STUDENTS AGAINST VIOLENCE EVERYWHERE ~
NATIONAL SAVE DAY ~ October 18, 2006

Question Posed: How is your SAVE Chapter Celebrating National SAVE Day?

Eastern Greene Elementary and Junior High School, Bloomfield, IN
The Eastern Greene Elementary and Junior High School will celebrate National SAVE (Students Against Violence Everywhere) Day with a membership drive and rally. Starting on Oct. 16 the elementary and junior high will participate in a membership drive. Our goal is to be 700 members strong this year. On National SAVE day (Oct. 18), the student advisory board will host a SAVE rally for students in the fourth through eighth grade. The SAVE Rally will be a way to educate the students about SAVE. The rally - which will include bullying and conflict resolution skits, poems, and cheers - will be both fun and educational. It's a fun way for all the students to get involved with the SAVE Chapter. The students will walk away with an understanding of what SAVE stands for, how they can start making a difference in their school, and how to relate that information to their everyday lives. ~ Kim Hill

Moore Intermediate School, Florence, SC
Moore Intermediate School SAVE Members will celebrate the day with an assembly for the school. We will give tips for staying safe and we will have the school say The National Pledge against gun violence with us. Our main topics will be stop bullying, responding to teasing correctly, angry management and talk it out.
~ Gloria Howard

Kealakehe Intermediate School, Kona, HI
Aloha, just a short note on the activities that we are planning at Kealakehe Intermediate School in Kona, Hawaii are each day we are doing a little something. Monday, our students tied ribbons on the lockers here, every four being orange to signify the number of victims, on Tuesday it is the stop harassment/bullying day where students will bring awareness on behaviors, wednesday is the day to make a new friend and invite the friend to a meeting highlighting what was learned about the students, we will also have a speaker that will talk about Emergency Crisis and Active Shooting at School, on Thursday we will have students sign a pledge to ve violence free and in exchange they will receive a gift. A pep rally in the courtyard during lunch on Friday and a poster contest on no violence. Next week we will continue on with the red ribbon week with our SAVE students as well.
~ Mahalo, Marjorie Santos

Montbello High School, Denver, CO
The Montbello SAVE chapter is celebrating SAVE Day by putting orange and purple ribbons on all the lockers at our school. We will be putting up posters of students that have passed away because of violence with statistics on them. The students in the posters are the all of the individual Columbine students and some of our fallen Warriors from Montbello. Also the week of SAVE day we will be reading the stories of how students have passed away because of violence to remind them how we are effected by violence each day. We will also have a peace poster with peace written all over it in many different languages and have a Peace pledge poster outside of the cafeteria so students can sign it. In addition to all of this, our SAVE chapter will do a side walk mural in front of the school about SAVE. We are all working really hard to make all of this happen and we are all very exited for SAVE Day!!!
~ Christian Gonzalez

Butner-Stem Middle School, Butner, NC
Butner-Stem Middle School just started it's SAVE chapter during the month of September. We used National SAVE day as a way to advertise our chapter. SAVE memebers placed orange and purple ribbons on all of the student lockers to represent the satistic that one in four people will be effected by violence this year. We made announcements over the intercom to explain the display and encourage students to join SAVE as a way to help keep their communites safe.
~ Meg Graham

Regina SAVE, Regina, Saskatchewan, CANADA
On October 17th we had a Anti-Violence Ribbon Campaign at Robert Usher Collegiate High School and then on October 18th the Regina City Mayor attended the SAVE Day Rally at Cochrane High School and declared October 18th National SAVE Day in our city. The students also performed skits and a chant for their fellow students. It was very exciting for the students and the schools, as well as for our city. We had excellent media coverage with 2 TV stations covering the events and the local newspaper covered both events.
~ Diane Bodnarchuk

Rutland Middle School, Macon, GA
For National SAVE Day at Rutland Middle School, we will be reading the history of SAVE and the proclamation on the morning announcements which is broadcast via television. Our 8th grade students will then attend a county-wide assembly on Gun Violence Prevention where the students will hear various speakers discuss the effects of violence, after which they will sign a pledge against gun violence. Upon the return of the 8th grade students to the campus, all students will sign the SAVE Violence Prevention Pledge.
~ Lisa Brown

South Point High School, Belmont, NC
Our SAVE Chapter has activities planned for each day of the week:

