FVPF

The Family Violence Prevention Fund works to create a violence free community a

nd reaches out to help those whose lives have been devastated by violence. The FVPF has been breaking new ground for a long time now and recently reached new audiences including teenagers and men. This is valuable to our project because they have recently been trying to reach and raise awareness amongst an age group that we are also targeting at the moment. This is a Much larger and International organization that has made large contributions to the International Violence Against Women Act. They wrote the platform for action in the UN confer

ence on Womens rights in Bejing and launched one of the first campaigns in public education to raise awareness on the issue. They are currently running a lot of problems dealing with various aspects of domestic violence. One of their interesting programs is “ Coaching men into boys” They believe that providing good role models for young boys and will benefit the society and reduce future domestic violence. The CBIM was started out in 2001 as an awareness campaign designed to inspire men to educate their students and sons to respect women and to caution them against domestic violence. However now this

program has grown into a curriculum that is given to coaches or teachers in schools and they apply it to their athletes or classroom. They also do things like aid victims of domestic violence in and out of the courtroom they provide judicial as well as financial aid. The program that they have recently started with teenagers not only teaches them what domestic violence is , how to avoid it and whom to contact but also how to build healthy relationships so that you don’t have to deal with domestic violence in the first place.