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
Partner Locations for VIP
Thank you to the following schools and community sites for hosting the Voices in Prevention curriculum or one-time presentations during 2019:
AGAPE High School
Ann Bremer Education Center
Anwatin Middle School
Battle Creek Middle School
Career and Life Transition Program
Como Park High School
East Ridge High School
Edison High School
Face 2 Face Academy
Farnsworth Aerospace
Gordon Parks High School
Harding High School
Hastings High School
Highland Park High School
Irondale High School
Longfellow Community School
Maple Grove Middle School
New Heights Charter School
Next Step Transition Center
North Community High School
North Saint Paul High School
Oakland Middle School
Paragon Treatment Center
Park Center Senior High
Roosevelt High School
Roseville Area High School
Roseville Area Middle School
Simley High School
Solid Ground MN
South High School
St. Anthony Village High School
Stillwater Area High School
Stillwater Junior High School
Twin Cities Academy
Washington Tech High School
White Bear Lake ALC
White Bear Lake North Campus
Woodbury High School