The Wisconsin Batterers Treatment Provider Association (WBTPA) was formed in the year 2000, to oversee the ongoing development and implementation of the State of Wisconsin Male Batterers Treatment Standards. These standards were developed in collaboration with the membership of the WBTPA and the Wisconsin Department of Corrections and were endorsed by the Wisconsin Governor’s Council on Domestic Abuse in 2007.

In order to be a member of the WBTPA, batterer intervention programs must demonstrate compliance with the Male Batterers Treatment Standards. These standards address treatment approaches and practices currently recognized as the most appropriate treatment for male domestic violence perpetrators. The WBTPA provides these standards and guidelines as well as ongoing education and certification for batterer intervention programs throughout the state of Wisconsin.

With victim safety as a primary priority, our goal is to provide individuals who use violence in their relationships with the opportunity and skills to change beliefs and attitudes that drive their use of violent behavior. WBTPA members strive to be a cooperative and integral component of our respective community’s response to domestic abuse, by holding domestic violence perpetrators accountable for their behaviors, and enhancing safety for domestic abuse victims and their children.  

We value and believe in:

• Focusing on a batterer’s responsibility to recognize and stop their physically violent and other abusive and controlling behaviors
• Providing batterer treatment services in a manner which promotes partner, child and societal safety.
• Participating in community activities which promote consistent monitoring of batterers, improve protection of victims and children, and improve the understanding of, and local response to domestic violence.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” 

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The mission of WBTPA is to end domestic violence, including but not limited to physical, emotional, verbal, sexual, and economic abuse, as well as threats, intimidation, stalking, and social isolation of a partner.

The WBTPA Steering Committee