Welcome to AVP
On a Community Reintegration Field Trip, Omaha AVP toured The Joslyn art museum
TRANSFORMING POWER
TRANSFORMING LIVES
AVP is based on the belief that within everyone is a power that can bring a constructive solution to a potential conflict. It is in you and everyone you meet. We call it Transforming Power.
Omaha AVP invites anyone with a desire to connect with their inner power to change the world in nonviolent ways. Primarily working with incarcerated individuals in the Community Correction Center Omaha (aka Work Release). we offer traditional AVP approaches - workshops based on our proven non-violence curriculum, inspired by Kingian Nonviolence introduced in 1975 to the Green Haven Prison Think Tank by Dr Bernard Lafayette and further developed and expanded by the Quakers of New York .
In addition to the curriculum-based approach, Omaha AVP also helps restore the shine to inner Transforming Power jewels through Community Reintegration Field Trips such as the trip to The Joslyn museum in the photo above.
Years or decades of carceral social and spacial deprivation, leave most with anxieties and uncertainties about returning to the freeworld. Community Reintegration Field trips offer baby steps back into society and life beyond the confines of walls and regimented daily living.
Kind Khalid enjoying The Joslyn fountain courtyard on am AVP Community Reintegration Field Trip. He describes how AVP and community events benefit his life and reentry success,
Transforming Power
is at the heart of AVP transforming lives
"AVP gave me my humanity back."
Jovial Johnny
Family and Friends of the Incarcerated meeting
"Transforming Power is a very simple concept that while easily explained, is much harder to put into practice. I like to reduce the concept to choosing to act instead of react." read more
Kinetic Ken
Omaha Alternatives to Violence Project at all levels of participation and/or volunteerism welcomes people of all ages, religions, races, ethnicities, criminal histories, sexual orientations, genders, national origins, language preferences, abilities and limitations, ancestry, medical conditions, marital statuses, and life experiences.
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