Domestic Violence
Domestic violence – also known as Intimate Partner Violence or IPV- is a pattern of coercive tactics, including physical, sexual, emotional, economic, and/or verbal abuse, and/or using the children to gain control over the adult victim with the goal of maintaining power and control over the victim.
Clients involved in both drug treatment and child welfare have often had personal experience with domestic violence. Men and women, teens and adults alike have been victims, batterers, and child witnesses.
Both treatment providers and child welfare professionals need to have a basic understanding of domestic violence. Professionals need to know what they can do, how children may be affected, and what are current policies guiding their work.
ACS and domestic violence
Learn how ACS is addressing domestic violence, and its policy about domestic violence and child removal
Domestic violence and substance abuse
Screening and addressing domestic violence in drug treatment settings
Protecting victims
Concrete suggestions to help you protect victims from further danger
Addressing batterers
How to help batterers change their distorted power-and-control based behavior
