About Us
Family Violence Program Mission
To apply the resources and public spirit of the Colorado Bar Association to foster peace in our homes, workplaces, and communities by:
- Educating and encouraging attorneys to respond appropriately to perpetrators, victims, and witnesses of family violence.
- Participating in coordinated community responses to family violence.
- Promoting pertinent responses for attorneys involved in family violence as victims, perpetrators, and witnesses.
- Promoting the improvement of the legal system’s and the community’s responses to family violence.
Family Violence Program Objectives
- Educate attorneys.
- Assist lawyers who are victims and perpetrators.
- Increase access to the legal system for victims of family violence.
- Monitor legislation.
- Work to improve how cases involving family violence are handled by the system.
- Implement pilot studies in the area of law and family violence.
