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Our Mission
The
Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence (CCADV) is dedicated
to the elimination
of domestic violence in all of its forms. We recognize that this
requires a fundamental change in society’s views of gender
and gender roles. Through community
education, networking and the empowerment of battered women and children,
CCADV serves as a forum for social action and the development of
services for battered women and their families by bringing its membership
and
the community together. CCADV is a diverse network of rural and urban
advocates who work together through the coalition to coordinate services,
exchange information and work on issues of common concern, thereby
providing a unified, statewide environment that will nurture members’ local,
community-based efforts to stop domestic violence.
Philosophy
• Our programs support,
involve and include domestic violence victims and survivors of all
racial, social, ethnic, religious, and economic
groups, ages, sexual orientations and gender identities, and women with
disabilities.
• We oppose the use of violence as a means of control.
• We support equality in relationships and the concept of helping women
assume power over their own lives.
• We strive toward becoming independent, community based groups in which
women are major policy and program decision-makers.
• We must work toward ending racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, classism,
and oppression of all traditionally silenced groups within the domestic
violence movement. These oppressions are perpetuated by the same systems
that profit by violence against women and children and cannot be separated
from the overall mission of the Coalition, for the oppression of one
woman is the oppression of all women.
• We recognize and support efforts of other agencies and individuals in
addressing all issues that help to eliminate oppression and societal
support of violence.
Strategic Plan 2003-2006
In 2003, CCADV members developed
a strategic plan to achieve CCADV’s
mission of ending domestic violence in all of its forms
through community education, networking and the empowerment of battered
women and their children, and to
adhere to CCADV’s philosophy. Click
here to download a copy of
our strategic plan (PDF file).
