Issues in Family Violence

Winter 2002

Non-Violence Alliance Progress Criteria

David Mandel

_____Are we working towards making batterers more responsible and accountable for the well-being and safety of the children in their family?

_____Are we utilizing existing legal and social work processes to hold batterers accountable for their behavior?

_____Are we teaching child protection workers how to talk to batterers who are fathers about the damage the violence does to their children? .

_____Are we providing child protection personnel with the support, training and guidance they need to successfully and safely work with batterers?

_____Do our policies and practices follow the most comfortable, familiar path to child safety: through the mother?

_____Are we willing to work with batterers to help them become better fathers?

(c) 2002, The Non-Violence Alliance. Permission to reprint with the following information "Originally published in Issues in Family Violence, Volume 4, Issue 2 Winter 2002, The Non-Violence Alliance, www.endingviolence.com."