About Us
Welcome to Promising Futures where we envision a world free of violence, where all children, families, and communities have everything they need to thrive.
We partner with communities to improve responses to family violence.
Whether you are just starting to explore how your program, community or state could improve responses to domestic violence for parent and child survivors, or you have been delivering services for all family members for years, this website has the latest strategies, resources and tools that can support your program development, implementation and ability to share your actionable insights and impact with the field. The website is organized into two major categories – Designing & Innovating Solutions and Strategies for Healing & Strengthening Families.
We envisioned this website as an evolving resource for programs, communities and states – so please share with us all of the innovative work and tools you have developed so that we can continue to highlight promising practices. This website is for you, so please let us know how we can support and advance your practice. Given programs are constantly facing funding cuts and are under pressure to demonstrate positive outcomes, it is essential that we are strategic about prioritizing interventions that are evidence informed, relevant to people and families of all backgrounds, developmentally responsive and strengthen family relationships.. Furthermore, as a service landscape, we are at a pivotal moment in our movement history where we need to consider how partnering with researchers and documenting our successes can assist in advancing the work and securing essential resources.
Promising Futures National Capacity Building Center
Promising Futures National Capacity Building Center, a project of Futures Without Violence. Funded under FVPSA in 2016 and again in 2021, Promising Futures provides free technical assistance and support to the network of domestic violence state coalitions, local community-based programs, and other child serving systems on enhancing services for families impacted by domestic violence. Promising Futures helps to build organizational structures and services that prioritize child well-being, opportunities for healing, building resilience, and breaking the intergenerational cycle of violence. Promising Futures is the primary technical assistance provider to the Specialized Services for Abused Parents and their Children (SSAPC) grantees as well as the child serving landscape through:
Facilitating a learning community
Technical assistance and training
Developing new resources and tools for the field
Growing the research within evidence-based, trauma-informed, relevant practices for children and youth and their parents impacted by DV
Supporting best practices in evaluation and documenting lessons learned.
Promising Futures partners with some amazing organizations to collectively achieve our goals and outcomes including: Collective Action Consulting, Data+Soul, Collective Capacity Consulting, and Caminar Latino.
In 2016, 2020 and 2024, under FVPSA, the Office on Family Violence Prevention and Services awarded grants under the Specialized Services for Abused Parents and Children (SSAPC) program to capacity building projects to serve as leaders for expanding a broader network for support, developing evidence-based interventions for children, youth and parents impacted by domestic violence, and building national implementation strategies that will lead to local improvements in DV and other child serving programs.
For more information about Promising Futures, or to request technical assistance or training, contact Leiana Kinnicutt at lkinnicutt@futureswithoutviolence.org
Promising Futures and this website 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.