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?
VICTOR (Violence Intervention Collaborative Training Outreach & Research) aims to reduce community violence in the City of Newport News through the creation of a coordinated Crisis Response Network. VICTOR, enhanced with the CURE Violence and P.I.E.R. Models, engages community members and stakeholders in activities to improve knowledge of and ability to apply violence intervention strategies
VICTOR will work in partnership with community members and partner organizations who will address violence by using street outreach for information dissemination, community strategic meetings, mediation techniques and sharing information that supports conflict resolution. Direct intervention tactics will be centered in community while remaining focused on healing and education.
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 Abu Unity Incorporated, LaTonya "Abys" Denson, takes a restorative, public health, and community-rooted 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 a matter of months or years, but through the VICTOR program participants will see an increase in the safe and calm, “sunny days” that make their community a pleasure to live in.