Beyond the Crisis: A Long-Term Approach to Reduce, Prevent, and Recover from Intimate Partner Violence

California must transform its response to intimate partner violence from a focus on crisis intervention to one of prevention and early intervention.The Little Hoover Commission began studying California’s response to intimate partner violence in late 2019. In May 2020, the Commission released its first report on the topic, Intimate Partner Violence: Getting Money to Those on the Front Line, which asked the Governor and Legislature to provide grant funding upfront to service providers.