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Are you concerned about violence or the threat of violence in your school or your community? Are you seeking a proactive approach to dealing with this national tragedy of increasing violence? The Institute for Peace and Justice (IPJ) has developed a dynamic program that teaches high school and middle school youth to be peace educators with elementary students. Teens Acting for Peace (TAP), a national youth violence prevention training program, is actively "tapping" the creativity and energy of the nation's youth to help build peaceful schools and communities. One and two day training models are used to train groups of students from one or more schools on the Pledge of Nonviolence, which consists of 7 components: Respect Self and Others, Listen, Communicate Better, Forgive, Play Creatively, Respect Nature and Be Courageous. The TAP program includes three comprehensive resources: the Adult Advisor Training Manual, the Youth Instructor Workbook, and the Lesson Plan Resource Book. These complement the many other resources that are available from IPJ. The goals of TAP are
TAP provides a model of action for teens on issues of
violence and offers resources and a cadre of trainers ready to work with
your students and adult advisors.
TAP is part of the Institute's Families Against Violence
initiative (FAVAN).
a coalition of national organizations, faith communities and local community
groups, schools and families. FAVAN’s
strategy is to provide alternatives to violence at all levels of human
interaction through the use of the Pledge
of Nonviolence. This Pledge
has been translated into 13 different languages, has been adapted for
use in congregations, workplaces, prisons and schools, and has been embraced
by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States alone. In 1999, Dr. James McGinnis, co-founder of the Institute
of Peace and Justiceand author of the Pledge,
began training youth in a St. Louis area high school to present the Pledge to elementary
kids. From this groundbreaking work in St. Louis, TAP was born, has spread to Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Grand Rapids,
Cincinnati, and Lakewood, New Jersey and is beginning to be used in many
other areas throughout the United States. |
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