Domestic violence affects thousands of women every year in Iowa.
Domestic violence crisis intervention services exist because all people deserve to have relationships that are physically and emotionally fulfilling, NOT physically or emotionally abusive and controlling. Batterers use physical violence and other abusive behaviors to get their own needs met and to control their intimate partner's life. Battering is not new. Victims of this crime have been speaking out and naming the abuse perpetrated against them for a long time. Throughout this website, victims are primarily referred to as women and batterers as men.