Providing the Expertise and Resources Survivors Need to Move Forward
Victims’ Safe Harbor Foundation, Inc. (VSHF) is a 501(c)(3) social impact organization that provides legal services, consulting, research, publications, presentations, and community education addressing domestic violence, child abuse, coercive control, and complex family law litigation.
VSHF brings legal, academic, research, and lived experience together to help survivors navigate the realities of litigation and to improve professional and public understanding of how abuse may continue through the judicial system.
Our Mission
Assisting victims of domestic violence and/or child abuse by providing the needed expertise and resources to achieve a safe, healthy, and happy future that is free from the terror of ongoing abuse and violence.
Our Vision
A future in which survivors have the expertise, resources, and support necessary to live safely and free from ongoing abuse, including abuse carried out through the judicial system.
Our Approach
VSHF combines legal advocacy, interdisciplinary research, education, and a trauma-informed understanding of domestic violence, child abuse, coercive control, and litigation.
Experience Informed by Law, Research, Advocacy, and Lived Understanding
Dr. Donna King, Esq.
J. Dayton King, Esq.
Allison D. Gordon-Budreau, Esq.
Brianne Hamilton
Juliana Hamilton
Dr. Courtney Kalmanson
When the Judicial System Becomes an Avenue for Continued Abuse
For some survivors, separation does not end the abuse. An abuser may use court filings, discovery, financial pressure, parenting disputes, and prolonged litigation to maintain power and control over their victim long after the relationship has ended and the parties have separated.
Victims’ Safe Harbor Foundation works to increase awareness of Judicial Terrorism® and the ways coercive control can continue through the judicial system.
