Welcome To The VICTOR Program
Violence Intervention Collaborative Training Outreach Research
Welcome To The VICTOR Program
Violence Intervention Collaborative Training Outreach Research
What Is Victor?
The VICTOR program is a 3-year grant program aimed to reduce community violence in the City of Newport News and create a Crisis Response network. This will be accomplished through strategic collaboration on new, innovative projects that are community-centered, healing-centered, and education-focused, and utilize direct intervention tactics.
The program was started to fill a need in a community desperate to alter the trend of violence. The city of Newport News has seen an influx in violent crime over the last few years, especially in the area of gun violence. The current solutions have had a stagnant and sometimes negative effect on the problem. The idea, born from the founder of one of the partner organizations, LaTonya "Abys" Denson, takes a restorative, public health, and community-based approach to violence by utilizing a three tier (prevention, intervention, and healing) methodology to decrease the levels of violence in the city.
Our Message
This too shall pass: Just like with weather, we will have gloomy days, we will have storms, but after every storm, the sun will shine again.
Violence is not something that can be eliminated in just 3 years or even 10 years, but through the VICTOR program participants will see an increase in the safer, calmer, “sunny days” that make their community a pleasure to live in.