The Specific Purpose of the Paz Foundation: Firstly, the afflicted and bondage of a broken heart knows no age or social status. Each year millions of people are confronted with crisis-inducing events that they cannot resolve on their own. Crisis intervention counseling is the emerging therapeutic method of choice for most abused individuals (per leading experts in the field). The Paz Foundation Domestic Violence Center will provide an in-patient refuge facility where victims and their families will receive 24/7 crisis intervention, help, and recovery. Therapeutic care will be given to an individual who, because of unusual stress in his or her life renders them unable to function as they normally would. Our primary objective is to “break the cycle of violence”, interrupt the downward spiral of maladaptive behavior, and return the individual to their usual level of pre-crisis functioning.