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S.A.V.E. IN THE CLASSROOM
AND AS A CHAPTER
Students Against Violence Everywhere (S.A.V.E.) can be modified to suit the needs of all school and community groups. The S.A.V.E. Essentials Manual offers step-by-step procedures for implementation of S.A.V.E. as a chapter or into a total school or classroom setting. S.A.V.E. 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 S.A.V.E. as a chapter or in the classroom as part of the regular school day.
Guidelines:
As a chapter. 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 S.A.V.E. 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 S.A.V.E. chapters visit other schools to deliver a message of nonviolence.
In the classroom. S.A.V.E. activities in the classroom, usually are 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 S.A.V.E. lessons can help to enhance this program.
S.A.V.E. promotes nonviolence within the school and community. It provides education about the effects and consequences of violence and helps provide safe extracurricular activities for students, parents, and the community. Open to all students who want to support an attitude of nonviolence, the organization is designed to have regular meetings or classroom sessions for members to learn about alternatives to violence and to promote its message to other schools and throughout the community. Members can become skilled in peer mediation and conflict resolution. S.A.V.E. teaches young people how to resolve conflict among themselves. Through role playing, students see right and wrong solutions to conflict. Another project involves crime prevention and awareness by teaching students what they can do to protect 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 2007
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