seeks to engage and involve boys and men in violence prevention and encourage them to take a leadership role through education,
public dialogue, and cultural intervention through community organization/coordination.
Statistics
31% of American women report being phsically or sexually abused by a
husband or boyfriend at some point in their life.
(1998 Commonwealth Fund Survey)
37% of women coming into emergency rooms with violence related injuries were inflicted
by a current or former intimate partner.(Bureau of Justice Statistics)
In 2001, 85% of the victims of intimate partner violence were women.(Bureau of Justice Statistics)
More than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children
under age 12.(U.S. Department of Justice)
