EVE is an education and awareness project that examines the environmental risk factors that contribute to violence, crime, and conflict.  By examining some of the environmental root causes of violence, we hope that the project will ultimately reduce violence and conflict in our communities.

The project has three major outcomes:

• Integrate research-based science regarding environmental risk factors for violence into all CVVC services and related materials currently offered to crime victims and witnesses.
• Incorporate research-based environmental science into CVVC’s community education, violence prevention, and outreach programs and our weekly radio programs.
• Develop a teaching model on the environment as a root cause of violence, crime, and conflict for at-risk groups, including a formal curriculum and solutions and strategies to address environmental risk factors.

In order for CVVC to achieve maximum impact, we have adopted two focus areas:

• The impact of diet, household and personal care products on health, wellness, trauma recovery and violence prevention.
• The impact of diet, household and personal care products on precocious puberty and the connection to sexual violence.  (Supported by research from Sandra Steingraber entitled, The Falling Age of Puberty.)

To increase knowledge and skills that lead to healthy choices and to reduce related risk factors, CVVC will teach clients and community members to be able to:

• Read and understand product and food labels
• Identify substances that are toxic and detrimental to health in food, personal care and household products
• Identify sources of healthy, locally and organically grown food and healthy alternatives to toxic personal and household products.

Please contact LaVerne Baker Hotep for more information about the EVE Project: lbhotep@cvvc.org