BIP
The Batterer’s Intervention Program
LACAB is certified with the MO Department Corrections to provide BIP treatment services.
Domestic violence is a pattern of assaultive and coercive behaviors that adults or adolescents use against their current or former intimate partner.
The role of the Batterer Intervention Program is to address the issues of both, the offender and the victim.
Abuse can take many forms, it is easier to identify the physical abuse than it is the more subtle forms that might never be seen of felt by anyone other than the victim experiencing the abuse.
The Batterer Intervention Program will address a variety of issues and concerns that could benefit the client to avoid future patterns of violence.
A key element to the success of addressing domestic violence is the existence of available resources.
The Batterer Intervention Program is a 26 week program, 2 hours per week.
The 26 week BIP treatment will include:
- How abusers use power and control: Domestic violence is not impulsive, but purposeful behaviors.
- Isolation: Controlling what he or she does, who they see or who they talk to.
- Intimidation: Putting the victim in fear by using looks, actions, gestures, loud voice, etc.
- Threats: Making and or carrying out threats, to do something to hurt emotionally, including texting.
- Using Children: Making the victim feel guilty about the children.
- Sexual abuse: Doing sexual things against his or her will.
- Economic abuse: Trying to keep the victim from getting or keeping a job.
- Emotional abuse: Putting the victim down or making them feel bad about themselves.
- Damaging relationships: The abuser might discredit relationships with others in the community.
- Attacking property and pets: Hitting the wall, throwing things, hurting the pet.
- Stalking partner or ex-partner: Follow, threaten, harass, and attempt to terrify the victim.
- Empowerment: reinforce the expectations that a victim who has been abused can and will take charge for his or her life.
The 26 week BIP treatment will include:
- How abusers use power and control: Domestic violence is not impulsive, but purposeful behaviors.
- Isolation: Controlling what he or she does, who they see or who they talk to.
- Intimidation: Putting the victim in fear by using looks, actions, gestures, loud voice, etc.
- Threats: Making and or carrying out threats, to do something to hurt emotionally, including texting.
- Using Children: Making the victim feel guilty about the children.
- Sexual abuse: Doing sexual things against his or her will.
- Economic abuse: Trying to keep the victim from getting or keeping a job.
- Emotional abuse: Putting the victim down or making them feel bad about themselves.
- Damaging relationships: The abuser might discredit relationships with others in the community.
- Attacking property and pets: Hitting the wall, throwing things, hurting the pet.
- Stalking partner or ex-partner: Follow, threaten, harass, and attempt to terrify the victim.
- Empowerment: reinforce the expectations that a victim who has been abused can and will take charge for his or her life.
Did You Know?
- A woman is assaulted or beaten every nine seconds.
- 1 in 3 women—and 1 in 4 men—have been in abusive relationships, and 1 in 5 women and 1 in 7 men have faced severe physical violence.
- 20 people are abused by an intimate partner every minute, adding up to 10 million each year.
- More than 200,000 phone calls are placed to domestic violence hotlines every year.
- Intimate partner violence accounts for 15% of all violent crimes.
Always Remember:
- No amount of bad behavior can induce someone to behave violently. Victims do not cause their abuse, even if they are unfaithful, unreasonable, or unkind.
- Responding to violence with violence is only acceptable in cases of self-defense, not to punish the perpetrator.
- No level of violence is normal or acceptable in a relationship; a person who resorts to violence once will likely do so again.
- Domestic violence harms children even when the children are not physically abused; many police departments treat domestic violence in the presence of children as a form of child abuse