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DVIP Services for Schools and Communities Do you have concerns about violence related problems in your school or with your child? Could your school benefit from specialized support regarding teen dating violence, anger management, youth empowerment or bullying prevention for your teachers, students and parents? How can your school utilize DVIP services? DVIP will work with you to create programming to address issues that are affecting the specific needs of your students. Our services are affordable and we have successfully found funding for every school, student or family that has expressed a need for our services. The Dating Violence Intervention Program may be just the help you seek. Currently we have contracts to work in seven schools in Cambridge and Somerville middle and high schools. Some of the services we provide are:
DVIP Trainings and Curriculum for Youth Providers Community Trainings: DVIP now offers informative trainings for community members and youth workers. In these trainings, DVIP educators will help teach how to respond to teens who may be dealing with dating violence as well as teaching all youth about how to enter into healthy relationships and prevent abuse. Our standard training is based on our new DVIP curriculum entitled "Understanding and Responding to Teen Dating Violence"; so you can learn how to facilitate the lessons from the curriculum as well as learn important insight about experiences of working with teens in crisis. In addition, we are happy to work with you to create a custom dating violence training that best fits your needs by teaching about specific youth violence issues that are affecting your youth.Please call 617-868-1650 or email dvip@transitionhouse.org for more information and costs. DVIP also provides workshops and training for school administrators, parents, and community organizations. Training sessions are tailored to the needs of the host organization, but always provides both general and in-depth information on dating violence, its complexities, its warning signs, how to intervene, and most importantly, how to communicate with youth involved in or affected by dating violence. Materials are also available for those who attend the training. Presentations have previously included the Somerville Department of Youth Services, Just a Start, the DSS Teen Living Program, the Cambridge Youth Peace and Justice Corps, and the Survivor Assistance of Boston to name a few. Groups are led by DVIP counselors experienced in domestic violence, youth counseling, and group facilitation. Consultation and case discussion occur as needed in meetings between the Counselor and the DVIP Program Director. The DVIP Curriculum You can now purchase the new Dating Violence Intervention Program curriculum! Stay informed when dealing with dating violence by familiarizing yourself with more than 12 lesson plans about how to teach students about dating violence and help them in crisis. Includes structured and comprehensive lesson plans with worksheets, icebreaker activities and debriefing tools. We suggest taking our DVIP community training in which a DVIP instructor will go over many of the lessons and offer insight from the writers of the curriculum who have taught in classrooms. The cost of the DVIP curriculum lesson plans is $150 and you can purchase it: Transition House DVIP Staff Contacts and Volunteers The Program Director of DVIP is Julie Kahn, LICSW. Prior to joining Transition House, Ms. Kahn had extensive experience providing crisis intervention and long term therapy to survivors of domestic violence in battered women's shelter and in participating in the development of program protocols and group curriculums in those shelters. She has been a school social worker providing primary therapeutic support to a therapeutic high school program and has provided long term psychotherapy to students with significant behavioral, emotional, and learning disabilities in the Boston Public Schools. Ms Kahn is also bilingual in Spanish and English. She holds a Master's Degree in Social Work from Smith College School for Social Work as well as a Bachelors Degree, cum laude, in Psychology and a minor in Spanish from the University of Massachusetts. Volunteers and Summer Student Interns DVIP is always looking for new volunteers and summer interns. Currently we are looking for volunteers that have graphic design skills and/or event planning and/or donation organizing skills as well as someone who can work during regular business hours. We are also looking for student interns for the summer who would like work regularly for DVIP. Schools Participating in Dating Violence Intervention Programs In the last program period, the Dating Violence Intervention Program reached approximately 3,500 youth, ages 12-19, with educational programs, individual clinical counseling, and community outreach. Participating schools have included:
Links to Teen Dating Violence Information Emerge: Information about Domestic Violence Intervention
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