The Lee County Medical Society
Alliance Foundation
The HAP (Health Awareness Promotion)
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!
During 2001, 2002 and now 2003 (click!), 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 and
Lee County Medical Society Alliance Foundation, Inc.
Click on book to link to:
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.
Workshop logos created by Alliance Members
for the older students: for the younger students:
Calendar (under construction during the summer)