by Lisa Schauer
“Anger doesn’t cause domestic violence,” said Jo Elliot, executive director of Community Alternatives to Violence, a batterer intervention and prevention program that serves residents in the Eastern Panhandle.
The program serves anywhere between 400 and 500 people a year in Morgan, Berkeley and Jefferson counties. 
“Domestic violence is a choice. Too often, batterers blame others instead of taking responsibility. They use anger as a threat to control,” said Elliot on why the…
