Garfield County Domestic Violence Coalition

A member of our staff coordinates and facilitates the Garfield County Domestic Violence Coalition (GCDVC). GCDVC began in 2014 as a Coordinated Community Response to domestic violence. The mission for a Coordinated Community Response is to organize a community response to domestic violence that promotes public safety and offender accountability. Safety means protection of the victims from ongoing abuse by a partner, protection of potential future victims, and finally creation of deterrence to this type of violent behavior in the community. Offender accountability means holding offenders responsible for the violence they have used and its impact on primary and secondary victims. (Praxis International, Integrating Theory and Practice, 2013).