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State Cites AVP;Joint-Concern of2 Committees

ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE(AVP), NYYM's program for prison resi-dents, was cited recently in a letter fromthe N,Y. State Department of Correc-tional Services as "one of the best exam-ples. .. of positive citizen input into'thecorrectional process." The letter byExecirtive Assistant Arthur M. Clarkestates that Corrections CommissionerBenjamin Ward "is very enthusiastic con-cerning this project. He is grateful loryour efforts and looks forward to a con-ffiitftrcdswhich'lrxr offer." Fealure articles about AVP..*6re;..eci in the Oct*b'er. l97tr and the.itl', . 'q:' irrues +f ihe Depanment s ;;ub-iicalion.

Corectional Services News.

AVP has had programs in 9 N.Y. Stateprisons since its inception in March, 1975.

Interest has spread among inmates whosee its immediate applicability in theirrelations with fellow inmates. officers andthe prison administration. But many of themore than 400 inmates who have taken thethree solid days of AVP training have alsonoted its value after they are released inrelationships in their families and in deal-ing with the problems that arise when theyare back on the streets. Some havebecome AVP trainers working with otherinmates or have joined AVP teams afterrelease in order to help others still inside.

In order Io meet ihe growing demandfor the Program a comprehensive trainingprogram for outside trainers within anorganizational structure had ro bedeveloped. There are now Regional AVPCouncils in the Mid-Hudson. Syracuseand Downstate areas. Training for trainersseminars have been held at Oakwood.School, Flushing Meeting House. Pough-keepsie Meeting House, Syracuse andAlbany. A large proportion of the partici-pants have been NYYM Friends.

AVP senimars focus on exercises de-signed to build a sense of seif worth.caring for others, gaining a sense of com-munity, creating habits of cooperationwith co-workers, thinking before reacting,putting ones seif in the shoes of one's ad-versaries, analyzing conflicts and trying tofind non-violent solutions.

AVP operates under the Quaker Projecton Community Conflict of NYYM's Peaceand Social Action Program in cooperationwith the NYYM Prison Committee. It isdependent aimost entirely on the SharingFund for its support.

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,4t Green Hauen inrnates arranged for presen-tation oJ AVP training certi.ficates.

NYYM DEMONSTRATIONINSPIRED WASHINGTON

AREA GROUPLast year a workshop at Powell House

sponsored by the Prisons Committee fea-tured a session on Alternatives toViolence training, which is one of the pro-jects of the Peace and Social Action Pro-gram. One immediate result is that a newAlternatives to Violence Workshop Train-ing Group now functions in the Washing-ton, D.C., Cheaspeake Bay and WestVirginia area. Bill Conway writes fromthe Quaker Center for Prisoner SupportActivities in Bowie, Maryland, that thetraining project is a direct result of thetraining demonstration at Powell House."A group of 15 trainers have targetedthree prisons with (not for) inmates,trained lor preparation to join occupationof Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant site,and are interested in conducting work-shops for any group or organization."

The Quaker Center for Prisone rSupport Activities is sponsored by theFriends World Committee for Consulta-tion. Section of the Americas.

Rochester InvitesRepresentatives

for May 20Rochester Meeting is inviting Repre-

sentatives to Rochesler May 20, 1977, forthe spring Representative Meeting. Victo-ria Cooley who will serve as coordinatorif the invitation is approved at DecemberRepresentatives Meeting has advisedSessions Committee-responsible forRepresentative and Yearly meeting ses-

sions-that the Meeting plans to use theauditorium and also the food services ofNazareth College.

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A steering committee for the subcre'mittee-Duty Hall, Christopher Hodgtie-Philip Gilbert, Eliznbeth Moger mrd

Charles Varian-is meeting at least occs amonth for implementing plans to facilirs*the programs of eleven committees c.yr-cerned with witness to the beliefs dFriends. Other members of the SbarwFund subcommittee include represes&-tives from the committees participaru4:bringing skills and energy and concem i,:E-

common goals.Friends of the Sharing Fund are ernp'&*-

sizing the need to have 60 percent of ikgoal in pledges or pash by the first of tfiso that the witness committees can #etheir programs. In some cases, the cl:l*mittees need to meet payrolls, and kne-ing what may be expected is cruciai a;.

advancing their projects.Payments to the Sharing Fund may be

made over a period of ten months; fwmany Friends a planned gift over manlmonths rnay prol,e either an intrcducilcato Sharing Fund giving or a means dincreasing the gifts which they are acclr*+tomed to making.

Sharing Fund GoalsBlack Development FundChina ConcernsFund for SufferingsHealth Educationlndian AfiairsPeace and Social Action

ProgramPowell HousePrisonsRace RelationsRight Sharing of the World's

ResourcesWider MinistriesSharingFurdOverhead,...... 9,5&Reserves for Emergencies . . . . . 1,0Oc

121,300

Wider Ministries

in the September printing of ShanqFund goals the line for Wider Ministricswas inadvertently dropped. The figureshould have read: Received 1975: $3.9-t$-Received 1976: V,244; Goal, 19?]:$6,500; Proposed 1978: $4,500.

Confi dentiality Statement

ln order to help Meeting represenr&tives and others who work for the SharurgFund, a policy statement on confiden-tiality, has been drawn up. ElizaberllMoger, clerk of the Sharing Fund Sub-committee summarizes the statement *below:

At its meeting on Ninth Month 24, lgTi,the Financial Services Committeeapproved recommendations from its Shar-ing Fund Subcommittee with resp€ct tothe confidentiality of Sharing Fund contri-

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