Intimate Partner Violence (DV) What is Emerge? video by Sarah Cortes
Channel: Sarah Lewis Cortes
Date: 2011-03-21

What is Intimate Partner Violence (sometimes called Domestic Violence)? What is Emerge?
Founded in 1977, Emerge was the first abuser education program in the United States. Since its creation, Emerge has been a national leader in working to end violence in intimate relationships, including court-ordered programs as well as voluntary education and counseling. 

In this video, we interview key Emerge founders and staff to better understand the issues. Created collaboratively with the CCTV production team, the video is intended to reach a wide audience.

Emerge's mission is to eliminate violence in intimate relationships. In working toward this goal, Emerge seeks to educate individual abusers, prevent young people from learning to accept violence in their relationships, improve institutional responses to domestic violence, and increase public awareness about the causes and solutions to partner violence. With the development of parenting education groups for fathers, Emerge has expanded its mission to include a goal of helping men to become more responsible parents.

Emerge teaches that domestic violence is a learned behavior, not a disease or a sickness. Emerge supports grassroots, institutional and cultural efforts to stop partner violence, sexual assault and child abuse. Emerge recognizes that other oppressive life circumstances such as racism, poverty and homophobia create a climate that contributes to partner violence.


Produced by Sarah Cortes ©2011