The Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence does not provide crisis services. If you or someone you know needs assistance, please call:

1. Your local program
2. The National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1.800.799.SAFE (7233)
3. 9-1-1 if you are in immediate danger

The Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence offers training, technical assistance and other resources to domestic violence programs across the state. As a leader in the anti-violence movement, we are also a domestic violence resource for policymakers, the media, and the community.

The Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence:

1. Strengthens domestic violence shelters and programs throughout Colorado
   We offer training, resource sharing and problem solving to domestic violence programs that serve survivors of domestic violence, dating violence and stalking. We establish and share best practices based on the principles of safety and empowerment through self-determination.
2. Creates change through our collective voice
   The Coalition works to break the silence surrounding domestic violence. We actively engage in policy advocacy and educate elected officials, state and local government employees and other public agencies about domestic violence. The Coalition actively participates on numerous statewide boards and committees to influence initiatives that affect survivors in Colorado.
3. Engages Colorado in our mission
   The Coalition partners with communities in Colorado to raise awareness about domestic violence. We hold an annual Domestic Violence Awareness Month rally and provide resources to assist victims in finding help and safety.

Our Philosophy

1. Our programs support, involve and include domestic violence victims and survivors of all racial, social, ethnic, religious, and economic groups, ages, sexual orientations and gender identities, and individuals with disabilities.
2. We oppose the use of violence as a means of control.
3. We support equality in relationships and the concept of helping women assume power over their own lives.

Our Mission
The Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence (CCADV) is dedicated to the elimination of domestic violence in all of its forms. We recognize that this requires a fundamental change in society's views of gender and gender roles. Through community education, networking and the empowerment of battered women and children, CCADV serves as a forum for social action and the development of services for battered women and their families by bringing its membership and the community together. CCADV is a diverse network of rural and urban advocates who work together through the coalition to coordinate services, exchange information and work on issues of common concern, thereby providing a unified, statewide environment that will nurture members' local, community-based efforts to stop domestic violence.  We strive toward becoming independent, community based groups in which women are major policy and program decision-makers. We must work toward ending racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, classism, and oppression of all traditionally silenced groups within the domestic violence movement. These oppressions are perpetuated by the same systems that profit by violence against women and children and cannot be separated from the overall mission of the Coalition, for the oppression of one woman is the oppression of all women.  We recognize and support efforts of other agencies and individuals in addressing all issues that help to eliminate oppression and societal support of violence.

View our 2009 annual report here.