Description
Title: Coordinated Community Response Using the Duluth Model
Dates: August 12-13, 2026, 9 am – 4 pm central each day
In 1980, Ellen Pence and other early DAIP organizers saw an opportunity to try something new to protect victims of domestic violence. They chose Duluth, Minnesota as an optimal place to experiment with not only a new idea, but also with a new way to organize a community around the significant issue of domestic violence. The new idea was to build a coordinated community response (CCR) that united the efforts of government and community-based agencies to hold offenders accountable and, most importantly, improve safety for victims. This new organizing method – now known as the Duluth Model – has become the most influential approach in the world to organizing and improving individual, community, and institutional responses to domestic violence. The Duluth Model includes the following core components:
- Listening to survivors and centering their needs
- Working to adopt a shared understanding of the social problem that is domestic violence
- Focusing on how the response is institutionally structured and sustained
- Tracking and monitoring data, trends, and outcomes
- Ensuring effective, community-based advocacy for victims and change-opportunities for offenders in lieu of incarceration
Today, the interventions and materials created to articulate this groundbreaking approach continue to influence, inspire, and provide guidance for individuals and communities around the globe. In fact, The Duluth Model has been recognized by many state and national organizations like the Ford Foundation, the American Medical Association and the World Futures Council in Germany who along with UN Women and the Inter-Parliamentary Union awarded the Domestic Abuse Intervention Program’s “Duluth Model” with their 2014 Gold Award, naming it the best policy in the world for protecting women and girls. In Duluth, the model continues to serve as dynamic road map for DAIP and our local partners to meet the ever-changing needs of survivors and their families. The Duluth Model ensures survivors’ experiences are centered in institutional priorities, practice, and change.
This training is designed to provide participants with:
- An in-depth review of each of the core components of the Duluth Model’s organizing method,
- A showcase of recent applications and outcomes in Duluth’s CCR, and
- Concrete tools to advance domestic violence response in their own communities.
Who will benefit from this training?
This training is designed for CCR teams, members, and leaders – whether you are new to this work or looking to revitalize your efforts. This includes but is not limited to: community- and systems-based advocates, batterer intervention program staff, law enforcement officers, probation supervisors, prosecutors, and judges.
Trainers
Scott Miller
Maren Woods
Rhonda Martinson
Registration
Space is limited to 70 participants to allow for the best learning environment through our virtual training lab. Held through Zoom, the two-day training is highly interactive and includes presentations, large and small group discussion, and regular breaks.
Team Registration: up to 5 people from a community and/or agency may attend the training. There are no requirements as to who attends.
Individual Registration: One person to attend the two days of training.
How to register:
Online registration: Add this item to your cart.
Phone registration: Call us toll-free at 1-866-417-6111, option 1.
Fax or mail registration: registration and order form Fax number: 218-722-0779
You will receive a registration confirmation email from DAIP as well as an online notification of your payment one to three days after your payment has been received.
Refunds (minus a $75 service charge) will be granted for cancellations at least two weeks before the event.
QUESTIONS? Contact us at 1-866-417-6111, option 1 or training@theduluthmodel.org.
