Current Projects

The PVPI is currently providing program support for a number of violence prevention efforts in the community.  The following only includes current project projects (complete program list of past projects and project descriptions available upon request):

• Improvising Change Performance Education Troup Sehome High School
  Improvising Change is a peer based improvisational performance education troupe focused on preventing bullying and harassment by changing bystander behavior into ally behavior.  The PVPI's School of Performance Education provides all training and support for this highly successful project.

• Preventing Bullying and Harassment Through Ally Building Project: Lutheran Campus Ministry, Bellingham, WA
  The purpose of this ongoing project is to train college students involved in Lutheran Campus Ministry as paraprofessional violence prevention educators.  These paraprofessionals then present bullying and harassment prevention workshops to high school and middle school students.  Paraprofessionals have been successfully trained at Western Washington University, University of Florida, Marquette University, and Penn State University.

• Creating Sustainable Violence Prevention Programs at Youth and Family Homeless Shelters in Washington State
  The purpose of this project is to create sustainable, effective, and individualized violence prevention programs at youth and family homeless shelters in the state of Washington. 

• Recognizing and Responding to Relational Violence in Religious Communities
  The purpose of this project is to train church personnel to recognize and respond effectively to domestic and relational violence between adults and youth.