Center for Violence Prevention Stories & News

Dan Marburger MVP Advocacy Award winners

Patricia A. Tomson Center for Violence Prevention announces 2025-26 Dan Marburger Mentors in Violence Prevention Advocacy Awards

Jolene Hays and Samantha Henriksen, MVP advisers at Fort Dodge Senior High School, and Jocelyn Frohwein, MVP coordinator at Marshalltown Community College, are the 2025-26 recipients of the Dan Marburger Mentors in Violence Prevention Advocacy Awards.
Dan Marburger MVP Advocacy Awards

Patricia A. Tomson Center for Violence Prevention announces inaugural Dan Marburger Mentors in Violence Prevention Advocacy Awards

UNI's Patricia A. Tomson Center for Violence Prevention is honoring the legacy of Dan Marburger with a series of awards.
This is Where I Learned Not to Sleep

Patricia A. Tomson Center for Violence Prevention offers free film screening of “This Is Where I Learned Not to Sleep”

UNI’s Patricia A. Tomson Center for Violence Prevention is hosting a free screening of the documentary film “This is Where I Learned Not to Sleep."
Alysa Mozak

Alysa Mozak to serve as UNI’s new director of the Patricia A. Tomson Center for Violence Prevention

The University of Northern Iowa has selected Alysa Mozak to serve as the new director of the Patricia A. Tomson Center for Violence Prevention (PATCVP), effective Aug. 2022.
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UNI Center for Violence Prevention to be renamed in recognition of Northeast Iowa couple’s gift

In conjunction with its 10-year anniversary, the University of Northern Iowa Center for Violence Prevention will be renamed the Patricia A. Tomson Center for Violence Prevention in honor of her decades of work on behalf of survivors of abuse. 

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UNI Center for Violence Prevention and Iowa High School Athletic Association release racial equality and gender violence prevention programming

UNI NEWS SERVICES– The University of Northern Iowa Center for Violence Prevention (CVP) and the Iowa High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) have partnered together to provide and support racial justice and gender-based violence prevention programming to Iowa school districts and athletic departments.