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Domestic Violence Center

Domestic Violence Center 

Counseling for Victims

The CARE Center partners with the 25th Judicial District Court, Plaquemines Parish District Attorney’s Office, and the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office to provide assessment and counseling services to  victims of Domestic Violence,

 

Signs of domestic violence

Common signs of abusive behavior in a partner include (even one or two of these behaviors in a relationship is a red flag that abuse may be present):

  • Telling you that you never do anything right.

  • Showing extreme jealousy of your friends or time spent away from them.
  • Preventing or discouraging you from spending time with friends, family members, or peers.
  • Insulting, demeaning, or shaming you, especially in front of other people.
  • Preventing you from making your own decisions, including about working or attending school.
  • Controlling finances in the household without discussion, including taking your money or refusing to provide money for necessary expenses.
  • Pressuring you to have sex or perform sexual acts you’re not comfortable with.
  • Pressuring you to use drugs or alcohol.
  • Intimidating you through threatening looks or actions.
  • Insulting your parenting or threatening to harm or take away your children or pets.
  • Intimidating you with weapons like guns, knives, bats, or mace.
  • Destroying your belongings or your home.

Remember: no one deserves to experience abuse of any kind—for any reason. And every type of abuse is serious.

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power & control wheel

26-Week Group for Perpetrators (Duluth Model)

A 26-week batterer intervention program developed to reduce domestic violence through education on the concepts of power and control that are at the root of domestic violence. The program concentrates on providing group facilitated exercises that challenge a male’s perception of entitlement to control and dominate his partner and is the recognized program for batterer intervention services.

What is The Duluth Model?

Since the early 1980s, Duluth—a small community in northern Minnesota—has been an innovator of ways to hold batterers accountable and keep victims safe. The “Duluth Model” is an ever evolving way of thinking about how a community works together to end domestic violence.

A community using the Duluth Model approach:

  • Has taken the blame off the victim and placed the accountability for abuse on the offender.

  • Has shared policies and procedures for holding offenders accountable and keeping victims safe across all agencies in the criminal and civil justice systems from 911 to the courts.

  • Prioritizes the voices and experiences of women who experience battering in the creation of those policies and procedures.

  • Believes that battering is a pattern of actions used to intentionally control or dominate an intimate partner and actively works to change societal conditions that support men’s use of tactics of power and control over women.

  • Offers change opportunities for offenders through court-ordered educational groups for batterers.

  • Has ongoing discussions between criminal and civil justice agencies, community members and victims to close gaps and improve the community’s response to battering.