Our Mission
Our mission is to engage individuals and the community to end domestic violence in Penobscot and Piscataquis Counties in Maine. We provide support, advocacy and safety planning to anyone affected by domestic abuse. We foster safe and healthy relationships through prevention, education and training. Together with our community we recognize the nature of abuse, respond to it, and change the conditions which lead to it.
Our Vision
We believe that every person deserves to live in peace and equality, and that just and respectful relationships can change the world.
Our Values
Over the course of several months in FY24, Partners for Peace staff and board members came together to create a shared Values Statement. We are proud to share these values, which will serve as a foundation for how we work, make decisions, and show up for one another. They reflect not only how we treat each other within our organization but also how we engage with survivors and our broader community.
Caring: We act with compassion, empathy, and respect in our support of individuals allowing them to find and sustain hope.
Belonging: We seek to foster a more equitable world by working to create a safe, inclusive, accessible, and diverse community in which all people can share their truth.
Authenticity: We work to continually align our actions with our words, welcoming and encouraging all people to live as their truest selves.
Growth: We pursue, create, and engage in opportunities to reflect, learn, and change, remaining flexible and adaptable to support others and ourselves.
Collaboration: We connect with our community and encourage all to listen and amplify the voices of those with lived experience and act together towards a more peaceful and just world.
Justice: We journey with people as they discover what justice means to them and advocate for systemic and social change.