Empowering the Future:

The Transformative Benefits of Conflict Resolution for Youth

You possess the inner strength, intelligence, and compassion to navigate conflicts with wisdom and create a lasting, positive impact in your life and the lives of those around you. 


Youth Workshops have been done....

  • For juvenile Justice "clients" & in Young Offender Centers
  • In school Rooms: part of the curriculum or special class
  • For Teen Moms' groups
  • At Retreats
  • For street Gangs & Gang Exit Programs

AVP has always had an association with other youth and children's programs, such as CCRC (Children's Creative Response to Conflict) and HIPP (Help Increase the Peace Project. An emerging youth entity comprised of AVP facilitators, RAVE (Real Alternatives to Violence for Everyone), has been conducting workshops in New Jersey. 


HIPP is an experiential program for teens developed out of the Alternatives to Violence Project curriculum for prisons. It is an extremely effective program for building community, trust, compassion, empathy, conflict resolution skills, and reducing violence. HIPP and AVP workshops have been done around the world with gang members, prisons, and war zone victims. 


WHY WE NEED AVP-BOSTON IN OUR SCHOOLS!!!!

I encourage you to look at this article where a persistently dangerous school in Philadelphia saw a 90% reduction in violence and police calls. (Serious police calls went from 138 per year to 15.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/a-philadelphia-schools-big-bet-on-nonviolence/277893/ These results were obtained by training staff in the building and changing how they interacted with students. They returned after this to train students as well.

https://chng.it/FjcWLYgyzm 

With so many shootings and violence as another pandemic, I am compelled to reach out to everyone. As part of an international network of experts on violence prevention and trauma recovery, we have seen the transformative power of the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP). Originally used in prison settings, AVP is a noncoercive, nonviolent conflict resolution regimen that has been adopted in many schools. 

These workshops help students develop important social and emotional skills like self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship building, and decision-making. These skills are vital for success in both school and in life. The workshops also help students connect to caring adult mentors and positive peer mentors and create a community of connection and belonging. 

We urge Massachusetts to lead by example by implementing these programs statewide. Your signature can help make our schools safer for all children. Sign this petition today! DONT FORGET TO SHARE!!!!!!

https://chng.it/FjcWLYgyzm  

The Two Wolves Within

An old Grandfather said to his grandson, who came to him with anger at a friend who had done him an injustice...

"Let me tell you a story. I too, at times, have felt great hate for those who have taken so much, with no sorrow for what they do.

But hate wears you down, and does not hurt your enemy. It's like taking poison and wishing your enemy would die."

"I have struggled with these feelings many times. It is as if there are two wolves inside me; one is good and does no harm. He lives in harmony with all around him and does not take offense when no offense was intended. He will only fight when it is right to do so, and in the right way. But...the other wolf... ah! The littlest thing will send him into a fit of temper. He fights everyone, all of the time, for no reason. He cannot think because his anger and hate are so great. It is helpless anger, for his anger will change nothing."

"Sometimes it is hard to live with these two wolves inside me, for both of them try to dominate my spirit."

The boy looked intently into his Grandfather's eyes and asked, "Which one wins, Grandfather?"

The Grandfather smiled and quietly said, "The one I feed."

-- From the Cherokee tradition


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