Building Multiple Pathways to Healing, Safety, and Accountability to Address Intimate Partner Violence

Many responses to intimate partner violence (IPV), especially work to engage those who have caused harm through IPV, have remained relatively unchanged over the past few decades despite the widespread, long-lasting, and devastating impact IPV continues to have on communities. Engaging people who cause harm is a crucial part of supporting survivors, fostering healthy relationships and communities, and ending violence. In response to a need to develop more effective programming, New York City implemented a comprehensive citywide approach to people who cause harm, developing multiple programming options for people who cause harm both within and outside of the criminal legal system. This practice note outlines these programs and proposes several practice implications for the field.