CFVPI

05/31/2026

Celebrating 8 years of partnership - 2026 Thank you TMF
We believe healing, growth, and recovery don't happen in 30 days.

Through our collaboration with the Motorcycle Fellowship, they support young men from all walks of life some as young as 19 and others well into their 50s who have grown up in abusive households, left abusive relationships, experienced trauma, faced displacement, or simply lacked positive support and mentorship along the way.

What makes this partnership different is that we are not focused on short-term solutions. We focus on relationships.

Many of those we work with don't need someone to "fix" them. They need positive connections, encouragement, accountability, and people who genuinely care about their success. They need a community that sees their potential and continues to show up long after a program or crisis has ended.

Together, CFVPI and the Motorcycle Fellowship help create opportunities for mentorship, healthy relationships, personal growth, life skills development, community involvement, and purpose through the motorcycle.

The impact is measured not in days or weeks, but in years. We celebrate victories, support each other through challenges, and build relationships that often last a lifetime.

Because sometimes the most powerful intervention is knowing someone believes in you and will continue to walk beside you on the journey.

Changing lives through connection and motorcycles!

05/31/2026

"Domestic violence is not a relationship problem, communication problem, or anger problem. It is a pattern of coercive behaviors used to establish and maintain power and control over another person."

What Research Shows
The National Domestic Violence Hotline states that abuse is a pattern of behaviors used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner.

The National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence developed and promotes the well-known Power and Control Wheel, which identifies tactics such as intimidation, emotional abuse, isolation, economic abuse, coercion, and threats.

Research has found that many abusers can control their anger in other settings (at work, with friends, in public) but choose abusive behavior toward a specific partner, which suggests the issue is not simply a loss of emotional control.

Studies have shown that traditional anger-management programs alone are generally ineffective at reducing domestic violence unless they also address beliefs about entitlement, control, accountability, and abusive behaviors.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identifies intimate partner violence as a pattern of behaviors used to establish power and control over another person.
Key Distinction

Anger is an emotion. Everyone experiences anger.

Domestic violence is a choice of behavior used to:

Control a partner
Create fear
Gain compliance
Limit independence
Maintain power in the relationship

Many people become angry and never abuse anyone. Conversely, many abusers are calm, calculated, and strategic in their use of intimidation, threats, financial control, isolation, or emotional abuse.

Simple Explanation:

Domestic violence is not caused by anger. Anger may be present, but abuse is about power and control. If domestic violence were simply an anger problem, abusers would lose control with everyone. Instead, abusive behavior is often directed toward a specific partner and used to gain compliance, maintain dominance, or create fear.

Sources Often Referenced in Training
Lundy Bancroft – Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
National Domestic Violence Hotline
National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence (Power and Control Wheel)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
World Health Organization

05/26/2026

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Only 25 tickets left for the conference next week, May 29-30 D.V!

Secure one today before it is too late!

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05/26/2026

Why an Active Domestic Violence Task Force Matters

A domestic violence task force brings agencies, nonprofits, schools, healthcare providers, law enforcement, courts, advocates, and community leaders together to solve problems collaboratively instead of working in isolation.

Effective task forces help communities:

Improve victim safety and faster access to help
Identify gaps in services and housing
Reduce duplicated efforts and wasted funding
Increase offender accountability
Improve communication between agencies
Strengthen coordinated community response systems
Track trends and high-risk cases
Develop local prevention strategies
Create transparency and public trust

When task forces are active and consistent, communities can respond to domestic violence as a public safety and public health issue not just a private family matter.

Why Prevention Education Matters

Prevention education teaches people how to recognize unhealthy behaviors before abuse becomes normalized.

Education can help:

Teens recognize dating violence warning signs
Adults understand coercive control and emotional abuse
Families identify trauma responses
Communities reduce stigma around asking for help
Bystanders learn how to safely intervene
Survivors understand their rights and available resources

Without prevention education, many people only learn about domestic violence after a crisis occurs.

Prevention Reduces Long-Term Community Costs

Domestic violence affects:

Healthcare systems
Schools
Workforce productivity
Law enforcement resources
Child welfare systems
Mental health outcomes
Housing stability
Substance abuse rates

Research consistently shows that early intervention and education reduce long-term social and economic costs.

