Mentors in Violence Prevention at MCC (MVP-MCC) recently completed our fourth annual spring Train the Trainers program, held March 21-22-23, 2013 on the Damon City Campus (DCC). MCC faculty, staff, students and community members participated in this year’s Training and we are proud to now have over 100 mentors in our communities who are educating others about social injustice and the gendered causes of most types of interpersonal violence.
MVP was founded in 1993 at Northeastern University by leading anti-violence educator, Jackson Katz (HYPERLINK "https://www.jacksonkatz.com"www.jacksonkatz.com), who visited DCC in 2008 and gifted us this proven effective curriculum. MCC is one of just three colleges in the U.S. and the only community college with an MVP Program. MVP is also utilized in all branches of the U.S. military, professional, college and high school sports teams, NAASCAR and many other organizations.
MVP-MCC includes curriculum infusion in Criminal Justice, Sociology and Speech Communications coursework, bystander intervention training, co- and extra-curricular programming, and service work. With our recent graduating class, we will expand curriculum infusion into additional Criminal Justice courses, as well as into English, Health Education and Psychology coursework. We also have other exciting initiatives we are working on and will update as details develop.
We are also working on our new MVP in Action Scholarship, generously created by the MCC Foundation. It is a full academic year scholarship at MCC and will be awarded to a deserving student who pledges to work towards non-violence. To learn more about how you and/or your students can get involved, please contact any of the MVP-MCC Leadership Team, which includes Susan Bender (VaPA), Tracey Britton (Student Services), Joe Sturnick (Law & Criminal Justice) and me.
I have attached a couple of pictures, including one of our recent graduating class. If you recognize any of your colleagues and/or students, please be sure to congratulate this new MVP who worked very hard for this credential! Thank you and stay tuned for more MVPinACTION!
Christine Plumeri
AHPS and Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP-MCC)
03/29/2013
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