Our Mission Our mission at the Center for Domestic Violence Prevention is to end violence in the lives of individual battered women and their children as well as in the community at large through direct services and educational programs. Domestic violence is rooted in and perpetuated by our society and its institutions.
Violence is a means of oppressing others and is destructive to individuals and to society.
Racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, ableism, and ageism are also unacceptable and destructive. All women in general, and battered women in particular, have experienced some form of oppression. Everyone has the right to be fully empowered. Abuse is taking power and control over someone else's life. Every individual has the right to make their own choices and decisions concerning their lives.