Batterer's APIP
Abusive Partner Intervention Program focused on accountability, education, safer relationships, and positive change.
Batterer's / APIP Program
Through an innovative way of holding batterer’s accountable and victims safe, Fatherhood Matters uses the Duluth Model of domestic abuse intervention – the most widely-adopted approach in the world.
Conceptualizing abusive behaviors and tactics through a wheel of power and control, the Duluth Model helps facilitate father’s change through critical dialogue by challenging men’s entitlement to abuse and questioning beliefs that are held by men of themselves, their partners, and the world.
Along with this exploration, fathers also explore and practice noncontrolling and nonviolent alternatives to interacting with their partners and others.
Duluth Model
Fatherhood Matters uses the Duluth Model of domestic abuse intervention to help participants understand patterns of power, control, and harmful behavior.
Accountability
The program focuses on holding batterer’s accountable while keeping victim safety at the center of the work.
Critical Dialogue
Participants are challenged through dialogue that questions entitlement to abuse and harmful beliefs about themselves, their partners, and the world.
Nonviolent Alternatives
Fathers explore and practice noncontrolling and nonviolent ways of interacting with their partners and others.