Safer societies, built through skills and systems that work.
Our strategy combines practical psychosocial skills, strong institutional partnerships, and continuous learning to prevent violence at scale.
From a partnership to lasting change.
Our Theory of Change connects what we do with partners to the outcomes we seek for participants, institutions, and communities. Each link is grounded in existing research and tested and refined through our pilots.
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Partnerships and adaptationWe partner with organizations and institutions that already have trusted relationships with the populations they serve. Together, we adapt the curriculum, participant selection, and delivery model to each population and setting.
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Capacity building and deliveryWe train and coach partner facilitators, strengthen systems for participant identification and monitoring, and support implementation quality as partner teams deliver the program.
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Skill developmentParticipants strengthen five practical skills: agency, emotional regulation, metacognition, conflict management, and long-term planning.
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Application and outcomesParticipants apply these skills in moments of stress, conflict, and decision-making, strengthening wellbeing and reducing behaviors linked to violence.
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Sustainability and scalePartners sustain and scale the program through their existing services, reaching more people and contributing to safer communities.
Five practical skills, selected from research and refined through practice.
We started with research on programs shown to reduce violence and strengthen wellbeing, then translated those findings into practical group sessions adapted to Latin American contexts. Each implementation helps us test and improve the curriculum.
Agency
Recognize personal strengths, see change as possible, and take purposeful action.
Emotional Regulation
Recognize and manage intense emotions before responding.
Metacognition
Notice, question, and reframe automatic thoughts.
Conflict Management
Navigate disagreement, communicate needs, and de-escalate conflict.
Long-Term Planning
Turn long-term goals into concrete steps and anticipate the consequences of different choices.
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Explore the evidence behind our approach.
See the research that informed our curriculum, what we learned from two pilot randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in Colombia, and how we estimate cost-effectiveness.
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