How Can I Get Help With Intimate Partner Or Family Violence?

Intimate Partner and/or Family Violence does not need to be tolerated, excused or endured.

You are not alone.
If you find yourself in an abusive relationship or situation, do everything you can do to protect yourself and get out.
You are worthy of support and can get help to break the cycle.

Here are some resources we hope will help:

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center: Intimate partner violence/abuse recovery tools, grief and peer support groups;
Building The Sacred: An Indigenous Framework For Serving Survivors of Violence;
StrongHearts: Native Helpline;
National Domestic Violence/Intimate Partner Violence hotline. Call 1-800-799-7233 or text 88788;
MHA Nation Victim Hotline and Resources: (701) 627-4171;
South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assualt: What Is Sexual Violence fact sheet;
The National Center for Victims of Crime;
Youth Victims of crimes, see Love is Respect and Break the Cycle;
Women’s Law: Legal help for survivors of abuse, no matter their gender. This organization offers free help and plain-language legal information for victims of abuse, searchable by state
- For example, see North Dakota-specific laws (with tutorial videos) that might be useful for victims and survivors of domestic violence.