The trauma caused by domestic violence can last a lifetime, but interventions can be highly effective in helping adults and children who are harmed recover, heal, and build resilience. The Promising Futures National Capacity Building Center partners with communities to innovate and mobilize survivors and their communities to strengthen child and family practices and organizations so they can create the conditions and experiences that prevent violence and promote healing. It prioritizes family well-being and breaking the intergenerational cycle of violence.
Our vision is a world where all children, families and communities have everything they need to thrive in a world that is free of violence.
Our mission: Promising Futures mobilizes and inspires bold innovations, leadership, and policy transformation to prevent violence and improve outcomes for children and their families.
Through its Promising Futures initiative, Futures Without Violence:
- Builds the capacity of programs in the DV and child serving landscape to innovate and transform DV program and policy design
- Creates, curates, disseminates resources to the field
- Provides training and technical assistance to the Specialized Services for Abused Parents and Children grantees, strengthening their work to respond to the social, emotional, and developmental needs of their children, some of whom have also experienced child abuse and neglect.
55 new grantees from local, state and tribal communities were funded in October 2024. The new grantees are the third and largest cohort to date. SSAPC supported 12 projects in 2016 and 26 more in 2020. Grantees are developing innovations to strengthen system responses, improve capabilities to serve domestic-violence-impacted children and youth, alleviate domestic-violence-related trauma among child and adult survivors, and deepen relationships between children/youth and parents.
Promising Futures and this webpage is supported by Grant Number 90EV0532 from the Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services within the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Neither the Administration for Children and Families nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse this website (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Administration for Children and Families and the Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services.
