ANNUAL REPORT 2025
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Roots of Violence
Roots of Violence: A Changemakers Alliance Discussion Series From: Minnesota Women’s Press, by Mikki MorrissetteNote; This page contains excerpts from the whole article, featuring AVP Facilitators. To read the whole article, clickhere. Some of the Minnesota volunteers pictured here (l–r): Samantha Alexander, Shea Holt, Leah Robshaw Robinson, Fish Townsend, Rhiannon Thomas, James Scott, Rosa Cordova, […]
Emotional Intelligence Training For Prison Staff
Article in The Correctional Trainer, Summer 2021 by John Shuford. John, who has conducted AVP-Adapted trainings for Prison Staff for over 25 years, describes a missing component of traditional prison staff training.
Revisioning Staff Training
John Shuford, the author of this article in Corrections Today, has conducted AVP-Adapted trainings for Prison Staff for over 25 years.
AVP Trainings for DOC Staff
From a talk given by John Shuford, August 13, 2019. I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH AVP since 1989 and in 1993 was asked by the Delaware Department of Corrections (DOC) to provide similar trainings for their staff. I modified the focus of the trainings to be on teamwork, but the design is that of an […]
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The Missing Link in Reentry
[widget id=”display_username-7″] TACT (Teambuilding, Attitude, Conflict and Transformation) staff-development training utilizing AVP-adapted workshops. Read the article below from Corrections Today, March/April 2018. By John Shuford, AVP Facilitator and Correctional Training Coordinator II in the Department of Prisons at the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.  Beyond Security; Creating Safer Prisons utilizing AVP-adapted workshops. […]
Ex-con wins La Junta school board election
From Andy Koen on KOAA News 5, Colorado Springs: East Otero School Board Member elect Thomas Seaba served 13 years in prison for a Second Degree Murder conviction. A decade ago he was serving hard time for murder, but today a La Junta native has been elected to the East Otero School Board. Thomas Seaba […]
OJ Simpson lauds AVP
O.J. Simpson was just granted parole from Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada where AVP offers workshops. Â We recognise that OJ carries a lot of negative baggage around how lots of folks perceive him. Â However, that’s precisely the point: Â We feel that there is something of good in each one of us, no matter what our […]
AVP in Bakersfield
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