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School Violence Prevention
Unresolved conflict is at the heart of violence in
our schools. Relationship Awareness tools such as
the Personal Values Inventory (the easy-reading
version of the SDI) give young people a way to
understand where conflict comes from and how to see
conflict as a potentially positive thing that can be
used to solve problems. Young people who learn to
see the value in others and in themselves are more
likely to invest time and energy in resolving
conflict for the benefit of all parties. It is our
sincere hope and wish that all schools will help
students to understand the importance of
relationships and learn how to build their own
self-worth while enhancing the self-worth of others.
To read an example of how the PVI could be used to
diffuse violence in the school please read the
Counseling section.
Welfare to Work
Numerous welfare-to-work transition programs
leverage the learning from the SDI or PVI to help
participants build effective, sustainable working
relationships. The Portrait of Personal Strengths is
used to help them identify the strengths that would
be valued by a potential employer and feature them
in resumes and interviews. The Portrait of Overdone
Strengths helps participants recognize how their
behavior may generate unwarranted conflict; then
learn to manage their behavior to prevent it.
Conflict management skills form an essential part of
these programs as many participants experience
significant conflict in their personal lives which
in turn impacts their job performance.
Job Training
Job training programs that serve "hard-to-serve" or
"at-risk" populations benefit from the integration
of the SDI or PVI when the participants learn to
work more effectively with other people. These
programs often start with self-acceptance, and then
move toward building acceptance and appreciation of
others as fundamental attitudes for being effective
in relationships at work. Participants can be
encouraged to examine their personal values and
identify the relationships that are critical to
their success - and those that might hinder their
progress. They can also identify career paths that
would be most rewarding. With this understanding,
they can create a plan to reach their goals. |
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