The report notes that intervention standards promote the elimination of domestic violence by providing guidelines for ethical and accountable intervention systems to protect battered women and children while seeking to eliminate domestic violence. Such standards establish the minimum level of responsibility, service, and accountability expected from providers. In addition to presenting a statement of philosophy and the purposes of intervention standards, a discussion of the fundamentals of batterer intervention services considers principles of practice and ethical standards for intervention programs in Pennsylvania. A section on interface standards addresses funding guidelines, intervention programs and battered partners, intervention programs and the justice system, and intervention service and domestic violence programs. A section on the structural components of intervention services discusses intake contract components, confidentiality, participant rules, discharge, partner contact, intervention approaches, networking, staff, advertising and public information policy, community education component, and monitoring intervention programs. The section on intervention content contains a curriculum outline. Seven appendixes present supplementary information and material for various intervention standards.