The C.A.R.E program is designed to address domestic violence issues.

We focus on teaching participants healthy, peaceful ways to express themselves and interact with partners and others in a way that shows their love and caring.

The full curriculum runs for 26 weeks, two hours a session and can be entered at any point.

Domestic Violence is the most committed yet least reported crime in the United States.  Every 15 seconds, a woman is physically abused.  Battery is not an isolated incident, but a pattern of controlling behaviors that can last years, affecting all areas of family life. Children raised in violent homes are at risk of becoming not only future abusers, but are more likely to get involved in a wide variety of crimes as juveniles.

This savage cycle of violence repeatedly places victims, children, law enforcement agents, and the offenders themselves  in danger.  Domestic violence affects our community every day by filling our jails, disrupting our work facilities and schools while creating chaos in our homes.

Are You Too Angry?

Read the statements below.  Count how many are true for you and score yourself.

• People often tell you to calm down.
• You feel tense much of the time.
• At work, you keep your thoughts to yourself.
• When you are upset, you try to block out the world with TV, drinking, reading, sleeping, or surfing the net.
• You drink or smoke almost daily to help you calm down.
• You feel misunderstood or not listened to much of the time.
• People ask you not to yell or curse so much.
• Your loved ones keep saying that you are hurting them.
• Friends do not seek you out as much. 
  
• You have been arrested (or almost) for causing a disturbance or fighting.

Scoring:

     0 - 2 = MANAGEABLE: you could benefit from relaxation training.

    3 - 5 = MODERATE: you need to learn more about what stresses you, and learn stress management techniques.

      6 + = OUT OF CONTROL: you have an anger problem that could benefit from learning anger management techniques.

Anger reactions have been likened to a runaway  train.   A little anger can motivate us to make positive changes. A lot of anger will make us "see red". The price of losing our temper is huge: divorce, job loss, jail. If you think you have a problem, come see us.