairfax County’s Planning and Development agency; and Bennie Herron, Father Engagement supervisor in the Children Youth and Families division; to discuss the truth about Black love and Black families.
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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.
All services are confidential, free, and provided regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
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