Help for Male Victims of Domestic Violence
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For the first time ever, male survivors of domestic abuse will now be offered a peer led, 12-week support group online, making support available from the comforts of home!
Since 2000 the Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men and Women (DAHMW) has been offering support services to abuse survivors through its nationally available toll-free helpline. This year DAHMW will offer a virtual support group to male victims of abusive women. Participants will use virtual cameras to attend online meeting groups at a given time every week for 12 weeks.
“Over the years we have received numerous requests for this type of service from our male helpline callers,” said Jan Brown director and founder of DAHMW. “We are thrilled to be one of the first to offer this vital and needed service to male survivors of domestic abuse.”
This support group will give participants an opportunity to understand the effects of abuse on themselves and their children, explore what healthy intimate relationships look like, and help them to achieve personal growth in all areas of their life.
Currently, the virtual support group is designed for male victims who have been in an abusive relationship with a female partner. To participate in the online support group, victims must be removed from the abusive partner for at least a month. Participants must have access to a computer and high-speed Internet service. DAHMW will supply the camera.
To find out more about this program, please contact DAHMW via email at dahmwagency@gmail.com or call 207-683-5758.
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I wish I had available then… this program shows significant promise and is tailored specifically for men. If you or someone you love is suffering or has suffered domestic abuse at the hands of their partner, please suggest that they give this program a try. Get the help you need. Get the help you deserve.
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I’ve promoted some of DAHMW’s intiatives here on thepsychoexwife.com before, including:
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:44 am
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:08 am
From what I have read and seen so far on this site, I must say that I am very happy to have found it. It appears that maybe there is some hope? I wont hold my breath too long, time is short for me and my children. We have barely survived 3 years of judicial child abuse and corruption in the Las Vegas family court system and are hanging on by a thread at best! If you were to put all of the discusting and imoral abuse of men and children contained on this site, together in one diviorce case it would be mine! Then add a mountain of corruption, set up’;s, fraud, conspieriouce, coverup’s, abuse of law,fact and morality on top! Going through a diviorce is bad enough, but when your abusive socipathic x knows sombody at family court who hate you and has been around F.C.for over 40 year’s you dont stand a chance! I have fought long and hard! I’ts a miracle that have made it this far! I will never give up,” I can’t!” I love and miss my boy’s more than ever! This fact has had and will continue to have it’s price… The stakes are higher than ever in this discusting battel to save my boy’s from more abuse! In order to save face , reputation and job, judges have made me their personal target. They have used all and every sickening dirty trick available on me and my children, too many to list..WE NEED HELP NOW, TODAY! WITHOUT HELP I FEAR THAT THERE NO POSSIBLE HOPE FOR US! I HAVE ALL THE EVIDENCE TO PROVE CHILD ABUSE AND CORRUPTION! THEY KNOW THAT AND HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO FINISH ME OFF SOON. NO-MATTER WHAT IT TAKE’S. I have taken a vowe to not allow this to happen again to any child, man or woman! It has cost me and my boy’;s everything! This abuse must be stoped! We were not the first, nor will we be the last! ARE FOUNDING FATHERS AND ALL WHO HAVE DIED TO PROTECT OUR FREEDOM HAVE DIED IN VEIN, IF WE DO NOTHING! I have everything needed to expose and stop this abuse! It can be done! If anybody is truley commited to make a diffrence now is the time! Let’s make history and leave or children with somthing to be proud of, not insecure and scared! ARE CHILDREN’S FUTURE NEED’S US NOW!
THANK YOU.
JAMES, RILEY AND NICK ANTER
(702) 773-3214 CALL ANYTIME
CASE # D363825
FILED 10/5/06
FAMILY COURT
June 16th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Hiya,
My name is Penny Utton and I am completing a doctorate in Counselling Psychology and am studying the Domestic abuse of men by there female patners. Mens experience of Domestic Abuse remains a largely taboo and hidden topic and one i feel very strongly about, I want to get the experience out there so its no longer taboo and people start recognising the issue. I am trying to find nine participants for my project but am really struggling as (understandably) few men feel comfotable discussing it, participation will take about an hour and will be paid for,
Please see a copy of the flyer below and if you are interested, please contact me - you would be of great help both to me and to the recognition of the topic as a whole,
Many Thanks
Penny
To whom it may concern,
I am a trainee counselling psychologist at London Metropolitan University and am currently carrying out research to discover more about heterosexual men’s experiences of domestic abuse.
Very little is known about the topic and only a sparse number of services are available in the UK to help survivors of such abuse. Equally, very limited research has been conducted in this area which has not helped to break the silence around this very important issue. My hope is that by carrying out this research we will be able to gain a better understanding of men’s experiences of domestic abuse so that victims of abusive partnerships are able to get the support, help and services they need.
I am writing in the hope that you will be interested in helping me in this endeavor and share your experience of domestic abuse by participating in an interview. The interview would last approximately 1 hour and will be voice recorded. Data from your interview will be used for my Doctoral level counselling psychology project.
Participation is entirely voluntary. If you choose to participate you are free to withdraw at any point (up until two weeks after the interview date) without question. Interviews will be voice recorded and strictly confidential. All recordings will be kept securely and destroyed once the project is completed.
Before you decide to participate it is more important that you understand that the interview will be discussing a very emotive topic and therefore may evoke some distressing and difficult feelings for you. In line with this it is also important that you have left the relationship that you will be discussing for a minimum of four months and be older than 18 years of age. Therefore please take your time in deciding whether or not you wish to take part. You will have the opportunity to discuss any feelings evoked at length post interview with the researcher and be given information on sources of support if you would like this.
Thank you so much for your time, if you have any further quires please do not hesitate to ask: email: pennyutton@hotmail.com.
I look forward to hopefully hearing from you soon.
Yours Sincerely,
Penny Utton.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:40 am
[...] And jackasses like this lead the charge when people (informed men and women alike) point out why, as prevalent and public as domestic violence against men has become lately… it’s still an alarmingly under-reported crime by male victims. [...]