Educate, Empower, Encourage, and Engage, Youth in Violence Prevention through SAVE Promise Clubs

Format

Workshop

First Presenter's Institution

Sandy Hook Promise

First Presenter’s Email Address

Sandy Hook Promise

First Presenter's Brief Biography

Erika Latines is a SAVE Promise Club Manager. She has been an activist and humanitarian throughout her career. Equity, education, and the prevention of youth violence drive her personal and professional goals. She has been working with Sandy Hook Promise since October 2017.

Second Presenter's Institution

Sandy Hook Promise

Second Presenter’s Email Address

annie.stephenssandyhookpromise.org

Second Presenter's Brief Biography

Annie Stephens is a SAVE Promise Club Manager. Annie came to Sandy Hook Promise in 2015 to put her corporate sales background and lifelong passion for youth-led prevention to good use, elevating students as community builders and changemakers. Since coming to SHP, she has worked tirelessly in partnership with communities throughout the Midwest and Northeast to bring Sandy Hook Promise’s lifesaving Know the Signs programs to schools, leveraging those relationships to create space and opportunities for SAVE Promise Clubs, and amplifying the youth voice.

Third Presenter's Institution

Sandy Hook Promise

Third Presenter’s Email Address

jim.wise@sandyhookpromise.org

Third Presenter's Brief Biography

Jim Wise LCSW is a SAVE Promise Club Manager and a retired School Social Worker with over 30 years working with Middle and High Schools in North Carolina. He has also been actively involved with SAVE Promise Clubs as an advisor and Board Member for over 25 years.

Fourth Presenter's Institution

Sandy Hook Promise

Fourth Presenter’s Email Address

carleen.wray@sandyhookpromise.org

Fourth Presenter's Brief Biography

Carleen Wray is the Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) Promise Club Director and has over 30 years working in Violence Prevention programming. She has worked for the North Carolina Center for Violence Prevention, NC Department of Juvenile Justice, National SAVE, and Sandy Hook Promise Foundation. She has worked with SAVE Promise Clubs for over 30 years and served as the Director since 2001.

Location

Session One Breakouts

Strand #1

Hands: Safety & Violence Prevention

Strand #2

Heart: Social & Emotional Skills

Relevance

This proposal is relevant to both Heart and Hands. Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) Promise Clubs are youth led clubs that use the 4Es: Educate, Empower, Encourage, and Engage to build social and emotional skills in youth so they can build community, reduce bullying and social isolation as well as create safer and healthier schools and communities with the support of adult advisors.

Brief Program Description

Explore how youth can take a proactive approach to violence prevention and assist you in your school and youth safety efforts through SAVE (Students Against Violence Everywhere) Promise Clubs. Using Sandy Hook Promise Know the Signs programs, youth create more inclusive environments, promote how to say something when they see someone at risk of harming themselves and others, and utilize social emotional learning skills as peer leaders.

Summary

Sandy Hook Promise Foundation was founded following the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 by several family members who lost loved ones in the attack. The Sandy Hook Promise Foundation has a goal of preventing school shootings and creating safer and healthier schools and communities. Through nonpartisan policy and partnerships, SHP advances gun safety, youth mental health, and violence prevention education at the state and federal levels that protect all children from gun violence in their schools, homes, and communities. SAVE (Students Against Violence Everywhere) was founded following the death of a student by gun violence in Charlotte, NC in 1989. In 2017 Sandy Hook Promise merged with SAVE and since then SAVE Promise Clubs have been a major vehicle to sustain violence prevention messages in schools across the country with over 3400 clubs in 49 states. By giving youth a foundation built on the 4 E’s: Educate, Empower, Encourage and Engage, we have seen a movement grow in which youth are the leaders and upstanders in the prevention of violence in their schools and communities by having adult advisors that create the platform and space for their voice to be heard. All club materials, resources, information, and support are free and readily available. We believe that money should never be a barrier to safer communities for our youth.

Evidence

The National SAVE organization has been in existence for over 30 years and has been formally evaluated. After a merger in 2017 with Sandy Hook Promise, SAVE Promise Clubs have expanded their national reach to 48 states and continue to develop student leadership skills to grow the SWH and SS messages in schools. The SAVE program was evaluated in 2003 using qualitative and quantitative measures.

Learning Objective 1

Participants will be able to learn how they can help prevent youth violence through SAVE Promise Clubs using the foundation of the 4 Es: Educate: Students learn from each other how to create an inclusive school culture of looking out for one another through activities, events, and projects that promote kindness.

Learning Objective 2

Empower: Students use social emotional strategies; youth are empowered with knowledge and skills necessary to provide service to their community and school. Engage: Students use the free materials from Sandy Hook Promise to engage their peers in meaningful violence prevention efforts within their school and community

Learning Objective 3

Encourage: Students to be the youth leaders that encourage positive peer influences within the school and community through shared violence prevention efforts.

Keyword Descriptors

Prevention, SEL, anti-bullying, youth empowerment, violence, community, school safety

Presentation Year

2022

Start Date

3-7-2022 10:15 AM

End Date

3-7-2022 11:30 AM

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Educate, Empower, Encourage, and Engage, Youth in Violence Prevention through SAVE Promise Clubs

Session One Breakouts

Explore how youth can take a proactive approach to violence prevention and assist you in your school and youth safety efforts through SAVE (Students Against Violence Everywhere) Promise Clubs. Using Sandy Hook Promise Know the Signs programs, youth create more inclusive environments, promote how to say something when they see someone at risk of harming themselves and others, and utilize social emotional learning skills as peer leaders.