The Mentors in Violence Prevention Program (MVP) is an approach to gender violence and bullying prevention and is designed to give students in secondary school the skills to speak out against issues which affect relationships within our schools and communities by adopting a positive ‘bystander’ approach.  Through peer mentoring, younger students are encouraged to consider and discuss different scenarios such as behaviour online, the use of harmful language, coercive control, gender labelling and alcohol and consent.  They are then provided with a range of safe options which can prevent situations from escalating.

The development team at Education Scotland are running online capacity building sessions (for those schools already running MVP) and will be releasing new dates in the new session.  These will be communicated directly.

If you work in a secondary school and are interested in getting involved with MVP, training would be targeted to your setting.  Please get in touch with Fiona Hewitt for more information and to arrange dates.

To find out more about MVP in Renfrewshire, click here to view the MVP page on the HWB blog.