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The mission of Project PAVE is to empower youth to end the cycle of relationship violence. The agency's goal is to stop the generational cycle of emotional, sexual, and physical abuse within families through violence prevention, education, and intervention services. Project PAVE is proud to have celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2006. The agency's founders established Project PAVE in 1986 in conjunction with a tragic incident in which a well-known attorney who was representing a woman in a domestic violence case was shot and paralyzed by her client's estranged husband. Understanding that children exposed to violence often become victims or perpetrators later in life, the agency's programs are tailored to the meet the unique needs of children and youth who are victims and/or witnesses of physical assault, sexual assault, child abuse, domestic violence, and teen dating violence. Project PAVE's programs implement two effective strategies: awareness and outreach that prevent violence and often results in the identification of victims of violence, followed by clinical counseling that addresses the impact of violence on victims and their families. Because Project PAVE partners with elementary, middle, and high schools throughout our community, many PAVE clients are students in the schools identified as victims of relationship violence or are referred by area youth service providers. Although domestic violence, teen dating violence and child abuse are found in all communities, Project PAVE focuses its resources on underserved populations. We work primarily with low-income families and provide bilingual/bicultural services to the Hispanic community.