Nonviolence Training Workshop: Choose Peace, not Violence
In recent years, we've seen, heard about, or read numerous media accounts about youth violence across the United States—from bullying to cyber bullying to gun violence. While youth violence, which includes bullying, threatening remarks, physical fights, electronic aggression, and school violence, is not a national epidemic, the number of incidents seem to be on the rise. According to the CDC, in a 2011 national survey, about 33% of high school students reported being in a physical fight in the 12 months before the survey; 20% reported being bullied on school property and 16% reported being bullied electronically.
No doubt, youth in our own community have encountered some form of youth violence. How can youth violence be prevented? Stop it before it begins.
To that end, the MLK Committee of Greater Attleboro and the Attleboro YMCA will host a nonviolence training workshop on Saturday, January 18, 2014, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., at the Attleboro YMCA, Pleasant Street Branch, 537 Pleasant Street.
During the one-hour, hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to resolve conflict without violence by using Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s principles of nonviolence. The workshop, led by the Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence, Providence, RI, is free and open to youth, parents, and community leaders.
For more information, contact Lakisha Leach, youth program director, Attleboro YMCA at (508) 409-0742 or at lleach@attleboroymca.org.
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