PACT- Personal Accountability for Changing Tomorrow
Personal Accountability for Changing Tomorrow (PACT) is an intervention program operated by BHSN. The program serves individuals who have used violence, control, or intimidation in their relationships—whether court-ordered or self-referred. PACT helps individuals take responsibility for their actions, learn new ways of thinking, and build respectful, non-violent relationships.
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Program Overview
PACT is a batterer intervention and education program that works with people who have used violence or controlling behaviors in relationships. The goal is to promote accountability, challenge harmful beliefs, increase safety for victims, families, and the broader community, by decreasing the likelihood of further violence.
All offender participants must sign a waiver of confidentiality to permit disclosure of participation to survivors, probation, and the courts, as needed. This assists PACT’s accountability to survivors by ensuring that survivors have information needed to make informed decisions through sharing information with courts and probation.
Most individuals are referred through the court system or social services as an alternative to incarceration. The program maintains one of the region’s highest completion rates, and participants rarely re-enter the criminal justice system. Each success represents not just one life changed—but a safer home and community.
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Services Offered
Participants engage in a 36-week curriculum focused on self-reflection, communication, and emotional regulation.
Lessons explore respect, empathy, impulse control, and belief systems that contribute to harmful behavior.
Through discussion and skill-building, participants learn to replace patterns of power and control with responsibility, respect, and equality.
Program Qualifications
Most individuals are referred to the PACT program through the court system or social services as an alternative to incarceration.
Ages Served
Adult Male 18+
Eligibility
Men who perpetrate violence towards their partners. Referral or self-referral.
Insurance & Payment
Insurance is not accepted. DSS may fund participation fees if it is court-ordered, or the participant must self-pay.
Additional Information
Coordinated Community Response
Studies have shown that domestic violence perpetrators are often more likely to cease abusive behavior when members of the community combine efforts to protect victims and hold those who batter responsible for their actions.
This strategy is incorporated into most batterer intervention programs, and it works first by developing and sharing a common understanding of domestic violence and then by targeting and changing those social norms that allow for continued domestic violence. Members of the community, such as law enforcement officers, health care providers, clergy, and the media, coordinate to create a system that protects victims right away and provides them with services as needed.
Participants in this intervention work with the criminal justice system not only to protect victims but also to change the ideas and attitudes that may help contribute to domestic violence in the community. Research has found that when individuals who batter their partners are held accountable by the community, they may be more likely to change their behavior.
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