Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence

Chicago - Street Workers are key "violence interrupters"

Our note: the Providence Street Workers are doing these same activities. We're glad to see allies across the country. And, we're always thrilled when academia endorses the work of front line practitioners like street workers.

The violence virus
Boston Globe Op-Ed
By Susan C. Scrimshaw  |  April 22, 2007

IN URBAN areas across our nation, hardly a day goes by without news of a shooting. Many such incidents start with a rash argument between young people armed with guns. The typical response, when shootings increase, is to enhance law enforcement, but that is only part of the solution.

This deadly cycle of shootings is a public-health epidemic. By approaching it as such -- as a contagious disease of underlying expectations and pressures, one that is both treatable and preventable -- we can make significant progress toward halting it.

Job Opening: Director of Development

NOTE: This position has since been filled.

The Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence
Director of Development

The Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence’s mission is to teach by word and example the principles and practices of nonviolence and to foster a community that addresses potentially violent situations with nonviolent solutions.

The Institute for Nonviolence seeks an experienced professional to be responsible for raising philanthropic funds for the organization’s operating and program objectives.  This newly created position affords the Director of Development the opportunity to establish a sound, ethical and proficient fundraising infrastructure for the five-year-old Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence.

Providence Journal: At Jenks, nonviolent resolution is fun

The Providence Journal - Friday, April 6, 2007
By John Castellucci
Journal Staff Writer

PAWTUCKET — The audience was pumped, eager to hear the rap music, poetry and songs that everyone knew would be the fun part of the program.

But first, a couple of questions.

“I’d like to know, first of all, what you think are the biggest causes of violence,” said Pam Steager, taking the stage in Jenks Junior High School.

“Peer pressure,” one student answered.

“People pushing you into it,” another student said.

“Personality,” someone else answered.

“Seeing your parents fight.”

The answers to that question and to the question that followed — “What do you think are the ways that we could be more nonviolent?” — pleased Steager, who is director of training for the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence.

Trauma Surgical Team & ISPN Streetworkers presentation

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