Families Against Abuse Batterer's Intervention Program

11/11/2025

Today is about honoring our veterans. See the link for the history of Veterans Day!

https://department.va.gov/veterans-day/history-of-veterans-day/

11/11/2025

15 signs you are being manipulated:
1. They refuse to communicate
2. They reject all accountability
3. They try to make you feel insecure
4. they act like they don't understand
5. They expect you to follow their rules
6. They don't acknowledge your feelings
7. They twist your words to benefit them
8. They try to embarrass or humiliate you
9. They spread lies to paint you in a bad light
10. They leave you feeling crazy ad confused
11. They turn their insecurities into your flaws
12. They turn cold for not conforming to them
13. They try to inject fear in you to conform to them
14. They use your past to avoid their present wrongdoings
15. They say offensive things that they mean but call it a joke

11/08/2025

10/17/2025

10/05/2025

Today I would like to honor Amy Kuritar Lohrmann who was a wonderful probation officer in Seminole County, Florida that on October 15, 2001 was murdered by her husband who then killed himself. They were separated at the time. She worked hard to help her clients that were in need of a Batterers Intervention Program to sign up immediately and successfully complete the program. She was a graduate of UCf who after her death held a special event to honor her.

10/03/2025

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Protecting victims and their children is a community effort! Survivors deserve safety. Survivors deserve support. Survivors deserve solidarity.

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLIII
DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Chapter 741
MARRIAGE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

741.32 Batterers’ intervention programs.—The Legislature finds that the incidence of domestic violence in this state is disturbingly high and that, despite the efforts of many to curb this violence, one person dies at the hands of a spouse, ex-spouse, or cohabitant approximately every 3 days. Further, a child who witnesses the perpetration of this violence becomes a victim as he or she hears or sees it occurring. This child is at high risk of also being the victim of physical abuse by the parent who is perpetrating the violence and, to a lesser extent, by the parent who is the victim. These children are also at a high risk of perpetrating violent crimes as juveniles and, later, becoming perpetrators of the same violence that they witnessed as children. The Legislature finds that there should be standardized programming available to the justice system to protect victims and their children and to hold the perpetrators of domestic violence accountable for their acts. To ensure statewide consistency in such programming, the Department of Children and Families shall certify and monitor batterers’ intervention programs to be used by the justice system. Finally, the Legislature recognizes that in order for batterers’ intervention programs to be successful in protecting victims and their children, all participants in the justice system as well as social service agencies and local and state governments must coordinate their efforts at the community level.
History.—s. 16, ch. 95-195; s. 37, ch. 96-312; s. 280, ch. 99-8; s. 2, ch. 2001-183; s. 12, ch. 2012-147; s. 3, ch. 2021-152.

10/03/2025

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. One in eight women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. Early detection is key!

09/24/2025

Learn to feed the good wolf with us!

09/11/2025

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum offers a collection of first-person accounts of the attacks and their aftermath. They have an amazing website honoring the victims.

https://www.911memorial.org/learn/students-and-teachers/DLE-archives

09/01/2025

Good morning and happy Labor Day all! Our office will be closed today in observance of the holiday, and we will reopen with our normal business hours on Tuesday, 9/2/2025.

08/27/2025

Our hearts go out to the families affected by the horrific act of violence in Minneapolis this morning. Grateful for the quick response from first responders and law enforcement.