These classes are designed for men and women who use violence against their domestic partner and or children.
(WOMEN)
Turning Points: A Non-violence Curriculum that challenges women’s function of their violence.
- Classes focus on self-reflection and alternative behaviors to violence.
- For women who use both legal and illegal violence against their partners.
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Its focus is on helping women understand the connections between the violence they experience and the violence they use. Its overall goal is to help them end both.
(MEN)
The ADA (Alternatives to Domestic Aggression) Curriculum provides the framework.
- Utilizes a cognitive behavioral approach as an intervention to men’s violent behaviors but does not minimize accountability.
- Specializes in working with men to stop their use of abuse or battering.
- The purpose of ADA is to end domestic violence and abuse in our community.
NurseWise Crisis Line
The NurseWise crisis line is available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week by calling 866-495-6735. Telephone Crisis Intervention Services are provided by nurses, behavioral health professionals, behavioral health technicians, and peer and family support specialists.
- On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men. 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have been victims of [some form of] physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetime.
- 1 in 15 children are exposed to intimate partner violence each year, and 90% of these children are eyewitnesses to this violence