Putting Ourselves Out of Business: A Feminist Approach to Integrating Prevention as a Core Operating Principle for Intimate Partner Violence Service Agencies

Prevention and intervention services are often separated in intimate partner violence agencies. Yet, there are ways to provide direct services to survivors of intimate partner violence so that they have a preventive impact. This paper takes a feminist approach to understanding how prevention can be integrated into direct service as a core operating principle of intimate partner violence agencies. Theoretical frameworks are bridged to practice with many direct applications for service agencies