To ensure adequate treatment for women seeking protection through the courts; Project Safeguard-in conjunction with CourtWatch-developed Fatality Review to track these deaths and research the circumstances of the relationship that lead to the violent conclusions.

One-in-three women are victims of an intimate partner homicide. We know that the violence is generationally perpetuated, but we don't know how to stop or even slow it down. As a society, we pretend that "it can't happen to us, so it doesn't exist". Legally we can only deal with it after it occurs.

To affect change, we must develop more effective methods of:

• Identification;
• Prevention;
• Intervention; and
• Resolution.

Only through understanding the contributing and precipitating factors of violence between intimate partners can we develop programs to raise awareness, remove the stigma, and enlist the community-at-large to end violence in families.