Illinois Center for Violence Prevention

ICVP's

ICVP opened the state’s first Training & Coaching Institute dedicated to affordable, comprehensive training in violence prevention and integrated on-site coaching and consultation to facilitate training knowledge application. This project will expand and coordinate ICVP’s work to build the capacity of community-based organizations, schools, and systems to implement effective, quality programs based on acknowledged best practices, evidence-based models, and innovative and promising violence prevention practices.

This formal institute builds upon one of ICVP's major mission areas to provide information, technical assistance, intensive consultation and training designed to build the capacity of organizations, communities and systems to identify and implement comprehensive violence prevention efforts.

Currently, we host trainings throughout the year, an annual conference, events and workshops and regional meetings that integrate training and networking opportunities in four regions throughout Illinois. We also respond to hundreds of information requests and provide on-site, individualized technical assistance and consultation to violence prevention programs. The Training & Coaching Institute will also offer Coaching services to help training participants apply information learned into on-site practice.

Three times a year, we publish Violence Prevention News, an informational newsletter on best practices, resources, and trends in the field of violence prevention. This newsletter is sent to ICVP's membership, and in July 2005 our first e-newsletter will be available.

Programs, schools, and individuals frequently call on us for information and referrals on violence prevention research, best practice programs, statistics, and local resources to connect with. We encourage you to navigate our site, especially the PreventNet database to find local resources in your community and Resources pages which has multiple links to resource sites around the country.

Violence Prevention Works
Winter 2007 Newsletter

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History and Goals

The creation of the Training & Coaching Institute was originally conceptualized in tandem with ICVP’s Evaluation Resource Institute in envisioning a seamless capacity building and quality improvement system for violence prevention programs in Chicago and across Illinois.

The concept was revisited again in August 2001, during the ICVP's strategic planning process to develop a measured course for the organization’s growth and direction over the subsequent four years.

Out of this plan, three major areas of focus emerged for the organization as a whole, which the Training & Coaching Institute will also directly address:

Expanded visibility of the organization and of the effectiveness of violence prevention practices.
Expansion and enhancement of a network of violence prevention advocates.
Expansion and enhancement of skills, knowledge base, and best practice strategies in the field.

For more information please contact the Training and Coaching Institute at training-coaching@icvp.org or call (312)986-9200.