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Websites
Counseling, support groups and programs assisting the whole family to eliminate abuse.
http://www.actabuse.com
Article by Rod Patterson in Issues Facing Australian Families: Human Services Respond.
http://www.infoxchange.net.au/wise/DVIM/DVFraud.htm
No To Violence (NTV), the Male Family Violence Prevention Association Inc., is a peak organisation of individuals and agencies working for the prevention of male family violence. The specific focus is work with men to assist them to change and end their violent behaviour.
http://www.ntv.net.au/
Critique of batterer treatment programs.
http://www.mincava.umn.edu/papers/limits.asp
This publication from the Florida Department of Corrections contains certification procedures and state minimum standards for batterers' intervention programs and assessors in Florida. Also included are monitoring procedures and all forms for the program.
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/batterers
Violence Against Women Online Resources - University of Minnesota.
http://www.vaw.umn.edu/Vawnet/AR_bip.htm
by Edward Gondolf, Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training Institute, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
http://www.iup.edu/maati/publications
A summary of a talk given by José Tavarez at the conference Men Aren't From Mars: Masculinities and Non-Violence in Latin American and the Caribbean, held in London in October 2001.
http://www.ciir.org/ciir.asp?section=news&page=story&ID=366
Information and updates about the work of the Non-Violence Alliance, its training and program development project, the Domestic Violence Intervention Training Institute and issues related to work with batterers.
http://www.endingviolence.com
Counseling service in Central Indiana.
http://www.nonviolentalternatives.com/
Includes research and published works on violent offenders, their treatment, and their perceptions of the treatment and how others view them.
http://www.endingviolence.com/researching_batterers.htm
AMEND is a nonprofit organization working to end domestic violence by providing counselng to men who have been abusive, advocacy to their partners, and education to the community.
http://amendinc.org
Report in Acrobat PDF format from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs - June 2003
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/195079.pdf
Listing of sex-specific treatment providers for abusing children, teenagers, and adults by state.
http://childmolestationprevention.org
The Freedom From Fear site provides an informational booklet and links to resources for men who batter.
http://www.freedomfromfear.wa.gov.au
Batterer intervention program of Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County, Michigan.
http://csswashtenaw.org/ada/
NY Model for Batterer Programs provides a service to the civil and criminal court systems, for men who appear as a result of their acts of domestic violence. As a service to the courts, a NY Model batterer program is utilized to extend judicial monitoring (both pre-disposition and post-disposition) and as a mechanism for offender accountability.
http://www.nymbp.org/