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SAVE IN THE CLASSROOM
AND AS A CHAPTER
Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) can be modified
to suit the needs of all school and community groups. The SAVE Essentials Manual
offers step-by-step procedures for implementation of SAVE as a
chapter or into a total school or classroom setting. SAVE is
currently being implemented in elementary, middle and high schools, in community groups such as Boys and Girls
Clubs, Scouts, at community centers, and in faith based organizations.
Schools often ponder the question as to whether to operate SAVE as a chapter or
in the classroom as part of the regular school day.
Guidelines:
As a Club. Chapters can meet monthly, bi-weekly, or weekly. They often meet before school, during lunch, or after school.
Chapter meetings educate students about violence, its causes, and its consequences. Students learn about alternatives to
violence and practice what they learn through school and community service projects. As they participate in service activities,
students learn conflict management skills and mediation skills, and the virtues of good citizenship, civility and nonviolence.
Chapters can utilize the lessons in the SAVE Essentials Manual for focus activities of their
meetings. By bringing in outside resource people as guest speakers, they gain valuable knowledge of their community and prevention efforts. Many SAVE chapters visit other schools to deliver a message of nonviolence.
In the Classroom. SAVE activities in the classroom are usually a part of the
regular curriculum of the school day. These activities integrate knowledge and skills from language arts, social studies,
science, mathematics, arts, and guidance. If the school has a character education trait of the month program,
the SAVE lessons can help to enhance this program.
Students have the oppotunity in this setting to become sklilled in peer mediation and conflict resolution.
SAVE teaches young people how to resolve conflict among themselves.
Through role playing, students see appropriate and inappropriate solutions to conflict. Another
project involves crime prevention awareness by teaching students what they can do to ptotect themselves.
National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere
SAVE: Youth Voices... Grown-Up Choices! Toll Free 866-343-SAVE
For more information contact cwray@nationalsave.org / Copyright 2012
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