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With a bold mission to end interpersonal violence in two generations, CVIC delivers vital safety and healing services throughout greater Grand Forks to adults and children experiencing domestic or sexual violence. We educate youth and professionals about how to stop violence and teach our communities ways to develop healthy relationships.

SAFETY

When you experience interpersonal violence due to domestic or sexual violence, stalking or other interpersonal crime, finding a safe place to go and feeling safe again is a first step. 

HEALING

We are learning more each day about the impact of trauma on human lives. And with the right approach, we can offer hope and healing for those harmed by violence. 

EDUCATION

We teach our communities, from youth to adults, skills needed to build relationships and become bystanders who promote a violence-free community and change norms.


Commemorative book released

Two-Generation Guardians: Peacemakers Changing the Face of Violence – for Good commemorates CVIC’s 40th anniversary. This honorary book features a cross section of hundreds of “guardians” who have been instrumental in shaping our long-range violence prevention and intervention efforts, as well as safeguarding the community we all cherish.

“As much as this is a CVIC story, it’s truly a story about the guardians and peacemakers of Grand Forks County and surrounding communities … Enjoy learning about the hopes, the struggles, the gifts, the tools, and first-rate humans who continue to find new and inventive ways to build a safer tomorrow.”

Coiya Tompkins, Author & CVIC President/CEO

Order your copy today!

$20/book

Because the cost has been generously underwritten by the City of Grand Forks, Chulinda Investments, Alerus, and Bremer Bank, all proceeds will support CVIC programs and services and transform lives impacted by violence.


Ending Interpersonal Violence in Two Generations

CVIC and its partners began the Safer Tomorrows Road Map in 2016 to end violence in two generations. Never before has one project addressed domestic, dating and sexual violence, and bullying in this way, by simultaneously promoting cultural change through education while providing safety and preventing the effects of trauma from being passed among generations.

This innovation equips community members with skills to develop positive relationships and prevent the use of violence at every stage of life.

*CVIC partially funded by a grant from the Mary Kay Ash Foundation, MaryKayAshFoundation.org

2023 Jim Vigness Peacemaker Award recipient

Spring Newsletter 2023

“CVIC came into my life at a time when I desperately needed help but didn’t have the belief in myself to take it.” -Katrina

CVIC Honors UND Counselor with Changemaker Award

GRAND FORKS – CVIC at UND, a collaboration between Community Violence Intervention Center (CVIC) and the University of North Dakota, named Brenda Satrom the 2022 recipient of the UND Changemaker Award.