Mentors In Violence Prevention Training Presented by Dan Lebowitz

812 Huntington Avenue,Boston MA 02115

19 August, 2021

Description

MVP is a dialogic, interactive learning platform that motivates educators and community organizations to prevent interpersonal violence. The Center is most recognized for its foundational Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program. MVP is a dialogic, interactive learning platform that motivates students, educators, community- based organizations, advocacy groups, first-responders, athletes and others to play a central role in preventing all forms of interpersonal violence. Utilizing an empowered bystander approach to prevention, that is both realistic and engaging and teaches actual skill sets, MVP positions participants not as potential abusers or survivors, but rather as leaders who can engage and challenge peers’ abusive behavior and change negative norms. Too often, trainings specific to interpersonal and domestic violence prevention are impractical. Participants feel that while the ideas are important, the issues are not relevant to their everyday lives at work, school, home or any other collective environ. MVP is designed so that participants will not only see how interpersonal violence affects their lives but more importantly, it provides the safe space to unpack the subsets of that violence and to create the cognitive skills requisite to confront it successfully.