The Workforce Development Program
When fully designed and implemented, the Workforce Development Program will offer high school students business mentorships and assistance with college admissions, vocational training, and job placement. Workplace Development overlaps with the Fatherhood Program as well, helping young dads with financial and vocational preparedness.

Phase One will begin in 2010 as we pilot The Nonviolent Workplace Program
at the Kit Carson Electric Cooperative.
 
The goals for The Nonviolent Workplace are to:

• Create a nonviolent and more productive workplace by training employees in the basics
  of stress management, nonviolent communication, and conflict resolution.
  
• Reduce the amount of job stress which might otherwise contribute to substance abuse
  or domestic violence after hours.
  
• Create a corporate culture distinguished by responsibility, collaboration, and volunteerism.
  
• Increase the pool of mentorship candidates.

MEN will assist participating businesses in amending job descriptions to require nonviolent behavior as a condition for employment. MEN staff and volunteers will then conduct periodic trainings for the entire staff.
 
For their part, our “Business Partners” will encourage employees to volunteer as mentors on company time. Employees, at their discretion, may also appear in the Media Campaign newspaper ads – and posters of those ads will be displayed at the place of business to honor their contribution

In addition, we will work with our Business Partners to provide summer jobs and entry-level employment for our teen mentees. The mentee signs a performance agreement with his MEN supervisor or mentor, who tracks him through the summer, supporting him as necessary. This component was successfully tested at the Kit Carson Electric Coop during this summer of 2009 and is the first step towards involving the business community in helping high schoolers prepare for the workplace.

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Contact:
Crispin Clarke, Executive Director, c.clarke@nonviolentmen.org cell 575.770.7810
Fritz Hahn, Director of Programs, f.hahn@nonviolentmen.org cell 575.779.7771