Men's Program
Services:
24-session family violence intervention classes certified by the State of Georgia that includes:
- Critical-consciousness and education groups focusing on domestic violence
- Substance-abuse education component
Benefits for Program Participants within 6 months of entering Caminar Latino:
Men’s Program Participants:
- 90% of families with man in attendance will report cessation of physical violence and removal of firearms within 2 weeks of entering the program
- 75% of men complete the program (national average is between 35%-75%)
- An increase in knowledge about domestic violence
- An increase in knowledge about the effects of violence
- An understanding of the mechanisms through which they learned to be violent
- An willingness to take responsibility for their violence,
- An decrease in their abusive attitudes towards their families
- An increase in knowledge about the effects of their risky behaviors for themselves, families, and communities