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Stop America's Violence Everywhere
The Hap Awards
were initiated in 1989 by the AMA Alliance to
recognize excellence in the health promotion programs and projects of
county alliances throughout the nation. Each year five awards are
given: Best Fundraiser Project, Best Community Health Education
Project, Best SAVE (Stop America's Violence Everywhere) Project, Best
Community Service Project and Best Resident Physician Spouses-Medical
Student Spouses Project.
For the
year 2000, The Lee County Medical Society Alliance Foundation
won the HAP Award for its SAVE Project. This was the first HAP
Award ever received by a county in the state of Florida. And for the year
2002, we were honored to receive this award for a second time!
Our S.A.V.E. Project has been an annual workshop called "Bullies and
Victims: A Proactive Approach to Stopping School Violence". This
rigorous 3-day training workshop is open to guidance counselors of Lee
County public and private lower schools, organized and hosted by Alliance
volunteers, and conducted by SuEllen Fried (below). Mrs. Fried teaches
participants a proven methodology on how to understand and handle various
situations in the bully-victim (target)-witness relationship. To date, 65
Lee County Guidance Counselors, Educators and Alliance Members have
completed the course (earning 12 CEU's) in order to become Certified
Facilitators. Armed with new knowledge and the helpful teaching tools
distributed during the course, Facilitators can continue the workshop at
their schools in perpetuity! Most vital during the course is a
"practice session", where Facilitators witness first-hand just
how eager our youth are - to talk openly about bullying! The post-workshop
evaluations completed by the counselors, school support staff and the
students themselves have proven that this program truly is making a
difference in helping to reduce the incidence of violence in our schools
and our community.
The Workshop is FREE,
thanks to generous underwriting by:
Southwest Florida Regional Medical Center
Lee County School District
Lee County Medical Society Alliance Foundation, Inc.
Click on the book cover to link to SuEllen Fried's
website.
SuEllen
Fried, A.D.T.R. is a nationally renowned expert on child abuse and youth
violence and co-authored (with her daughter Dr. Paula Fried) the
award-winning book Bullies and Victims: Helping Your Child Through the
Schoolyard Battlefield. In this book, the authors discuss their
innovative strategy that takes a remarkable new approach to the age old
problem of bullying.
Please contact volunteer Nancy
Barrow for more information.
2003 SAVE Graduating Class
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