Executive Director of the Rowan House Emergency Shelter Sherrie Botten says there's still a ways to go on educating the community, and Rowan House is working with young boys to prevent future abuse.

"Of course we house women and children, not men. But the work that we do with young boys and the youth in the community is certainly the work that we look to do for prevention in the future. We are also looking at doing a men's healthy relationship group."

Botten says anyone can access information on abuse by calling Rowan House, and they will go out and give a presentation on what domestic violence is and what a healthy relationship looks like. She says a recent survey for the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters shows that there is still education to be done, as men find yelling at one's partner less acceptable that in 2012, but still don't consider it a real form of abuse.

"There's still a ways to go, because one thing has been identified that the emotional or the verbal abuse hasn't been identified as strongly as we would see as a link to domestic violence. So there's still education to be done in terms of all the different forms of domestic violence that do exist."

She says Rowan House goes into schools and community groups to educate people on what constitutes abuse.

"Currently Rowan House does work with men and boys in the community. So that's our prevention work that we do in school as well as with community groups. We go into schools and we talk about healthy relationships, about dating violence, about bullying with the younger kids. We also go into the community and talk about what is domestic violence, what does it look like?"

Botten says Rowan House is considering starting a healthy relationship group for men, which would go a long way towards educating the community. She says men are saying they want to find out about abuse prevention, they want their sons to find out about it in schools and maybe their sporting activities.