The National Alliance for Non-violent Programming:
A Unique Opportunity for Community Education and Advocacy

The National Alliance for Nonviolent Programming (NANP) is a national not-for-profit network which helps build and support grassroots initiatives to promote and teach media literacy and non-violence in communities nationwide.

Dr. Whitney Grove Vanderwerff, Ph.D., Executive Director
122 N. Elm St. Suite 300
Greensboro, NC 27410
Tel. 336-370-0407 Fax 336-370-0392
E-mail NA4NVP@aol.com

About Whitney Vanderwerff:
Dr. Whitney Grove Vanderwerff, an internationally recognized educator, is NANP's Executive Director. Considering violence the endpoint of disrespect, Dr. Vanderwerff's work addresses not only media portrayals of gratuitous violence and aggression but also stereotyping, prejudice, racism, gender relationships, new research on brain development, and media ownership and production.

Dr. Vanderwerff is a three-year Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Hollins College, Virginia, also holding M.A.T. and Ph.D. degrees in English literature from Converse College and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has addressed the U. S. Department of Justice, was invited to represent NANP at the White House Summit on Children's Television, and has testified at a U.S. Senate hearing on "Government and Television: Improving Television without Censorship." She has addressed numerous national and regional conferences as well as an audience at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. She shared the podium in Boston with a Nobel Laureate at the annual conference of the American Public Health Association focusing on minority health issues, addressed the violence prevention collaborative in San Jose, CA, served on a media expert panel at the Newseum in Arlington, Va. and was recently featured at the national Parents as Teachers conference in St. Louis and the National Crime Prevention conference in Washington, DC.

Dr. Vanderwerff is recognized for her lively presentations, her positive, collaborative approach and her emphasis on practical, non-censorial solutions addressing media's impact on children, youth and communities. She consistently presents viable options for informed advocacy, community activity and education.

Curriculum and Training:
NANP's flexible curriculum, training, workshops and presentations utilize selections from twenty new media literacy resources. All programs are participatory and video-based. Media products featured include video and computer games, films, music videos, television programs including news broadcasts, and lyrics. Suitable for use in school curricula, after-school programs, health, violence prevention and parenting series, the versatile curriculum can be adapted for one presentation or workshop or a violence prevention and media literacy series implemented over several weeks or one or two semesters.

• Violence prevention initiatives
• Local medical and public health communities
• Schools and after-schools, colleges and universities
• Youth organizations
• Faith community
• City and county officials
• Parents and seniors organizations
• Local media
• Public libraries
• Counselors

• Dr. Vanderwerff's presentations and workshops to highlight the issues and present positive strategies for education and advocacy
• Media literacy materials incorporated into existing school, parent, health, faith community, youth and youth violence prevention programs
• "Near peer" training as teens teach middle schoolers to understand and act on the serious consequences of passively absorbing all forms of electronic media
• Community resource center established in partnership with the public library, local university or community college
• Speakers bureau for parents, schools and community organizations
• Media task force

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