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Partnership Project Teams
Project Safe Choices: Challenging Young Men’s Violence, is a coordinated community response approach to addressing violence reduction with young men in the 12-17 age range. Part of the Domestic Abuse Education Program, based in Burlington, the Project provides educational groups and programming and school-based trainings in several counties in the northwestern and central regions of the state. During the past year, the Anti-Violence Partnership collaborated with DAEP Project Safe Choices team to assist in the development of a state-funded evaluation project to help the agency measure the efficacy and potential expansion and replication of the model. For more information, go to the website http://www.spectrumvt.org/domestic_abuse_ed.html
AVP is responsible for the initial five year implementation of The Vermont Approach: A Strategic Plan for Comprehensive, Collaborative Sexual Violence Prevention in Vermont(PDF),unveiled at an April 2006 event with policymakers and stakeholders, providing a conceptual framework for defining sexual violence prevention statewide. The 2009 Annual Report to the Legislature from the Vermont Approach (PDF)describes current efforts. The project’s Leadership Forum guides the on-going vision and implementation for the seven strategies in the strategic plan, and active work groups assist the staff with implementation planning for each of the strategies. One recent activity was a Vermont K-12 schools survey about sexual violence prevention education, A Snapshot of Sexual Violence Prevention
Education in Vermont (PDF): Programs offered by K-12 schools and community-based agencies. The AVP administers the Vermont Approach through state funding granted to the University of Vermont Department of Social Work. Contact Anne Liske at 802-656-4322 or anne.liske@uvm.edu for more information.
University of Vermont Department of Social Work Anti-Violence Partnership Education
This project facilitates knowledge transfer across three levels of social work education (BSW, MSW foundations & concentration) and curricular areas (practice, policy, research, and field education). Last summer MSW students participated in a new elective entitled Social Work and Social Movement Approaches to Violence and Human Rights. This academic year nine BSW and MSW students integrated and applied their field and classroom learning together in a AVP field seminar focused on violence, human rights, social and economic justice, and social work practice. Five MSW students completed Final Projects on school based violence, and bearing witness to those who have experienced violence, and one MSW student completed her advance practice field practicum in the AVP. An undergraduate completed an independent study on school based violence prevention, and another was awarded an undergraduate research grant to study the reporting practices of college student sexual violence survivors. Instruction and coordination have been provided by Susan Roche, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work and practitioners in Anti-Violence Partnership organizations.
How to Become an Anti-Violence Partnership Project Team
Standards for Antiviolence Partnership Proposals
The ANTIVIOLENCE PARTNERSHIP standards guide the Antiviolence Partnership to support and sustain unified approaches within the community and the world to understand and change the existence and acceptance of violence and works toward its prevention and elimination.
- Antiviolence Partnership projects are collaborations between at least 3 agencies or 2 agencies and UVM.
- Antiviolence Partnership projects work to protect and advance the right to safety and promote the community’s responsibility and capacity to ensure that right.
- The proposed project promotes the Antiviolence Partnership’s core values of safety, agency, restoration, accountability and justice.
- Antiviolence Partnership projects promote meaningful victim/survivor participation in major phases of the planning and implementation processes.
- Antiviolence Partnership projects support partnerships that demonstrate collaborative norms and strategies that include: mutual respect, recognition of the knowledge, expertise and resource capacities of all the participants in the process, flexibility in ways of working together, creating broad collective wisdom, and shared responsibility
- Antiviolence Partnership based projects produce and disseminate findings in clear language(s) and in ways that will be useful and accessible to the community.
- For protection of participants, the project design must be approved by the Antiviolence Partnership Standards Subcommittee to ensure compliance with standards and procedures of the University of Vermont’s Institutional Review Board or other applicable standards.
Application for Antiviolence Partnership Sponsorship and Assistance
Proposal Outline and Guidelines
- Cover Letter (2 paragraphs)
Succinctly state the title, purpose, and the type of assistance you are seeking from the Antiviolence Partnership. Briefly introduce your organization, its legitimacy for proposing this project, and the contact person.
- Description of the Proposed Project (Up to 3 pages)
Describe the specific issue to be addressed by the proposed project, its scope, and significance. Briefly, include previous and current efforts to address the issue and the results.
- Identification of Partners Involved, and a Description of their Involvement (1 page)
- Need for the Proposed Project the Project (3 pages)
Please describe who specifically is to benefit and how they will benefit from the proposed project (e.g., anticipated benefits to external constituents, communities, and partner organizations)
- Project Evaluation (Up to 2 pages)
The evaluation of the project should reflect accountable partnership and assess the project’s impact on those it intends to serve.
- Sustainability (1 page)
How are you thinking about sustainability of this project, if appropriate? How would you envision a sustainable project?
- Project Budget (if applicable)
Present a line item budget that projects the personnel and other expenditures and all income sources.
- Antiviolence Sponsorship Request (2 pages)
What is the nature of the sponsorship you are seeking from the Antiviolence Partnership?
- APPENDICES
- Appendix A: Please provide information about the applicants
- Appendix B: A support letter from each community partner/collaborator must be included.
Send application to:
Dr. Susan Roche
Department of Social Work
85 North Prospect Street
436A Waterman Building
Burlington , Vermont 05405
Questions for Collaborators
The following is a list of questions that may be helpful to applicants to guide discussions between collaborators seeking Antiviolence Partnership sponsorship
- Does the project match with the Antiviolence Partnership mission statement to, “…support and sustain unified approaches within the community and the world to understand and change the existence and acceptance of violence and works toward its prevention and elimination.”?
- Are the [project goals compatible with the goals set forth by the Antiviolence Partnership?
- Who will do what?
- What resources are needed?
- What are the benefits?
- Who owns the data?
- What about negative results?
- What are the various interests in the use of the data?
- What processes will we follow for presentations, publication/authorship?
- How will we safeguard participants and protect confidentiality?
- What process will we follow for conflict resolution in our work together?
- Where is the enthusiasm and energy for this process? Where are the areas of openness in the community for doing this work? Who cares?
- How will this benefit our clients, and community members?
- What are the risks and to whom? ‘
- Are there others doing similar work that can inform the project design or who might benefit from knowing about this proposed project?
- What do you hope to accomplish?
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