Suicide awareness & anti-violence education

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Each year, emerging youth leaders in our program serve as youth peer mentors for our ​​ S.A.V.E. Program (Suicide Awareness and Anti-Violence Education).  The S.A.V.E. Program is offered in partnership with the Kansas City, Missouri Health Department and  is a youth-led, peer-to-peer violence prevention mentorship program where teens discuss the devastating impact of violence in our communities using evidence-based curriculum and materials.  YA collaborates with child health experts, community members, civic leaders, and anti-violence content experts, to help teens identify the potential for violence in social settings, learn how to report violence once it occurs, while learning how to de-escalate conflict in a safe and effective manner.