Mark Larson

Mark has a lifelong commitment to confronting men’s violence toward women and supporting safe and respectful relationships. His experience working with domestic violence offenders and domestic violence services incorporates fifteen years of facilitation, program management, training, and consultation. He began working with men who batter in 1992 as a facilitator of batterer intervention groups.

Mark currently works as a consultant focusing on strengthening systemic responses to domestic violence offenders. He provided technical assistance to batterer intervention programs and facilitates a collaborative certification program for batterer intervention programs in Vermont. He also provides training on domestic violence, men who batter, efforts to prevent and intervene in domestic violent cases.

Mark was previously the Program Director of the Domestic Abuse Education Project (DAEP). DAEP is the largest batterer intervention program in Vermont, providing services to over 400 men who batter per year throughout Vermont. His responsibilities included recruitment, training and supervision of program staff, curriculum development, and collaboration with a range of community and state partners. Mark oversaw the development of programming for men who batter, incarcerated offenders, fathers with histories of domestic violence, and young men who engage in violence.

Mark has provided training to batterer intervention programs, probation officers, child protection workers, domestic violence advocates, and community members. He currently provide training on responding to domestic violence within children protection cases to new social workers within the Connecticut Department for Children and Families.

Mark co-authored the Vermont Standards for Domestic Abuse Intervention. These Standards set minimal expectations for batterer intervention programs in Vermont.

Mark has served as a member of the Vermont Council on Domestic Violence and the Vermont Domestic Violence Fatality Review Commission. He also is a state representative, serving as the Vice Chair of the Appropriations Committee in the Vermont House of Representatives.