Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP)

The DVIP is committed to working towards eliminating physical & emotional abuse from intimate relationships and to changing attitudes that support abuse against women.

Domestic Violence Services include any/all of the following:

Domestic Violence and Abuse Course for Men:

• 26 week course for men utilizing "state of the art" information (based on the Duluth Model) Violence and how to eliminate it. The course meets once a week for 26 weeks.

• For participants referred by the courts, probation, etc., compliance reports provided as needed.

• Registration fee is $25.00 payable at time of registration

• Tuition is $10.00 per class, payable at each class session.

• Most registration appointments can be set within 1 to 10 work days.

Program Goals:

• To end domestic violence

• To ensure collaboration with the justice system, human service providers and shelters to end violence.

• To assure safety of the partners of participants in our programs.

• To teach offenders alternatives to coercive dominating and violent behavior in intimate relationships

Violence is intentional. Battering is a system of abusive behaviors which are used to maintain control. Our culture has sanctioned men's use of violence to maintain dominance in relationships with wives/partners. Individual men can change. In all cases except self-defense, there are always alternatives to violence.

Am I an Abuser?

Men, if abuse has affected your relationships and you don't like what you are doing, we would like to help.

We offer a 6 month program (1 1/4 hrs each week) during which time a man with the help of other men can recognize that there are personal, marital, and legal implications to violent behavior. Violence is learned and therefore can be changed. You are responsible for your own actions and there are ways to control your temper and we can show you how.

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