Pathways to Family Peace (from 2020-2024) was a "live" video-conference men's non-violence program option for court ordered domestic violence offenders. Pathways to Family Peace used the Duluth Model's "Creating a Process of Change for Men Who Batter" curricula and the addendum curricula entitled "Addressing Fatherhood with Men Who Batter" (Scaia, Connelly & Downing, 2007).
Pathways to Family Peace provided programming for domestic violence offenders. In 2018, Pathways to Family Peace began as a research project to decide if offering a men's non-violence program for domestic violence is appropriate using video conference software technology. The program began by Melissa Petrangelo Scaia of Minnesota and Jon Heath of Maine. The research was conducted by Professor Nicole Westmarland, PhD and Rosanna Bellini, PhD candidate of the University of Durham in England. The Initial Lessons Learned from Using Video Conferencing Software to Deliver Interventions for Men using Violence in Intimate Relationships was written by Professor Westmarland and Rosanna Bellini in 2020 as part of this research.
After the research was complete in 2020, Pathways to Family Peace (2020-2024) began as a direct service. At the time, Pathways to Family Peace needed to know what the standards in each of the 50 states in the United States are for domestic violence offender programming. Hanna Sobhani, a GRW intern, worked with GRW’s Melissa Petrangelo Scaia to develop this document in 2020.
We continue to keep the document below as current as possible. If you live and work in a state with more current information than what is reflected here, please e-mail us at pathwaystofamilypeace@gmail.com.
State Standards for Domestic Violence Offender Groups in the United States