Pacific Violence Prevention Institute STAFF
Jonathan Berry
Executive Director
Jonathan Berry is a nationally recognized expert in
preventing bullying, harassment, and related violence through ally
building techniques. His background includes training and
experience in sexual assault prevention, men’s violence prevention,
prejudice reduction and community building, ally building, sexual
health, and performance education. While a student at Western
Washington University, Mr. Berry received extensive training in the
areas of violence prevention, diversity and community building,
performance education, and sexual health and risk reduction counseling,
while working with Prevention and Wellness Services in the Lifestyle
Advisor Program, a peer health education program. During his time
as a Lifestyle Advisor he was a founding member of Western Men Against
Violence, an organization whose goals are to prevent violence in the
community, especially sexual assault and violence against women.
During the five years as a member of WMAV, Mr. Berry was responsible for
developing and facilitating programs and planning special events.
He is a state registered sexual health counselor, and served as an HIV
Tester/Risk Reduction Counselor. Also as a Lifestyle Advisor, he
was a member of the peer-based, performance health education troupe,
Will Act for Change, where he spent a year as a student coordinator.
As a student coordinator he was responsible for training and supervising
Will Act for Change. During his last year in the program, he was
selected as a Student Core Staff Member of Prevention and Wellness
Services, and teaching staff for course Health Education 250, the
5-credit course required for entry into the Lifestyle Advisor Program.
Throughout his tenure as a Lifestyle Advisor, Mr. Berry helped to write,
implement, and facilitate numerous violence prevention programs, ally
building programs, and prejudice reeducation and community building
programs.
Mr. Berry is the Executive Director of the PVPI and he is the director of the
PVPI’s School of
Performance Education, and is the author of its training program.
He has developed and implemented many of the other programs offered by
the PVPI, including programs for educational, corporate, and religious
communities. He has implemented and supervises performance
education troupes at multiple high schools in the state of Washington.
Mr. Berry is a certified trainer for the National Coalition Building
Institute, and international organization dedicated to reducing
prejudice and building stronger communities.
Mr. Berry's book, 4 Steps to a Safer School Environment, will be released in 2009, and is a resource for school administrators, teachers, parents, and community leaders to help them implement programs that will lead to cultural change in their schools.
Bullying and Harassment Prevention
