South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Below you will find news and updates from both SCCADVASA and our member organizations. You will also find policy action alerts, legislative updates, monthly newsletters, op-eds, press releases and more.
A report published by the Violence Policy Center (VPC) analyzing 2022 homicide data underscores South Carolina’s history of deadly violence against women with the state’s rate of female victims killed by males continuing to top the national average. The South Carolina data is part of a VPC nationwide study “When Men Murder Women: An Analysis […]
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This morning’s Supreme Court decision reversing US v Rahimi, a ruling from the Fifth Circuit that struck down three decades of federal law banning abusers under a domestic violence protective order from owning a gun, will protect the lives of women across America experiencing intimate partner violence. Every month in the United States, an average […]
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SCCADVASA works proactively to increase the awareness of how laws and policies impact the lives and healing of survivors of sexual and domestic violence. Our policy focus areas are determined by our member organizations’ experience of emerging and ongoing needs at the community level. SCCADVASA strives to make sure these needs are heard, understood, and acted […]
ViewSCCADVASA works proactively to increase the awareness of how laws and policies impact the lives and healing of survivors of sexual and domestic violence. Our policy focus areas are determined by our member organizations’ experience of emerging and ongoing needs at the community level. SCCADVASA strives to make sure these needs are heard, understood, and acted […]
ViewSCCADVASA works proactively to increase the awareness of how laws and policies impact the lives and healing of survivors of sexual and domestic violence. Our policy focus areas are determined by our member organizations’ experience of emerging and ongoing needs at the community level. SCCADVASA strives to make sure these needs are heard, understood, and acted […]
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SCCADVASA’s Executive Director, Sara Barber, appeared this week on “Health Matters,” a weekly radio talkshow with former state Senator Joel Lourie, to discuss the prevalence of domestic violence, legislative priorities, and the role of SCCADVASA as the collective voice promoting the prevention of domestic violence and sexual assault in South Carolina.
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