About Strength at Home
Our Mission
Strength at Home exists to reduce intimate partner violence by providing accountable, trauma-informed, evidence-based treatment for individuals who have caused harm in relationships.
Our Approach
The program integrates trauma-informed principles with clear expectations for responsibility, behavior change, and safety.
Development
Strength at Home was developed by clinicians and researchers with extensive experience in domestic violence intervention, trauma treatment, and collaboration with the criminal justice system.
Our Values
Safety, accountability, and evidence guide all aspects of the program.
About the Program Developer
Casey T. Taft, Ph.D., is a psychologist at the National Center for PTSD in the VA Boston Healthcare System, and Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Taft was the 2025 Thompson Award winner from the Military Family Research Institute, and the 2009 Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award winner from the Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma. He has served as Principal Investigator on several funded grants focusing on understanding and preventing intimate partner violence, including multiple randomized controlled trials and implementation studies of the Strength at Home intervention programs, of which he was the primary developer. He has overseen the full implementation of his Strength at Home programs across the VA healthcare system, the largest healthcare system in the United States. Dr. Taft is on the Editorial Boards of five journals and has published over 150 academic articles and an American Psychological Association book on trauma-informed partner violence intervention.