• Monday - Random Acts of Kindness Day
• Tuesday - Hand out pencils engraved with "Students Against Violence Everywhere" to every student through 1st period classes
• Wednesday - Orange and Purple Day, reading of Proclamation
• Thursday - Hopefully hand out beads to every student
• Friday - Public Service Announcement**

Wayne Elementary, Wayne, PA
We, at Wayne Elementary, are holding a 5th grade mini-training and brainstorming session on Wednesday. The kids are going to come up with ways to spread the message of positive actions and non-violence to the younger grades, i.e. lunch time commercials/skits, posters, etc. A safety newsletter will also be going home to parents.
~ Danielle C. Budenz

Syosset High School, NY
At Syosset High School, we tried to impart SAVE's message on our peers through a hybrid National SAVE Day and Mix It Up day, in what we called 'Peace, Love & Pizza Day'. Through a human scavenger hunt, musical preformances (by students and teachers- even the school principal!), and the signing of a peace banner, we were able to meet our goals of breaking down social boundaries and spreading the message of peace. Through a non-violent breakdance battle, students from all different cliques and groups were able to come together in the spirit of fun and friendship. We also were able to raise money for a domestic abuse charity and for National SAVE through the sales of tee shirts and a 'guess how many candies are in the jar' contest. The day was exciting for all, and Syosset SAVE can't wait to see the effects of Peace, Love & Pizza Day!

Crookston High School, Crookston, MN
With the recent rash of violence in schools across the nation, "Journey Into a Better Tomorrow," a production by the Crookston High School chapter of SAVE, is even more applicable than it was when the chapter premiered it nearly two years ago. So SAVE will once again present the program to the public at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26 in the CHS gymnasium. "This riveting hour-long production uses a combination of PowerPoint slides, songs, poems and skits to educate communities on the physical and emotional effects of violence and to promote peace and nonviolence," SAVE members explained.

Highland School of Technology, Gastonia, NC
We are decorating our lockers with ribbons. Every 4th ribbon has an orange or purple ribbon (it alternates) to show the statistic that 1 in 4 teens are affected by violence. We are having students sign "I believe" statements during lunch this week. On Wednesday, the SAVE, Interact, and SADD officers will choose I believe statements to read during our SAVE Rally. Our Step Team will perform with a message about SAVE. We will end with some general information about SAVE, violence statistics, and safety tips. Finally, we are having a combined assembly for Red Ribbon Week and will show a video about the dangers of drinking and driving.
~ Darius Bush & Ami Parker

Poway High School, San Diego, CA
For National SAVE Day my chapter will be planning a skit to perform at lunch. We will also give the students a crossword that they must fill out and in return get a purple lollipop with a violence statistic on it. We will also put statistics on posters around school, in the bulletin, and on announcements.
~ Heather Hernandez

Thomas Jefferson Middle School, Winston Salem, NC
Our chapter has made posters to put up around the school for National SAVE Awareness. During lunch they will be talking to other students about their involvement in SAVE and what it has meant to them.
~ Mike Thrower

Orange Park High School, Orange Park, FL
In our third month of existence and under the leadership of President Brittany Spahn and Vice President Ashley Liz, the Orange Park chapter of Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) engaged in two school-wide activities during National Safe Schools Week October 16 to 20. On Sunday October 15, the SAVE club placed over 400 purple and orange ribbons along various walkways on campus. The club placed three purple ribbons for every orange ribbon to heighten the awareness among the student body to the statistic that during any single school year one in four high school students will be the likely victim of some sort of crime. On Wednesday October 18, club members placed banners in the cafeteria and encouraged students to sign a "pledge" to work for school anticrime and antiviolence efforts. Over 350 students signed the pledge banners. Club members also recruited students to join a Conflict Management Team and be trained as peer mediators. Thirty-seven students signed up for the Conflict Management Team joining fifteen members who had already enlisted. During the cafeteria campaign thirty-nine students also signed up as new club members.
~ Dr. Charles Walsh

Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, NC
We are placing ribbons on all 1756 lockers in school. Ribbons will be white and orange. Every fourth ribbon will be orange to remind students that 1 in 4 students lives will be impacted by violence this year. We will also be posting signs all over school to explain the ribbons and that will list 4 ways students can help prevent violence or protect themselves from violence.
~ Jim Wise

High Point Regional High School, Sussex, NJ
Daily announcements on violence awareness and resources, literature display in the lunches, display of our Pledge List (over 300 names) for a violence -free school year, posters around the building on effective peer conflict resolution steps.
~ Lisa Frisbie

North Brunswick High School, Wilmington, NC
Here at North Brunswick High School in Wilmington, we are planning to have a town hall type forum at our neighboring middle school, our members will discuss their personal experiances with drugs and alcohol and how it has effected their lives, they will also have an essay contest and discuss the prospect of starting a middle school chapter.
~ Kelly Mansur

Beginning Over Foundation, Easton, PA
We have a busy week planned!

