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Making the Peace: A 15-session Violence Prevention Curriculum for Young People

NCJ Number
169325
Author(s)
P Kivel; A Creighton
Date Published
1997
Length
190 pages
Annotation
This manual provides educators, administrators, and youth group leaders with step-by-step instructions for delivering a 15-session youth curriculum on violence prevention.
Abstract
The lessons can be used during consecutive days or throughout a semester. They are designed for use in a classroom, an after-school or residential program, or a juvenile justice setting. The lessons explore the social and economic factors related to violence in the community and their own lives and develop skills to deal with dating violence, fights between males, fights between males and females, suicide, guns, and sexual harassment. They also present techniques for preventing violence, stopping it when it happens, and developing relationships free of violence in the school and the community. Additional topics include how violence is learned, the kinds of violence that happen to young people, the forms of violence, and the concept of being an ally in preventing self-destructive and interpersonal violence. Figures, forms, exercises, and resource lists