Domestic Violence Training Project

• Increase the number of professional African American social work practitioners prepared to work with victims and perpetrators of domestic violence .

• Recruit qualified second year African American graduate social work students to develop competency in social work practice with victims, perpetrators,women and children of domestic violence.

• Make available information about family and domestic violence to all students and faculty .

• Promote the integration of relevant content on family and domestic violence to all students and faculty.

• Provide exploratory research data on victims, perpetrators, and children of domestic violence and evaluation of treatment for intervention with African Americans.

• Disseminate information to the social work community, the university community and the community at large.