Mission of Transforming Communities:
Creating Safety and Justice for Women and Girls (TC)
is a national leader in the creation of contemporary, community-based approaches to preventing violence against women and girls. By developing and implementing prevention campaigns and by disseminating best practices through trainings and publications, TC advances the prevention agenda, particularly within the domestic violence field. Drawing from the experience of effective social movements and the public health model of prevention, TC fosters sustainable change by building community ownership, promoting individual transformation, and fundamentally shifting the social norms that condone or support violence against women.

As a learning center for the development and application of interlocking strategies, TC seeks to change the prevailing knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that support violence against women and other forms of abuse as a social and individual norm. While the vision of a "new reality" that motivates the work of TC encompasses the eradication of all forms of oppression (and in particular the full spectrum of gender-based violence), our current strategic focus is on the violence women of all ages experience within intimate relationships. This focus reflects first of all the importance of domestic violence as a primary cause of injury to women and a contributing factor to interpersonal violence of all kinds, and secondly the importance of cross-fertilizing the professional fields of domestic violence, violence prevention and social change. Thus, the interventions, community campaigns, training programs, and publications of Transforming Communities specifically pilot, assess and promote strategies for domestic violence prevention as related to broader community issues.