Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP)
By empowering participants through our unique bystander approach to prevention, MVP enables communities to stand up against all forms of gender-based violence and challenges participants to understand and embrace their roles as leaders when faced with these issues.
Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP)
MVP trainings are a series of highly interactive facilitated discussions, not lectures. They provide concrete tools for confronting, interrupting and preventing gender-based violence. Research has shown that the more options a person has available to them, the more likely they are to non-violently intervene.
Since 1993 the Mentors in Violence Prevention Program (MVP) has addressed sexual assault and domestic violence at over 150 universities nationwide. MVP introduced the bystander approach as a strategy to combat relationship violence and sexual assault.
As indicated by the White House Task Force, the bystander model is “among the most promising” methods to engage men and women on college campuses around gender violence issues.
MVP is a life changer. It gave me an opportunity to examine healthy and unhealthy relationships at a critical time in my life. It provided me with a foundation to operate respectfully on both a personal and professional level and I draw upon lessons learned from that program almost daily.
Dave Hoffman, Senior Manager of Community Relations, Boston Celtics
Boston College has relied on Sport in Society to provide us with invaluable training and resources regarding every issue in athletics including sexual assault and bystander education. It has allowed us to try to be proactive in protecting our student-athletes and helping them to grow. MVP training is a vital program for men and women. Our partnership with Sport in Society has been positive in every way.
Jody Mooradian, Sr. Associate Athletic Director, Boston College
Become a leader in eliminating interpersonal violence by empowering and educating bystanders in your community.