VIOLENCE PREVENTION

Mentors In Violence Prevention

For the past six years, the Waitt Family Foundation and now the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention has supported the Mentors in Violence Prevention programs in Sioux City High Schools and middle schools. MVP is a gender based anti violence and bullying curriculum implemented in public schools and pioneered by Jackson Katz.

Sioux City now has the highest concentration of MVP programs in the country.

Jackson Katz (r.) director of Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Strategies, speaks during a program for West HIgh School faculty and students at the Boys and Girls Home. Byron Hurt, associate director of MVP-Marine Corps is seated on the left.

Photo by Sioux City Journal photographer Jim Lee

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