Peace Anywhere Project engages students in secure facilities in a values-based intervention aimed at sustainable change from the inside out.

This initiative focuses on developing the motivation, knowledge, and skills needed to regulate behavior and promote peace, with an emphasis is on overcoming social and motivational barriers to behavior change. The intervention integrates four empirically-supported components:  1) framing in acceptance, autonomy, and empowerment, 2) values clarification and affirmation, 3) prosocial identity development, and 4) practice of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills. This approach aims to reduce violent behavior in the short term, and create a sustainable, long-term impact on behavior, ultimately increasing desistance and reducing recidivism. The initial pilot of this program is being implemented and evaluated now through the use of pre- and post- data.