Peace At Home, Inc.

Causes: Civil Rights, Crime & Law, Domestic Violence, Family Violence Shelters, Homeless & Housing, Spouse Abuse Prevention, Women, Womens Rights

Mission: Peace At Home is a grassroots agency dedicated to stopping domestic violence through a human rights framework. We seek to do this by heightening public awareness about the national emergency of domestic violence, implementing education and prevention/intervention programs, and organizing community response and involvement.

Originally founded in 1992 as Battered Women Fighting Back! Peace At Home grew out of a grassroots community task force of over 100 volunteers including community activists, women in prison, shelter workers, attorneys, legislators, and students focused on freeing the eight women incarcerated in Framingham MCI prison for defending their lives against their batterers. From this beginning, Peace At Home provided educational and prevention/intervention programs addressing domestic violence as a violation of fundamental human rights.

Peace At Home promotes the proposition that domestic violence is not solely a women's issue but, more important, a human rights violation. Our programs and social change initiatives embrace the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a standard for human interaction in our society. We believe, given the tools and information, everyone can help stop domestic violence and reshape the way our society thinks about and responds to domestic violence, and build a movement to claim the right to live at home in safety and dignity, free from fear of physical and psychological abuse.