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.

History of Family Violence Program