Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence

The Institute is an innovative and nationally lauded organization that targets the reduction of gang or group related violence in Rhode Island.  Working with law enforcement and hospitals, we have brought the homicide rate down consistently over the past ten years.  The Institute utilizes Nonviolence Trainings in prison and  schools, Street Outreach, hospital response to violent crime, employment services and enrichment activities.  The Institute is the only organization in the country to serve both victims and perpetrators of violent crime through our Victim Services Department – we respond to all homicide victims families and living victims of violent crime.  Additionally we work with juveniles and adults as they prepare to be released from the Training School or Prison.  We work to build the ideal of Martin Luther King’s Beloved Community.