“Treatment of families experiencing violence and abuse requires integrating the needs of the whole person. Thus, the importance of developing a shared understanding and cooperation between secular and religious helpers to deal with family violence cannot be emphasized too strongly.” -Rev. Marie M. Fortune, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and Founder and Senior Analyst for Faith Trust Institute, in “A Workshop Manual for Clergy and Other Service Providers”, published by the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence, 1980).
