Creating Safer Communities for Texas Families

Creating a Safer Texas starts with data and listening to survivors. Every five years, TCFV conducts an in-depth, researcher-led needs assessment to thoroughly understand survivors’ experiences and deliver concrete recommendations for lasting change. Read the full report and join us in building a safer Texas.

TCFV honors extraordinary women whose life’s work empowers others, challenges the conditions that allow domestic violence, and reflects the strength, compassion, and leadership they bring both as advocates and as mothers.

Texas’ statewide taskforce to reduce and prevent family violence homicides began their work in January 2026. Learn more about the taskforce’s efforts, progress and takeaways through our monthly updates.

This report offers an update to the Texas Needs Assessment to tell the story of the needs and services provided to survivors of family violence in Texas.

The 2025 Efficacy of Battering Intervention Programs report examines the efficacy of BIPPs in Texas, focusing on their impact on reducing domestic violence recidivism and improving outcomes for offenders and survivors.

We pause to honor the lives of 161 Texas women, men, and children killed by someone who claimed to love them. These narratives prioritize highlighting lethality risk factors for best practices on enhancing future survivor safety.

TCFV offers an annual update to the Texas State Plan to tell the story of the needs and services provided to survivors of family violence in Texas.

Domestic Violence High-Risk Teams (DVHRTs) create a community-co­ordinated initiative in which survivors at the highest lethality risk get enhanced support from law enforcement, advocates, prosecutors, and others. This wraparound model holds offenders accountable and is a trauma-informed approach centered on victim safety.

The recent SCOTUS decision overturning Roe v. Wade is a blow to the collective work towards our mission to create a safer Texas.

Safe and affordable housing is essential for and deeply tied to survivor safety and stability. Take a look at the landscape of housing for survivors in Texas and the benefits of different types of housing assistance, especially domestic violence transitional housing.

On our weekly podcast, we deepen the conversation around violence prevention with a series of discussions on the root causes and consequences of violence. Join us as we go down a different rabbit hole to critically examine a topic and how it relates to gender-based violence.