1995 |
Harvard Educational Review publishes MVP co-founder Jackson Katz’s article “Reconstructing Masculinity in the Locker Room,” the first academic article to outline the new “bystander” MVP approach. |
1996 |
MVP, in partnership with the Liz Claiborne Company, produces one of the earliest Public Service Announcements on national television featuring college football players speaking out against gender violence. |
1997 |
The U.S. Marine Corps adopts MVP as its first system-wide gender violence prevention initiative. |
1998 |
The Newton, MA public school system pioneers MVP trainings system-wide in its middle schools. |
1999 |
MVP partners with the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention to implement multi-year programming in Sioux City, Iowa public high schools. |
1999 |
MVP conducts inaugural professional sports training, with New England Patriots players, coaches, and front office staff. |
2000 |
MVP is installed as a block of instruction in the curriculum of Staff Non-Commissioned Officer academies on U.S. Marine Corps bases worldwide. |
2000 |
MVP co-founder Jackson Katz is named to the U.S. Secretary of Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence in the Military. |
2006 |
Southeastern Conference (SEC) becomes the nation’s first athletic conference to implement and mandate MVP training throughout its membership. |
2006 |
MVP offers domestic and sexual violence prevention program as part of the National Football League’s official Player Development menu; MVP trains six teams in the first year. |
2006 |
MVP delivers training to team personnel from 18 teams in the Australian Football League. |
2007 |
The award-winning documentary, “Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” addressing misogyny and homophobia in rap music and produced by original MVP team member Byron Hurt, is broadcast nationally on PBS. |
2008 |
Big Ten Athletic Conference implements MVP conference-wide for student-athletes, coaches, and administrators. |
2008 |
MVP plays a key role in the design of the U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) Bystander Intervention Training and trains USAF personnel to implement the program throughout its ranks. |
2009 |
MVP selected as a model prevention program by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. |
2009 |
MVP conducts prevention trainings with U.S. Army personnel in war zones in Iraq. |
2010 |
MVP conducts first female professional sports training, with Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) New York Liberty players, coaches, and front office staff. |
2010 |
World Health Organization (WHO) cites MVP as an “empirically proven model for preventing violence against women.” |
2010 |
MVP-Australia launched at Griffith University in Brisbane, Queensland. |
2011 |
MVP develops and implements MVP-Navy with the U.S. Navy’s Center for Personal and Professional Development (CPPD). |
2011 |
MVP-Scotland launched in partnership with the Violence Reduction Unit of the Scottish National Police. |
2012 |
University of Northern Iowa opens the Center for Violence Prevention, based in part on principles of MVP, which plays a critical partner role. |
2012 |
MVP-Sweden launched in partnership with Stockholm-based NGO Men for Gender Equality. |
2012 |
MVP hosts first-ever international conference on bystander intervention, held in Boston, MA. |
2013 |
MVP begins training with senior and junior officers, enlisted leaders, and troops in the Australian Army. |
2014 |
MVP trains U.S. Army Special Operations Command Sexual Assault Response Coordinators at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. |