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Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Program

Mentors in Violence Prevention is currently taught in the middle and high schools in the Helena School District.  For more details regarding the timeline for implementation, please contact your local school.

http://www.sportinsociety.org/mvp.html  

MENTORS IN VIOLENCE PREVENTION (MVP) PROGRAM
Program Summary
The Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Program is a gender violence prevention and education program based at Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society. The multi-racial, mixed gender MVP team is the first large-scale attempt to enlist high school, collegiate and professional athletes in the effort to prevent all forms of men's violence against women. Utilizing a unique bystander approach to gender violence prevention, the MVP Program views student-athletes and student leaders not as potential perpetrators or victims, but as empowered bystanders who can confront abusive peers. Program participants develop leadership skills and learn to mentor and educate younger boys and girls on these issues.
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Bystander Approach to Prevention
By focusing on bystander behavior, MVP reduces the defensiveness and hopelessness that many men and women often feel when discussing men's violence against women. MVP aims to construct a new vision for society that does not equate strength in men with dominance over women.

 

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