Prevention Must Start Early

Healthy relationship education can begin with:

Emotional regulation
Respect and boundaries
Conflict resolution
Consent
Digital safety
Self-worth and identity
Recognizing manipulation and control

Teen dating violence prevention is especially important because many abusive relationship patterns begin during adolescence.

What Makes a Task Force Effective?

An effective task force is:

Consistent and active year-round
Transparent with the public
Survivor-informed
Data-driven
Inclusive of grassroots organizations
Focused on solutions, not politics
Willing to address service gaps honestly
Committed to prevention as much as crisis response

Public meetings, shared training opportunities, prevention campaigns, and collaborative planning all strengthen a task force’s impact.

Community Impact

Communities with strong prevention education and coordinated task forces often see:

Better victim trust in systems
Earlier intervention
Increased reporting
Better referral pathways
More collaboration between agencies
Stronger youth engagement
Better outcomes for families

Domestic violence prevention is not just about responding to violence after it happens. It is about building safer communities through education, accountability, collaboration, and early intervention.

Tima Humphries
Community Family Violence Prevention Initiative
Survivor | Certified Victims Advocate
Founder, CFVPI
Prevention Education Specialist | Program Development Specialist
Mindful-Based Eco-Therapy Facilitator
www.cfvpi.org Phone: 678-590-9158

🚨 Need Help?
If you or someone you love is in danger, call 911 immediately.

🏠 Domestic Violence Support
Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence
📞 1-800-334-2836 (24/7)

National Domestic Violence Hotline
📞 1-800-799-7233
💬 Text: START to 88788

🧠 Mental Health & Crisis Support
988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline
📞 / 💬 Call or Text: 988
Crisis Text Line
💬 Text: HOME to 741741

🌈 LGBTQ+ Support
The Trevor Project
📞 1-866-488-7386
💬 Text: START to 678678

LGBT National Help Center
📞 1-888-843-4564

💛 Teen Dating Violence Support
Love is Respect
📞 1-866-331-9474
💬 Text: LOVEIS to 22522

💬 You deserve safety. You deserve support. You deserve to be heard.

05/24/2026

How Domestic Violence Can Impact a Victim-Survivor’s Mental Health
Some Key Components of Trauma-informed Care for Providers and Advocates:

A commitment to non-violence is essential in a domestic violence service agency. Because advocate-survivor relationships are based on equality, an advocate will not use punitive or coercive interventions because they emphasize power differentials.

Each individual seeking services has her own unique history, background, and experience of victimization.

Treat each survivor as an individual.

Healing and recovery are personal and individual in nature.
Each survivor will react differently.Programs and advocates need to be consistent yet flexible.

Establishing a connection based on respect and focusing on an individual’s strengths provides the survivor an environment that is supportive and less frightening.

The experience of domestic violence violates one’s physical safety and security. Programs need to provide safe physical spaces for both adults and child survivors.

Emotional safety is imperative so that survivors can feel more secure and comfortable. They need to live in an environment where their worth is acknowledged and where they feel protected, comforted, listened to, and heard.

Collaborating with a survivor places emphasis on survivor safety, choice, and control.

05/23/2026

05/14/2026

We love working with Ohio leadership! Mayor
Aftab Pureval, of Cincinnati is a Democrat who previously worked in the Legal Aid Domestic Violence Clinic while attending the University of Cincinnati College of Law, representing survivors of abuse. 🦋💜

During , we recognize the law enforcement officers who respond to some of the most complex and high-stakes calls in our communities, including domestic violence calls which are among the most dangerous and unpredictable situations an officer can face.

This week we are releasing “The Law Enforcement Handbook for Working with Victims of Domestic Violence,” developed by ODVN in partnership with the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services. This field-ready handbook was built for law enforcement officers on the front lines of domestic violence response. It includes important Ohio statutes related to domestic violence, trauma-informed interviewing, lethality assessment tools, red flag indicators, promising practices, and more.

