
Healing Together
When our relationships are safe and healthy, so are our communities. Healing Together is a new campaign that engages men, and people of all genders, in the work to build safe and accountable communities by focusing on healing, gender justice, and racial equity—instead of punishment—to end intimate partner violence. We aim to shift away from punitive policies and systems that produce violence and expand community-based approaches that focus on prevention, accountability, and healing for all.
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Why Healing Together?
Intimate partner violence is a frightening reality for millions of Californians and a public health crisis that especially affects Black, Native, and bisexual women and transgender people.
For decades, women in the anti-violence movement have led the critical work of meeting the immediate safety needs of survivors — saving countless lives. It is time to build on those efforts and expand the conversation by doing more to address the root causes of harm and the need for healing for all — including those who have caused harm.
We can’t end violence through policing and incarceration, especially when half of survivors won’t call the police for fear of unintended consequences and 75% of survivors who do call the police say it was either harmful or not helpful. Through Healing Together, we will build safe and accountable communities by focusing on gender and racial equity and healing — instead of punishment — to end intimate partner violence.
In the News – Highlights
- Trying to Help Survivors, a Domestic Violence Agency Turns the Focus (California Health Report, May 2022)
- Restorative Justice Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence (YES! Magazine, March 2022)
- Domestic Violence Survivors Often Don’t Want to Call the Police. California Tries a New Approach (California Health Report, December 2021)
- These Organizations Want to Help Survivors of Domestic Violence — Without Calling the Police (The Lily, October 2021)
- Ending Domestic Violence Requires Working with Those Who Harm, Too (Yes Magazine, October 2019)
Resources
Policy Paper and Summary
Campaign Partners
Partners
- 2nd Call
- A CALL TO MEN
- Abuse Is Not Love
- ACEs Connection
- American Indians in Texas
- Berkeley Media Studies Group
- Bet Tzedek Legal Services
- Blue Shield of California Foundation
- Boys Academic Leadership Academy
- Brotherhood of Elders Network
- Brothers Sons Selves Coalition
- CA Work & Family Coalition
- California Alliance for Youth and Community Justice
- California Consortium for Urban Indian Health
- California School-Based Health Alliance
- California Tribal TANF Partnership
- Ceres Policy Research
- Collective Justice
- Common Justice
- Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse
- Community Resource Center
- Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ)
- Contra Costa Alliance To End Abuse
- Cure Violence Global
- DOVES of Big Bear Valley, Inc.
- Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- Extraordinary Ideas
- Family Violence Law Center
- Fathers & Families of San Joaquin
- Freeform
- Futures Without Violence
- Gender Violence Clinic
- Grow the Children
- Homeboy Industries
- Hope and Heal Fund
- Howonquet Early Learning Center
- Imperial Valley LGBT Resource Center
- It’s My Life
- Jennifer Parker Therapy, Training, and Consultation
- Justice Teams Network
- Khmer Girls in Action
- Korean American Family Services
- LIVE FREE USA
- Mercer Brotherhood
- MILPA
- National Compadres Network
- Oakland Power Projects & Berkeley Copwatch
- Oakland Unite
- One Voice
- Prevention Institute
- Public Health Advocates
- Realized Potential INC
- Resilience Orange County
- Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples
- RYSE
- Self-Awareness & Recovery
- STAND! For Families Free of Violence
- Strategic Prevention Solutions
- Strength United
- Stop Coalition
- STRONGHOLD
- Tariq Khamisa Foundation
- The California Partnership to End Domestic Violence
- The Ever Forward Club
- The Hite Law Group
- The Next Step Coaching and Consulting
- The Positive Results Corporation
- The Unity Council
- The Way Church Berkeley
- Time of Change
- Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation Community and Family Services
- Transitions 2 Success
- Trauma Transformed
- Trauma Through A Traumatized Perspective
- Tsilhqotin National Government
- Young Women’s Freedom Center
- Youth ALIVE!
- Youth Justice Coalition
- Youth Leadership Institute
- Yurok Education Dept.