The Emerge Program

People who have abused their relationship partners and people in potentially abusive relationships

Emerge's mission is to eliminate violence in intimate relationships. In working toward this goal, Emerge seeks to educate individual abusers, prevent young people from learning to accept violence in their relationships, improve institutional responses to domestic violence, and increase public awareness about the causes and solutions to partner violence. With the development of parenting education groups for fathers, Emerge has recently expanded its mission to include a goal of helping men to become more responsible parents.

Emerge teaches that domestic violence is a learned behavior, not a disease or a sickness. Emerge supports grassroots, institutional and cultural efforts to stop partner violence, sexual assault, and child abuse. Emerge recognizes that other oppressive life circumstances such as racism, poverty, and homophobia create a climate that contributes to partner violence.

• Agency/Affiliation: Emerge: Counseling & Education to Stop Domestic Violence
• Website: http://www.emergedv.com/
• Email: info@emergedv.com
• Phone: (617) 547-9879

Publicly available information indicates there is some training available for this program. See contact info.

Manual Information

There is a manual that describes how to deliver this program.

Training Information

There is training available for this program.

• There are currently no published, peer-reviewed research studies on outcomes with the appropriate target population for the topic area(s) in which The Emerge Program has been reviewed.

• Adams, D., & Cayouette, S. (2002). Emerge: A group education model for abusers. In E. Aldarondo and F. Mederos, (Eds.). Programs for men who batter: Intervention and prevention strategies in a diverse society (pp 4-1 - 4-32). Kingston NJ, Civic Research Institute.

• Adams, D. (2003). Treatment programs for batterers. Clinics in Family Practice, 5(1), 159-176.