Your donation this Ramadan will assist Peaceful Families Project in offering our youth curriculum Peaceful Futures and expanding our curriculums for interventions addressing patterns of family violence. “Let's end DV with PFP”. Your donations are zakat eligible in the category of Fisabilillah, in the cause of Allah.

Who Are We?

Peaceful Families Project is a US-based, national non-profit organization that has been in existence since 2001 that was incorporated in 2008 which the goal of eliminating and preventing Domestic Violence in the Muslim community by promoting Islamic-based models of gender, marriage, and family leadership. Peaceful Families Project serves the community in its journey to violence-free families through four major functions including Training, Resource Development, Research, and creating alliances and national representation of Muslim communities in the area of Domestic Violence. We have trainers all over the United States!

Numbers Don't Lie!

• On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men. ₁
• 1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner contact sexual violence, and/or intimate partner stalking with impacts such as injury, fearfulness, post-traumatic stress disorder, use of victim services, contraction of sexually transmitted diseases, etc.
• 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner. This includes a range of behaviors (e.g. slapping, shoving, pushing) and in some cases might not be considered "domestic violence."₁
  • 1 in 7 women and 1 in 25 men have been injured by an intimate partner.₁
  • 1 in 10 women have been raped by an intimate partner.₁
• 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence (e.g. beating, burning, strangling) by an intimate partner in their lifetime.

What Do We Do?

In an effort to affect change in all areas impacting victims and survivors of domestic violence, our programming includes:

• Prevention and intervention in its approach to community education and development
• Training and technical assistance
• Research

We encourage a holistic approach to addressing domestic violence among Muslim families and communities through collaboration with imams, community leaders, community members, social service professionals, activists, educators, legal providers, and youth leaders.

Peaceful Families Project (PFP) uses Islamic values to educate communities, religious leaders and mainstream service providers about Domestic Violence. PFP sponsors an annual National Imam Training to support individual majids in creating safe spaces and support for families experiencing domestic violence.

Affiliated Partnerships

Peaceful Partners Projects represents Muslim voices at the national level collaborating with the Whitehouse Task Force on Gender Based Violence, the National Faith Based Committee Against Domestic Violence, the National Domestic Violence Coalition and the national working group on Forced Marriage.  In addition PFP houses the National Muslim Advocates Network Against Domestic Violence which includes representatives from over 40 Muslim direct service providers working with victims of domestic violence. 

The New Programs:
 
🤝 Peaceful Partners

Peaceful Partners is a program dedicated to Muslim Male Allies who are making a difference as role models for positive partnership in their families and communities.

🌄 Peaceful Futures

Peaceful Futures is a youth curriculum for Middle School, High School, and university-aged individuals that explores Muslim identity, gender, family, healthy relationships, emotional management, diversity/ tolerance, and cyber citizenship from an Islamic perspective.

🌎 Peaceful World

Peaceful World offers the Peaceful Family curriculums and trainings to our global partners around the world including Canada, Palestine, Pakistan, and beyond.

👫 Peaceful Parenting

Peaceful Parenting enhances the development of strong Muslim individuals through positive effective behavior management skills and increased understanding of emotional, cognitive, and spiritual development.

↔️ Peaceful Partings

Peaceful Partings explores the gift of family restructuring when needed through divorce or separation through a Muslim perspective focusing on how to manage grief, co-parenting, and re-building trusting collaborative family systems to support children and adults through the challenges of change.

💔 In Their Names

Peaceful Families Project (PFP) is initiating a national/ global project to recognize, document and memorialize the stories of and honor the victims of domestic homicide in Muslim communities in the United States and beyond. We want to recognize and remember the 11 women who lost their lives over the summer to domestic violence. 

How you can help!

• Being trained as a local representative and presenter for your community
• Serving as a language-specific trainer or translator
• Conducting academic research on DV topics in the Muslim community
• Becoming a Board Member
• Following PFP on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook
• Spreading the word about PFP's work
• Donating to this LaunchGood fund!!!