Family Violence

Our initiative to bring awareness to family violence through educational seminars, events, conferences and collaborating with other inter-agencies and provide funding to emergency crisis centers, counseling for domestic violence victims, foster care and children from domestic violence.

Man murders his spouse and four children; a man throws his two children off the balcony and then commits suicide; Scott Peterson murders his wife and unborn child; and a man is stop for a traffic violation with his beheaded wife’s head in the car. Violence in the family has been an ongoing battle and international crisis abroad.

Intervention program and services in the past have focus more on the micro or individual level than now realizing it is more of a macro or socialization level. Working in an emergency shelter and meeting the needs of abused, homeless, prostitutes, raped, incest-ed, molested and divorced women, has raised my personal dimension towards the sociological influences of life surrounding them. It goes deeper than human hands can do but at least there is support, policies, law, counseling and other helping hands today. I would like to personal thank Professor Deborah Cosimo, Ma, LPC who open my eyes from the side of the batterer. She coordinates the Batterer Intervention Program(BIP) in the Denton County area in Texas. She taught family violence at University of North Texas. When victims and abusers are helped, we work toward a more productive goal of family preservation.