Fort Frye student heading to Denver for work with Sandy Hook Promise
Brody Garvin, a student at Fort Frye High School, was selected to attend the S.A.V.E. Summer Institute in Denver, Colo. (Photo by James Dobbs)
Brody Garvin received a certificate of achievement at a marching band banquet in November 2021 at Fort Frye Middle/High School. (Photo Provided)
From left, Brandon Garvin, Brutus Buckeye, Valerie Urban and Brody Garvin take a picture at an Ohio State women’s basketball game in Columbus. (Photo Provided)
Brody Garvin, a student at Fort Frye High School, was selected to attend the S.A.V.E. Summer Institute in Denver, Colo. (Photo by James Dobbs)
Brody Garvin received a certificate of achievement at a marching band banquet in November 2021 at Fort Frye Middle/High School. (Photo Provided)
From left, Brandon Garvin, Brutus Buckeye, Valerie Urban and Brody Garvin take a picture at an Ohio State women’s basketball game in Columbus. (Photo Provided)
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BEVERLY -- Brody Garvin, Students Against Violence Everywhere (S.A.V.E.) Promise Club president and Fort Frye student was selected to go on a trip to Denver, Colo., where he will work with fellow National Youth Advisory Board members to stop violence.
S.A.V.E. Promise Club is one of the programs under Sandy Hook Promise, a national nonprofit created in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting in December 2012. The Sandy Hook Promise website says students in S.A.V.E. Promise Clubs receive tools and resources to plan events, activities and projects that promote kindness, inclusiveness and the value of looking out for one another.
Garvin applied to join the 2022-23 YAB and was selected out of 153,000 S.A.V.E. Promise Club members across the country. The YAB is comprised of 13 high school students, who are members of S.A.V.E. Promise Clubs in their respective schools, that work together to prevent violence and create safer communities. The YAB meets a few times a year and will meet for the S.A.V.E. Summer Institute in Denver. Colo. between July 24 and July 29. The students will complete team building activities, make presentations and discuss real world problems and mental health.
"SAFE means to me a place that I can go when I'm struggling to talk out my stress, like a safe haven," said Garvin. "It's important to me because you always need a place that you can go to that's always there, that's reliable."
Garvin said he is excited for the opportunity to be a part of the YAB. He said the trip will help him receive more education on how to personally prevent violence within his community and in general.
"We don't have very many people around our community that want to be open minded about trying to prevent violence," he said. "I'm excited because it's just an opportunity that not a lot of people get to have."
Garvin said through Fort Frye's S.A.V.E. program he has witnessed people being happier. He has also noticed more inclusiveness and an openness to accept the LGBTQ+ community within the school.
Garvin said he wants to do his part on educating youth on what violence is and how they can help stop it. He said at the beginning of the 2022-23 school year, the Fort Frye S.A.V.E. Promise Club will spend a whole day doing an elementary outreach program at Beverly-Center, Lowell and Salem-Liberty Elementary Schools, to educate them on what the club does and how the students can help. He said the presentation will include slideshows on how their club is preventing violence within the community.
James Dobbs can be reached at jdobbs@newsandsentinel.com