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Youth Empowerment / HIPP

Shelter from the Storm a HIPP Training exercise

The Youth
Empowerment Project provides young people with realistic alternatives to violence through the Help Increase the Peace Project, workshops on other issues of violence, and provides individual advocacy and referrals to young people when needed.

The Help Increase the Peace Program (HIPP) began in Syracuse, NY in 1991 through the American Friends Service Committee’s Youth Empowerment Project, working with high school and junior high school students in the Syracuse City School District. It has three goals; to provide conflict resolution and nonviolent skills, prejudice reduction and awareness, and opportunities for social change. Since that time, HIP has expanded to 19 states around the country, working with youth and the adults in their lives to reduce violence and intolerance in schools and communities.

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