Center for Safety & Change Offers Local Students the Opportunity for Leadership Training, Community Service Hours

Rockland County high school students are once again being offered a unique opportunity to complete community service credits, train as activists for social change and earn money in the Center for Safety & Change’s Student Activists Ending Dating Abuse (SAEDA) summer 2015 training.

The training is scheduled to take place August 24th through the 27th from 9am to 4pm at the Palisades Center Mall.

All Rockland students entering grades 9 through 12 are welcome to apply, young men are especially encouraged.

All participants who complete the training are eligible for a $50 stipend and 28 hours of community service credit.

The SAEDA program provides students with the opportunity to discuss and explore issues of dating abuse and what a healthy relationship looks like.

Students who successfully complete the entire training become members of SAEDA and can remain active as co-presenters and help their peers by being resources of assistance, information and referrals. SAEDA students also strategize as a group on how they can contribute to positive social change in their communities.

Students who would like to apply to the program or receive more information should contact Laura Plotkin at (845) 634-3391 ext. 3042 or lplotkin@centersc.org.

Center for Safety & Change is a non-profit organization founded in 1979, that provides free, confidential, culturally sensitive programs including an emergency shelter for battered women and their children, rape crisis services, a 24-hour hotline, court services, support groups and community education.

Center for Safety & Change is located at 9 Johnsons Lane, New City, NY. The Center’s 24-hour hotline number is 845-634-3344.