“The program was very effective because it was clear cut. Student-athletes need to be hit with more real life situations, and that’s exactly what the program did. They told us what battery is, sexual assault, sexual harassment. They didn’t just read the definition, they gave us scenarios…One thing the program was good at was giving us a plan.”

Jemalle Cornelius,
 Former Football Player, University of Florida

The MVP Playbook
MVP provides interactive trainings to high school, college and community-based leadership groups, sports teams, teachers, coaches, administrators, as well as campus-based professionals. In the sessions, MVP trainers facilitate a series of real life scenarios from the MVP Playbook. Participants discuss concrete options for intervention in situations ranging from sexist comments overheard in the locker room to an attempted rape involving alcohol. Typically, the racially-diverse MVP staff provides both mixed-gender and single gender sessions. Both interactive sessions consist of awareness-raising activities and scenarios that utilize the program’s key teaching tool, the MVP Playbook.

Illegal Motion is a sample scenario from the Male College Student-Athlete Playbook and deals with the issues surrounding alcohol and sexual consent. Slapshot is a sample scenario from the Female College Student-Athlete Playbook and has proven to be an effective scenario for stimulating an interactive dialogue on the dynamics of battering.

MVP Supplemental Exercises & Curriculum Guide
In addition to the MVP Playbook, the MVP Program utilizes a number of awareness raising exercises to stimulate an interactive dialogue. Many of these exercises use examples from popular culture, such as movies, music videos, and television to illustrate the socio-cultural influences on the societal epidemic of men’s violence against women.