Mid-Hudson Area Council/AVP members plan a series of Alternatives to Violence Project Workshops in spring 2017 in collaboration with community groups including churches, social action organizations, schools and social clubs. Our aim is to help Hudson neighborhoods and people to communicate peacefully across old boundaries and to create a more safe, just, happy and healthy Hudson. Pictured are Jim Peppler, Facilitator & Photographer, Bill Leicht, Recording Secretary, Laurie Scott, Clerk, and Carolyn Polikarpus, Treasurer. We will focus on Mini-AVP Workshops for community youth and activists. Later workshops will lead to Facilitator Certification. AVP began in the Hudson Valley in 1975 and has spread to communities across the globe through volunteers and local initiative, not foundations nor governments.