Garner High Student Named to National SAVE Advisory Board
October 1, 2009 - Garner Magnet High School junior Casey Story has been selected as one of ten high school students from across the country to serve on the 2009-10 National SAVE Youth Advisory Board (YAB).
Story has been involved with SAVE for six years and this is her third year on the YAB.
Story has been president of her chapter for two years and was awarded the National SAVE Middle School Student of the Year for 2006-07, as well as the Presidential Volunteer Service Award. Story has been active with chorus, choral council, Invisible Children, Beta Club, Spanish Club, different drama productions, Girl Scouts and her church youth group.
Members of the YAB will meet throughout the year to discuss school violence issues, develop action plans for SAVE chapters across the nation and set the overall direction of the 13th Annual SAVE Summit at which SAVE will celebrate its 20th Anniversary.
The YAB will be developing their leadership skills through participation in training sessions, discussions of best practices to prevent school violence and the practice of educational activities for sharing with other SAVE students. They will create goals for the year, as well as a proactive action plan to combat violence through the implementation of the three essential elements of SAVE: crime prevention, conflict management and service projects.
SAVE is a student-run, student-initiated public nonprofit violence prevention organization with more than 1,800 chapters in 47 states and more than 200,000 members in elementary, middle, high schools, colleges and communities nationwide. The organization works in partnership with the Allstate Foundation to support the violence prevention efforts of students through their SAVE chapters. The Allstate Foundation is an independent, charitable organization made possible by the Allstate Corporation.
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