Centers and Clinics
Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Clinic
The Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Clinic (IPVAC) helps provide indigent victims of domestic, dating, and/or sexual violence with the help they need concerning legal, safety, family and health issues.
The first of its kind in the nation, IPVAC is a collaboration between the University of Florida College of Law, College of Medicine, Shands Teaching Hospital and the local non-profit Peaceful Paths Domestic Abuse Network that provides low-income intimate partner violence victims with comprehensive and coordinated legal, medical and social services focusing on victim and family safety. An IPVAC team consists of Certified Legal Interns (CLI's), a social worker, an outreach counselor and various medical staff at UF's outpatient clinics who run a community resource called THE SOURCE: Supporting Healthy Relationships through Medical, Legal, & Educational Advocacy. THE SOURCE holds office hours at Virgil Hawkins Civil Clinic, UF's Pediatrics clinic, and UF's Ob-Gyn clinic.
Certified Legal Interns, specifically trained in domestic violence, will join a holistic team that includes a Shands' social worker and a domestic violence outreach counselor to provide victim survivors access to many of the services they need such as legal counseling, safety planning, support, and service referrals.
What is Intimate Partner Violence?
This project was supported by Grant No.: 2009-WL-AX-0006 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.
Victim Resources:
If you are a victim of intimate partner violence and seek assistance, please call The Source Program at 352-273-0805 for a confidential screening. The screening will take approximately 3-5 minutes. We cannot guarantee that you will qualify for services or that we will be able to take your case. We will not respond to emails or letters. If you are in immediate danger, please dial 911.
Peaceful Paths Domestic Abuse Network: http://www.peacefulpaths.org
Family Violence Prevention Fund: http://www.endabuse.org