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The Violence Prevention Program (VPP): Program Components

Violence Intervention Project (VIP)

The Violence Intervention Project (VIP) is an innovative and effective model of intervention for individuals often categorized as "unreachable". Project participants are from the most volatile and impoverished Baltimore neighborhoods where profound social problems impact the entire community. They are entrenched in a "daily mode of survival" which encourages and sustains the occurrence of impaired judgment, risk taking behavior, interpersonal violence, illegal/illicit activity, self-medication, impulsive reactions, inconsistent education, decreased empathy/personal responsibility, complicated medical concerns, and under-employment. Participants have usually been both a victim and a perpetrator of interpersonal violence in their lives.

The VIP engages these individuals during a point of personal crisis and assists in the use of healthy coping techniques to resolve the problems at hand. This relationship establishes a supportive foundation from which additional positive changes are possible.


This page was last updated on: June 19, 2007.