2568 North Martin Luther King Dr.
Milwaukee, WI 53212
414-265-0100 (ph)
414-265-0200 (fax) mail@almacenter.org

The Alma Center works to motivate peaceful change through education in intimate relationships, family and community.

How we work towards our mission.

The Alma Center provides gender specific training, education and mentorship to men who have a history of perpetrating violence or abuse toward their partner.

Why we take this approach.

We know that human beings do not enter this world intent upon doing harm and hurting each other. Violence is a learned behavior.

Tragically, the primary school for children’s education in violence is most often their home. Children who grow up in violent homes learn to perpetrate and to accept violence from the example of their parents or other guardians.

Witnessing and/or experiencing violence or abuse as a child dramatically increases the risk of other serious problems-- physical, behavior, academic, social, emotional and psychological.

Yet we also know that since violence is learned, it can be unlearned--violence can be changed.

Teaching skills of peace and respect to those who have perpetrated violence in the past helps break the cycle of violence before it passes to the next generation.

Our programs.

The Batterer Intervention Program is a six-month educational class designed to help men understand the roots of their behavior; accept personal responsibility and be accountable for their choices; learn to practice respect toward their partner, their children, their family, and their community; make amends for past behaviors; and strive to be a positive role model.

The Caring Dads Initiative is an innovative child-centered program designed to give fathers who have been violent or abusive toward their intimate partner the opportunity to develop new awareness and acquire new skills for improving and healing their relationship with their children and learning to respectfully co-parent with their mother.

We also provides related social services to enhance life skills, stability and functioning of our clients, including job readiness and referral, on-site alcohol and drug abuse programming, and mental health counseling.

What we hope to accomplish.

To end men's use of violence and abuse.

To improve the safety and well being of victims and children.

To reduce the harmful effect of children's exposure to violence in the home.

To prevent continuation of the cycle of violence to the next generation.

To help men heal and move forward from the trauma experienced in their own lives.

To improve the future.