Our Liberation-Based Batterer’s Intervention Program supports heterosexual and LGBTQ+ people who have used violence with intimate partners to take full accountability for harm caused. We challenge rigid masculine norms, interrupt cycles of coercive control, and address intergenerational trauma using approaches grounded in intersectionality and the lived experiences of people from multiple cultural, social, and historical contexts.
This work addresses intergenerational trauma through liberatory healing practices rooted in intersectionality and the lived experiences of people from multiple cultural, social, and historical contexts. At the heart of our approach is fostering individual and collective accountability within circles of care — networks that hold participants responsible while nurturing transformation, dignity, and connection.
Core Beliefs & Principles
- Accountability Is Foundational: Healing requires both individual and collective accountability, shared within circles of care that include family, community members, and allies.
- Intersectionality & Lived Experience: We center the realities of people shaped by multiple, overlapping systems of identity and oppression — including race, gender identity, sexual orientation, class, immigration status, and disability.
- Trauma-Informed & Liberation-Focused: We connect personal healing to an awareness of historical and systemic harm, restoring dignity, agency, and community belonging.
- Family & Intergenerational Healing: We include children, caregivers, and extended family to interrupt the transmission of trauma and co-create safer, more equitable relationships.
- Survivor Safety & Collaboration: The safety and voice of victim-survivors guide all program decisions.
- Substance Recovery Integration: Education and recovery work address co-occurring challenges and support sustainable transformation.
- Non-Violent Parenting & Partnering: We equip participants with skills for equitable, respectful, and non-violent relationships as partners, parents, and community members.
- Community Sponsorship & Allyship: Men, women, and LGBTQ+ allies actively partner with participants to dismantle patterns of intimate violence and model non-violence.
Program Components
Our program combines socio-educational circles, individual accountability sessions, intergenerational family healing, substance use recovery work, and community-based sponsorship. Sessions are shaped by intersectional analysis, grounded in the lived experiences of participants from diverse spaces and cultures, and embedded in circles of care that weave support with accountability.
Referrals & Survivor Support
Survivor safety is our highest priority. We coordinate safety planning, ongoing monitoring, and direct connections to legal, housing, and therapeutic resources. Victims and children have access to parallel healing services to support whole-family recovery and relational repair.
Related Services
- Intergenerational & Family Healing
- Substance Recovery & Education
- Non-Violent Parenting Practices
- Community Sponsorship & Ally Initiatives
- Survivor Safety Resources
To refer someone or learn more about our program structure and licensing, contact our Liberation-Based Healing team.
