Lori Hodin, Safe School Coordinator and psychology teacher at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, will be the featured speaker at the Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 3 p.m. in the Community Meeting Room of the Wayland Public Safety Building (38 Cochituate Road, Wayland).
Hodin will discuss the Courage to Care Program, which is based on the Mentors in Violence Prevention Program (MVP) developed by co-founder Jackson Katz at Northeastern University’s Center for Sport in Society in 1993. Using a curriculum framed in sports terms, student leaders are trained to respond to gender violence and promote positive social change in their community.
Hodin will also discuss the Courage to Care Program’s impact at L-S. In March 2015, the high school hosted its second annual Courage to Care Healthy Relationship Summit, at which the L-S Mentors in Violence Prevention team hosted 13 local schools and 200 students from all over Massachusetts who are trained as facilitators in the MVP Program. The students gathered to generate ideas, share tips, and get inspired to develop safe and strong school communities.
The program is free and open to the public. Join the Roundtable to learn more about how our local schools can empower teens to be active bystanders who intervene and interrupt abuse.
Volunteer advocate training
The Domestic Violence Services Network, Inc. (DVSN) is offering a Volunteer Advocate Training program at the Concord Police Department from September 29 through October 17. This 40-hour training session takes place over a three-week period on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:30-9:30 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Once trained, DVSN Volunteer Advocates provide direct service over the phone and at the Concord District Court to people affected by domestic violence. This 40-hour training is designed to familiarize you with many aspects of domestic violence and to give you the skills necessary to provide confidential and appropriate services.
DVSN is a community-based organization that works to combat domestic violence in collaboration with the police departments of its 11 member towns (Acton, Bedford, Boxborough, Carlisle, Concord, Lexington, Lincoln, Maynard, Stow, Sudbury, and Wayland), Hanscom Air Froce Base, and the Concord District Court. The Roundatable and the DVSN are separate organizations, although the executive director of the Roundatable serves on the board of the DVSN.
For more information and/or to request a training application, please call 978-318-3421 or e-mail zapsler@concordma.gov. Applications are due by September 22.