Batterer’s Intervention Program

Participants will attend a 27-session state certified Batterers Intervention Program based on a modified Duluth Model Curriculum. The program will help the participants acknowledge their use of violence.

• Definitions of Domestic Violence
• Dynamics of Power and Control
• Socialization, including gender, roles, and equality
• Batterer’s responsibility for past and future abusive behavior
• Relationship between substance abuse, mental illness, and acts of violence with a distinction that there is not a cause and effect relationship
• Relapse prevention plan that provides alternatives to all forms of abuse
• Challenging the beliefs that promote abusive behavior
• Nonviolent alternatives    
• Examine your belief systems and behaviors that support violence.
• Expand definitions of violence and controlling behaviors.
• Discuss the effects of violence on women, men, children, and yourself. 
• Identify and practice non-violent alternatives.