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Pandemic Emergency Assistance Fund

Survivors: Learn more about how to get help paying for certain expenses related to housing and essential needs

Providers: View the PEAF flowchart to help determine client eligibility and find answers to your questions about the Pandemic Emergency Assistance Fund

 

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Survivor Listening Sessions

In 2021, OPDV conducted the first Survivor Listening Sessions to inform the agency’s efforts to move New York State towards a truly survivor-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive domestic violence services delivery system.

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Calls to the New York State Hotline increased an average of 45% during the COVID 19 pandemic.

In 2019 there were 237,212 domestic violence orders of protection issued in New York State.

Since 2012, the Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence has trained over 20,000 professionals on intimate partner violence.

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