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Contact information:

Center for Peace Education        103 William Howard Taft Rd
Cincinnati, OH 45219

Website:

www.cincinnati-peace.org

Mission/Goals: Founded in 1979, the Center for Peace Education (CPE) was established to create systemic change in Cincinnati neighborhoods by teaching youth and adults skills in resolving conflict constructively, communicating effectively, collaborating and valuing differences in others.

Notes: CPE facilitates conflict management training for over 30 schools and 5,000 individuals each year in the Greater Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky area, focusing much attention on elementary schools in high crime, low-income, and mostly minority neighborhoods. In the past 25-years, CPE has organized conflict resolution programs in every Cincinnati public school (total of 84), from small teacher workshops to the comprehensive school-wide infusion of our curriculum. CPE organizes a group of professional trainers who teach conflict resolution skills through an in-classroom curriculum entitled Student’s Creative Response to Conflict (SCRC). This program was adopted from New York-based Creative Response to Conflict, Global. CPE works to create a comprehensive conflict management program in each school that can be sustained by the school community within 3-5 years. A few programs, including the after-school peace teams and the Teen Action Teams, have been suspended due to budget cuts. The Center still runs a Peace Pals mentoring program (where younger students are mentored by older students) and a Peace Camp during the summer, as well as their regular Students' Creative Response to Conflict violence prevention program and a peer mediation program, among others.

Source(s): www.guidestar.org;
www.cincinnati-peace.org
 

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Type of Evaluation: Outcomes Monitoring

Objective: To examine how the Students' Creative Response to Conflict influenced students.

Impact/Outcome Findings: In one evaluation, two of eight students reported being more likely to say nice things to others. Five of eight members were more likely to try to talk things out after participating in the program. Improvements were also made in liking to help others, talking about feelings, and dealing with anger. Four of the eight children increased in the amount of friends that looked differently from them before the class compared with after. In the other evaluation, 71.4% of students reported feeling good about themselves all the time, 57.1% reported sometimes telling people when they were in a bad mood or their feelings were hurt, and 28.6% reported that they often or always told people. More than half of the participants reported that they often or always thought about what they were going to do after eighth grade. More than three-quarters often or always shared with others and nearly three-quarters talked out their disagreements. Less than a third of students reported they often or always did things to be like their friends and yelled at people when they were in a bad mood. Nearly all participants reported that they sometimes or half the time made fun of people or hit/punch people.