Domestic Violence/Conflict Resolutions

The CPRR Domestic Violence Program (DVP) network offers a comprehensive approach to treatment for clients with domestic violence or anger-related referrals. The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services recognizes that traditional approaches to addressing addiction have the potential to further endanger victims and often fail to hold batterers accountable for their violence.

It also finds that re-victimization is predictive of relapse, making the safety needs of addicted battered women an essential part of a successful recovery strategy and a lack of information can cause advocates to miss opportunities to identify addiction and to intervene appropriately.

Substance abuse problems that remain unaddressed can compromise battered women's ability to implement safety plans. CPRR treatment plans include individual and group sessions, spanning from 13-26 weeks, with certain court mandates extending up to 52 weeks. The extended hours CPRR offers make this program work-friendly.

Statistics show more and more males as victims of Domestic Violence and many troubled youth are victims of Domestic Violence, Abuse or family conflict. CPRR also developed a network of Marital & Family Counseling and Supervision programs to ensure that clients with marital, divorce, separation, and child-based issues maintain family associations, parenting skills, independent living and continued positive behavior during their treatment. A 1998 survey found 1,510,455 women and 834,732 men are victims of physical violence by an intimate. Every 37.8 seconds, somewhere in America a man is battered. Every 20.9 seconds, somewhere in America a woman is battered.

CPRR, in collaboration with the Office of the Queens District Attorney and other jurisdictions, developed an innovative conflict resolution/ anger management treatment and education program specific to first-time or low-level violent offenders facing incarceration for domestic violence and help address a criminal justice system over-burdened by these cases.

The CPRR Batterers' Intervention Program addresses the strong correlation between domestic violence, child abuse, child neglect and addiction. It consists of a minimum of 26 educational counseling sessions for the batterer or abuser and Anger Management Program consisting minimum of 12 sessions as added components to the criminal justice system.