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Our Mission

The Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence (CCADV) is dedicated to the elimination of domestic violence in all of its forms. We recognize that this requires a fundamental change in society’s views of gender and gender roles. Through community education, networking and the empowerment of battered women and children, CCADV serves as a forum for social action and the development of services for battered women and their families by bringing its membership and the community together. CCADV is a diverse network of rural and urban advocates who work together through the coalition to coordinate services, exchange information and work on issues of common concern, thereby providing a unified, statewide environment that will nurture members’ local, community-based efforts to stop domestic violence.

Philosophy

• Our programs support, involve and include domestic violence victims and survivors of all racial, social, ethnic, religious, and economic groups, ages, sexual orientations and gender identities, and women with disabilities.
• We oppose the use of violence as a means of control.
• We support equality in relationships and the concept of helping women assume power over their own lives.
• We strive toward becoming independent, community based groups in which women are major policy and program decision-makers.
• We must work toward ending racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, classism, and oppression of all traditionally silenced groups within the domestic violence movement. These oppressions are perpetuated by the same systems that profit by violence against women and children and cannot be separated from the overall mission of the Coalition, for the oppression of one woman is the oppression of all women.
• We recognize and support efforts of other agencies and individuals in addressing all issues that help to eliminate oppression and societal support of violence.