Building Power Beyond Survival
Why Systems Change Matters
Violence does not happen in isolation.
Black survivors often encounter barriers in housing, healthcare, education, employment, and public systems that make healing and safety more difficult. Black Women Revolt Against Domestic Violence works alongside survivors to transform the conditions that allow violence to persist. Through survivor leadership, community organizing, prevention education, and policy advocacy, we are building a future where Black women and girls can live free from violence.
Partner With Us
Many organizations stop at crisis response.
BWRADV supports survivors in healing and then creates pathways for leadership, organizing, advocacy, and collective action that reshape the systems impacting Black communities.
Our Vision
Black Women Revolt Against Domestic Violence envisions a future where women, children, families, and communities live free from domestic violence, experience equitable access to culturally responsive services, and possess the power, resources, and leadership necessary to thrive. We believe that ending domestic violence requires more than crisis intervention. It requires healing individuals, strengthening families, empowering communities, transforming institutions, and dismantling the systems that allow violence and inequity to persist.
Our Belief
Domestic violence is not simply an individual or family issue. It is a public health issue, a public safety issue, a racial equity issue, and a community issue that is shaped by historical trauma, systemic racism, gender inequities, economic instability, housing insecurity, and barriers to culturally responsive care.
We believe that when all survivors receive culturally affirming support, opportunities to heal, pathways to leadership, and the tools to organize their communities, they become powerful agents of change who help transform systems for future generations.
Our Theory of Change
If Black Women Revolt Against Domestic Violence provides culturally responsive healing services, develops survivor and community leadership, organizes residents around community solutions, advocates for equitable policies, and works to transform systems that perpetuate violence and inequity, then survivors and their families will experience increased safety, improved health and economic outcomes, stronger social connections, greater civic leadership, and sustainable freedom from violence. As communities become more informed, connected, and empowered, the intergenerational cycle of domestic violence can be interrupted, creating healthier families and more equitable communities for generations to come.
Our Theory of Change
Our Systems Change Model
Policy
Black Women Revolt Against DV continues to influence policy as we advocate on behalf of survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault. We are proud of our work to co-sponsor SB1228 last year in conjunction with Senator Scott Wiener and Former District Attorney, Chesa Boudin.
This bill was passed in May 2022. Rape Survivors DNA Kits aka S.A.R.T. Kits will no longer be used against them for prosecution in unrelated criminal cases. This law assures that one of the most intimate and horrific exams will remain confidential and its findings will exclusively be used to identify and prosecute the survivors attacker.
For more information, you may reach us at 1.888.260.1498 or info@blackwomenrevolt.org
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