Voices in Prevention
Voices in Prevention (VIP) is Tubman’s 6-week violence prevention curriculum. This curriculum is taught in middle and high schools in Hennepin, Ramsey and Washington counties. VIP offers additional services including support groups, one-on-one sessions, peer mediation, and service learning.
For more information, call (612) 825-3333 or email teens@tubman.org.
Violence Prevention Curriculum:
- Lesson One: Defining Violence
- Differentiating between healthy and unhealthy relationships
- Defining domestic violence and identifying its many complex forms
- Lesson Two: Building Empathy
- Defining empathy and its role in understanding domestic violence
- Identifying the roots of domestic violence and behavioral patterns in relationships
- Lesson Three: You and Your Environment
- Introducing gender role socialization and how it can impact individuals and relationships
- Understanding personal power and exploring tools to use it in healthy ways
- Lesson Four: Regulating Emotions and Coping
- Identifying emotional triggers and how to respond with regulated behavior
- Defining and honoring physical and emotional boundaries
- Lesson Five: Communication
- Identifying listening styles and how these styles can impact others
- Exploring how various patterns of communication can affect the outcome of a conflict
- Lesson Six: Tools for Creating Change
- Identifying personal and community resources
- Exploring how to create change within ourselves and in the community