➡️ Check it out here:https://www.odvn.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/LawEnforcementBestPractices.pdf

05/14/2026

Mental Health & Toxic Relationships
Link Between Mental Health and Domestic Violence: The Statistics

On average, more than half of the women seen in mental health settings are being or have been abused by an intimate partner.
There are specific diagnoses that are commonly experienced by these women: post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety. In addition, traumatic events produce profound and lasting changes in physiological, arousal, emotion, cognition, and memory- changes that wouldn’t necessarily result in psychological diagnosis.
It’s important to understand that someone’s mental health can be impacted without having PTSD, depression, or anxiety. Whether or not someone develops PTSD as a result of domestic violence depends on numerous factors, not everyone is impacted in the same way. The ways in which a victim-survivor’s mental health can be impacted can include: difficulties with being productive at work, school, with caregiving, establishing and engaging in healthy relationships, and adapting to change and coping with adversity.

A victim-survivor’s mental health can also be weaponized and used as another form of violence and harm. Mental health coercion is a commonly used tactic that is targeted toward the victim-survivor’s mental health as part of a broader pattern of abuse and control and includes: deliberately attempting to undermine a survivor’s sanity, preventing a survivor from accessing treatment, controlling a survivor’s medication, using a survivor’s mental to discredit them with sources of protection, support, to manipulate the police or influence child custody decisions, or engaging mental health stigma to make a survivor think no one will believe them. Other common tactics that target mental health include other forms of emotional abuse, especially gaslighting.

Tima Humphries
Community Family Violence Prevention Initiative
Survivor | Certified Victim Advocate
Founder, CFVPI
Prevention Education Specialist | Program Development Specialist
Mindful-Based Eco-Therapy Facilitator

Confidential email [email protected]

📞 678-590-9158

A privately funded nonprofit serving West Georgia since 2016

🚨 Need Help?
If you or someone you love is in danger, call 911 immediately.

🏠 Domestic Violence Support

Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence
📞 1-800-334-2836 (24/7)
National Domestic Violence Hotline
📞 1-800-799-7233
💬 Text: START to 88788

🧠 Mental Health & Crisis Support

988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline
📞 / 💬 Call or Text: 988
Crisis Text Line
💬 Text: HOME to 741741

🌈 LGBTQ+ Support

The Trevor Project
📞 1-866-488-7386
💬 Text: START to 678678
LGBT National Help Center
📞 1-888-843-4564

💛 Teen Dating Violence Support

Love is Respect
📞 1-866-331-9474
💬 Text: LOVEIS to 22522

💬 You deserve safety. You deserve support. You deserve to be heard.

05/12/2026

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One of our 2026 Men of Peace Partners, The Journey and the The Journey & The Process, will be offering their own Men of Peace Coaching Cohort.

This Men of Peace Coaching Cohort is a 26-week, structured, gospel-centered program for men who are ready to take responsibility for harmful patterns and pursue real, lasting change.

Not every man is ready for this… but if you are, it could change everything.

This isn’t therapy. It’s not surface-level behavior management.

It’s deep work—rooted in accountability, discipleship, and honest self-examination.

✔ Weekly live coaching
✔ Guided coursework + reflection
✔ A community committed to growth and change

If you—or someone you love—is ready to stop minimizing, blaming, or hiding…this is the next step.

👉 Learn more and apply: https://thejourneyandtheprocess.com/upcoming-events-groups/men-of-peace/

05/07/2026

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is one of the most important public health studies linking childhood trauma to adult mental and physical health outcomes. Conducted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente, it found that trauma experienced before age 18 can significantly affect lifelong wellbeing.
ACE Study highlights:
1. ACEs Are Extremely Common
About 64% of adults reported at least one ACE.
Nearly 1 in 6 adults reported four or more ACEs.
2. The Higher the ACE Score, the Greater the Risk
The study found a strong “dose-response relationship”:

The more trauma a person experienced in childhood, the greater their risk for:
Depression
Anxiety
PTSD
Substance misuse
Su***de attempts
Chronic illness
Relationship difficulties
Mental Health Connections

Adults with 4 or More ACEs Are:
Much more likely to experience depression
More likely to struggle with emotional regulation
At significantly higher risk for su***de attempts
More likely to experience addiction or coping through substances
More likely to experience intimate partner violence later in life
Brain & Nervous System Impact
Chronic childhood stress can affect:
Brain development
Stress hormones
Emotional regulation
Memory and concentration
Ability to feel safe in relationships
Researchers often refer to this as “toxic stress.”