PROJECT
Mentors in Violence Prevention
PURPOSE
To prevent bullying, gender-based abuse, and other abuse and violence among young people
FUNDING
£450,000 of Scottish government funding over three years until March 2018
BACKGROUND
Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) was founded in 1993 by US educator Jackson Katz to stop all forms of gender abuse, by training student leaders to speak out.
It was imported to Scotland in 2011 by chief inspector Graham Goulden at the Scottish government's Violence Reduction Unit. He modelled Scotland's approach on an MVP initiative at an Iowa school, enlisting Katz's help in spreading it to six schools in Edinburgh and Inverclyde. MVP is now overseen by Education Scotland and has around 2,500 mentors in 120 schools across 23 authorities. Around 16,000 pupils have been reached so far.
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