Certified Batterers’ Intervention Program (BIP)
TCCS and DUI School has provided Batterers’ Intervention Programs in the Chattanooga, TN area since 2003. Our program uses the Duluth Model curriculum (see below) and is offered both in English and Spanish. There are 26- or 52-week options. An intake assessment must be scheduled (English or Spanish) before starting class. There is a $55 intake fee and cost is $35 per class.
Contact us today to schedule an intake assessment. Se habla español.
BIP Class Schedule
Men’s (English)
- Wednesday 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
- Friday 10:00 am to 11:30 am
Women’s (English)
- Tuesday 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Men’s (Spanish)
- Thursday 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
FAQs of the Duluth Model
The Duluth Model provides communities with an approach to responding to domestic violence – a process that places the needs of victims at the center of a community’s response. This process utilizes a consistent set of principles and a shared understanding of battering in each intervention. The Duluth Model focuses on men who commit domestic violence and female victims. Its theory is based on an understanding of male power, control, and dominance as culturally and historically pervasive and which allowed, if not encouraged, men to control women, sometimes using violence.
The Duluth Model utilizes the “Power and Control Wheel.” The Power and Control Wheel can be a helpful tool to help understand the experience of women who live with men that use violence. This wheel is characterized by a pattern of actions that a person uses to control or dominate his intimate partner.
The Duluth Model or Domestic Abuse Intervention Project was created by feminist Ellen Pence. This model was named after Duluth, MN, where it was developed.
By applying all components of the Duluth Model, research has shown that more than half of offenders that move through Duluth’s criminal justice system and men’s nonviolence classes will not resurface in the system after eight years.