Men As Peacemakers

Domestic violence restorative circles: map's restorative programming includes both the domestic violence restorative circles (dvrc), for high level domestic violence offenses, and the best restorative alternative response for students engaged in the campus sexual misconduct process. These programs integrate proven public health prevention strategies and best practices within the fields of transformative and restorative justice to prevent harms from happening again, working not just with individuals who cause harm, but also with their respective communities in order to reduce the risk of recidivism and facilitate healthy reintegration into community. In 2024 map's restorative programming served a total of 62 participants, victims, and family members.

Making equal genders awesome program (youth programming): map's youth program, mega (making equal genders awesome), engages students in grades 3 -12 in the primary prevention of sexual violence and other forms of gender-based violence. Incorporating primary prevention strategies like environment-shaping and community-connectedness, as well as embedding restorative conflict resolution techniques, map's youth programming equips students with tools and knowledge, helping them to identify ways they can use their own gifts and strengths to influence community-level conditions and create communities free from gender-based violence where everyone can thrive. In 2024, map served 388 students across five area schools.

Training and technical assistance: map builds off its own long-standing community-based prevention and restorative programming, developing tools and resources that increase the capacity of stakeholders across mn and nationally to address gender-based violence. As a statewide and national technical assistance provider, map provides training, consultations, tool and resource development, and other forms of technical support to diverse communities and organizations doing effective prevention and restorative work. In 2024, map served 160 multidisciplinary tribal professionals, 50 local business leaders, 8 campus staff and administrators, and 11 grantees across the us through the office of violence against women.