PARENTING AFTER VIOLENCE
Parenting After Violence is a new national concept, which explores ways that both mothers and fathers can restore family safety and help their children to heal when there has been trauma, conflict, and family violence within the home. In many cases when domestic/family violence has occurred, support to become skilled and caring parents after violence has ended is a crucial need for both the mother and the father. There is a growing recognition that many men who have been abusive are also fathers who will continue to be involved in the lives of their children and their children's mothers; and that many mothers who have been abused or abusive will continue to parent their children. These families need and deserve more support. The Parenting After Violence initiative is a collaboration between the Philadelphia Department of Human Services and ISF to create amd implement a Parenting After Violence Curriculum for child welfare and other providers.