Victim-Defined Advocacy Beyond Leaving: Safer through Strategies to Reduce Violent Behavior

This paper explores strategies to reduce violent behavior, both physical violence and all other forms of abuse,  using a victim-defined approach. It recognizes that reducing violence is central to our mission, difficult, and long been a part of our advocacy to make victims safer. The paper offers concrete tools and a thorough approach for understanding the importance of reducing violent behaviors as part of safety planning for victims in contact with partners that use violence.