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ProgramsThis year SV FACES worked with more than:
- and impacted the lives of thousands of your neighbors!
Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
SV FACES provides emergency aid, counseling, and compensation to victims of crime and to court witnesses, thus contributing to improvement of police-community relations and more positive relations between residents and our justice system. The Victim Witness Assistance Center serves a clientele that is disproportionately low income, minority, and non-English-speaking. It assists people at a time when they are most vulnerable and lacking the resources to cope with major crises in the aftermath of a crime. The Victim Witness Assistance Center, SV FACES Region, is an innovative public-private collaboration supported by state-county-city funds, recognized in its field for delivering remarkably high levels of service to clients, at a cost-ratio far superior to its government-administered counterparts. - Learn more at www.victim.org
Common Ground Enrichment Institute is a weeklong summer program for entering high school freshmen, which directly impacts the most significant factor in determining success or failure in high school, especially for "at-risk" groups: the connection to the challenging social environment that a modern diverse community represents. By connecting freshmen with a group of junior and senior mentors, who are trained in leadership, Common Ground Enrichment Institute develops an early effective shared space - the "common ground" - for the incoming class to feel safe, wanted, excited and motivated to join in the full range of their educational opportunities. Common Ground Enrichment Institute Program teaches the "4th, 5th, and 6th Rs: Respect, Resilience, and Responsibility," without which no one goes very far in American society. It operates on a social justice and unity model of building a vibrant and inclusive campus culture.
Camp Everytown is an intensive 4-day/3-night residential retreat for high school youth that reduces stereotypes, bias, and prejudice, and which increases understanding and respect for differences in race, ethnicity, religion, culture, and other factors that act to divide us. Everytown is based on respect, acceptance, and responsibility, core values that promote non-violence in our local communities. Participating school and law enforcement personnel attest to the power of this program to help reduce tensions on high school campuses and help prevent violence in our schools. While the program has a profound effect on the lives of the individual students, its real goal is to train, equip, and support them as leaders for a multi-cultural community. As a very significant side benefit, the program also functions to reduce and prevent other high-risk adolescent behaviors. Independent research demonstrates that SV FACES' Camp Everytown program is a highly valuable life-changing program that increases numerous resiliency assets. The California Wellness Foundation highlighted Camp Everytown as one of 16 premier benchmark youth violence prevention programs in the State of California.
SV FACES Leadership Today is a 4 day residential, intensive, leadership training program, based on core values that promote non-violent campus communities. Its goal is to train and support individuals as leaders for a multi-cultural community. Leadership Today extends the diversity leadership training of Camp Everytown to college students and adults.
Building Connections Program SV FACES' Building Connections program modules are targeted to elementary school students. SV FACES' age-appropriate curriculum helps children to develop a positive sense of self-worth and to value differences among people so as to diminish damaging, prejudiced behavior. Building Connections, the primary program module, is delivered to an entire school at one time. This ensures that SV FACES achieves a significant and almost immediate impact on the climate of the school.
Flash Judgments & Experiencing Diversity SV FACES' Experiencing Diversity & Interrupting Prejudice workshop is a 1 to 2 day-long, highly interactive workshop in which participants learn to create a more respectful workplace. Utilizing interactive team-building exercises, participants examine their long-held (often unconscious) beliefs, learning to recognize the destructive nature of labels and stereotypes, and skills to defeat them. Experiencing Diversity & Interrupting Prejudice. Attitudes Towards Differences is a team-building, video-based program targeted to the workplace, to community groups, and to the faculty/staff of schools. Flash Judgment is a video-based program designed to generate discussion, targeted to middle school and high school students. It graphically illustrates that stereotypes (a fixed notion of a person or group, allowing for no individuality) are most often inaccurate judgments and result in misunderstanding and hostility.
SV FACES' Inter-Religious Dialogues fosters education, communication and friendship among influential religious leaders in the community whose work and words profoundly affect thousands of people in our region. In addition to clergy, lay religious leaders are reached through living room dialogues, adult education and an Inter-Religious Speakers' Bureau. Religious leaders are prepared to become a united force for prevention and for action in hate-related incidents.
Extremes
of Hate: The Holocaust Studies & Critical Thinking program is dedicated to teaching each new generation about the devastating consequences of power and prejudice combined, and what happens when citizens remain indifferent to injustice, and the devastating impact of institutional hatred and racism. The Holocaust is taught as a paradigm of evil, with its causes and consequences closely examined. Other modern genocides, committed from within and without a cultural group, are discussed to broaden the relevance to today's multi-cultural school audiences. Drawing from history and from dramatic first-person accounts of Holocaust survivors and rescuers, students are prompted to learn critical thinking skills. They analyze hate-group propaganda and the historical steps and danger signals that precede and lead to the horrors of a holocaust. They become acquainted with hate groups operating in America today, and how to resist their recruitment.
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Our Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Student Program is part of SV FACES' many
youth leadership development programs. What the students see at first
as a contest, is actually an empowerment program. The program honors
and encourages leadership for a multi-cultural society, through the example
of major diversity role models, such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The
students creatively interpret these teachings through art, writing, and
multimedia. SV FACES believes it is important that those lessons and beliefs
affect students today and to grow them to be leaders for diversity for
tomorrow. The contest serves as the point of entry for the students,
then the winners from every school are celebrated by community and business
leaders at an event in their honor (to show them it's serious), and their
artwork tours the community for the rest of the year.
