The PEACE Domestic Violence agency’s mission is to “reduce victim trauma, empower survivors, and promote recovery through direct services”. Furthermore, according to University of Phoenix Appendix B , PEACE also strives to reduce the incidents of sexual assault and domestic violence by teaching the neglected and the community and propositioning methods to combat against societal standards and principles. The program will exist in Portland, a large metropolitan city, because it has been suffering an increase in accounts of domestic, spousal, child abuse, as well as in youth violence, assault, and road rage in the past seven years.

The city of Portland is similar to many other communities throughout the country. As a large metropolitan city, the region has experienced increasing reports of domestic and youth violence, child and spousal abuse, assault, and strangely incidents of road rage over the last seven years. Portland has the five largest population of domestic violence in the United States, with the rise in the economy many people are out of work making them stress and violent, many of the youth has experience drastic cases of abuse. There is a growing concern with the use of gang violence and substance abuse among our youth. It has come to the attention of our teachers, parents, local law enforcement as well as our community. Human Service to this population of individuals are limited, consistent with the funding that is require the PEACE Domestic Violence Agency is proposing a six year plan providing substance abuse prevention, counseling, domestic violence and sexual assault through education and strives to challenge society normal that this is not a problem, with the beliefs that those who perpetuate violence in this community. Although many are from low income and abusive families without fathers or mother to guide them the cycle may continue for many