• Monday - Visiting local Career Institute of Technology and presenting two teen dating violence seminars.
• Tuesday - Visiting Northampton Community College and teaching dating violence lessons.
• Wednesday - At Wilson High school for National SAVE Day (1000 students)
• Thursday - At Easton High school for SAVE Week activities (3000) students.
• Friday - At Williams Elementary school distributing SAVE information (k-6th)

Clinton High School, Clinton, NC
The SAVE chapter of Clinton High School has been working on a bulletin board for the month of October. We will do a balloon launch on Wednesday October 18th. This is in memory of all students who have been killed by an act of violence. Also in memory of victims who have been killed by drunk drivers. Our SAVE students will be passing out red ribbons during all lunches for National SAVE day.
~ Adriana Mathis

O'Farrell Community School, San Diego, CA
Our week-long celebration is school-wide. Posters have been hung around the entire campus to promote "America's Safe Schools Week" and "National SAVE Day." This is what the SAVE Chapter/O'Farrell Community School is doing daily:

• M - Each Homeroom received an enlarged "SAVE Nonviolence Pledge"
• T - SAVE Assemblies will be held; San Diego City Schools Police will present "Crimestoppers" video and presentation; SAVE members will talk about SAVE's purpose and upcoming events; a community speaker will also present. "Safe Schools Surveys" will be given in each Homeroom class; the first class to complete the surveys will receive prizes and a Pizza Party
• W - another SAVE Assembly; each student will receive a "Violence Prevention Pledge" to sign and keep
• Th - each Homeroom will receive an enlarged "Conflict Managment" poster and various activities about Conflict Management will be given to Homeroom teachers
• Fri - two students per Homebase will receive a SAVE wristband and other prizes for promoting Nonviolence; each homebase will receive a Certificate for supporting the week

Gina Jackson

West Clayton Elementary School, Clayton, NC
West Clayton Elementary will be awarding prizes to the winners of our essay and poster contests (which are being sponsored by the grant we received from the Allstate Foundation) on Wednesday. Our mayor, Jody McLeod, will be awarding savings bonds and gift certificates to the first, second and third place winners. The ifth grade essay winners will be reading their SAVE essays on our morning announcements on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings this week. Our principal will be reading a SAVE DAY declaration and all our students and staff have been reminded to wear orange.
~ Suzanne S. Phillips

Kernodle Middle School, Greensboro, NC
The Kernodle Middle School SAVE Chapter #1329 is having two events to help celebrate National SAVE Day. First, the Chapter will hold a non-violence pledge banner signing event on October 18, 2006 at the school. Students and staff are invited to sign the banner indicating their pledge against violence. Then, to reach out to and help educate the surrounding community about crime prevention and conflict management the Kernodle Middle School SAVE Chapter will hold a National SAVE Information booth at Spears YMCA in Greensboro, NC from 3pm to 6pm on October 18, 2006.
~ Mike Moser

East Garner Middle School, Garner, NC
East Garner Magnet Middle School's SAVE Club is sponsoring the school-wide Peace Rally to kick off events for National Safe Schools Week. Sixth, seventh and eighth grade students will fill the gym on Monday, October 16 at 1:30 p.m. to participate in the rally featuring routines and skits by the school's Cheerleading Squad, Dance Team, Drama Club and Step Team all promoting nonviolence. The Peace Rally will jump start a week of events designed to encourage nonviolence. Students are encouraged to participate in themed dress-up days like "Turn Your Back on Violence," "Sock it to Violence," and "Team Up Against Violence." The SAVE Club also hopes to inspire every student at EGMMS to sign the Peace Pledge, an anti-bullying proclamation that will be read at Monday's Peace Rally. more
~ Lisa Moody

C.A. Lindsay Middle School, Hampton, VA

Greenfield Academy, Wilson, NC
We are completing this week a fundraiser to purchase bullet proof vests for our police canines in Wilson. We have sold dog and cat treats and will raise $1000 when it is all said and done.
~ Leni Crook

Past National SAVE Day Info