Patterns of abusive behavior are most often the symptoms of a mental health challenge or other co-occurring issues, rather than a “moral” deficit. No amount of personal conviction can “cure” it. For this reason, intervention and treatment are necessary.

Family abuse-related trauma is the most under-reported health and safety issue in the nation. Despite statistics that suggest “1 in 4” women and “1 in 7” men will experience domestic violence, this only refers to intimate partner violence and the true number of victims is substantially larger.

In this culture of silence, the chances are, that someone you love has already experienced physical or sexual abuse,

and their secrets are “poisoning” them-

Right now.

Today’s untreated victims are far more likely to be tomorrow’s victims and abusers…

And most often-

Wounded people will hurt the ones they love first.

Victims often fear the consequences of reaching out to police and/or child protection agencies, sometimes even more than the pain they endure at home.

Community initiated intervention is our greatest hope for impacted families.

Although most reporters of IPV are adult women in heterosexual relationships, the majority of family abuse directly or indirectly victimizes minor children of every race, culture, class and gender more often than their adult family members.