YCWA 2008 Website of the Year-Stop Vandalism!

• Hopefully, if everything goes as planned we will go to Miami in March and maybe even Maine; spreading our message even further.
• We hope to try and get in as many Action Projects as possible.  Now that our committee is fully functional and ready to go, we can start on really trying to make a difference.
• As our original group of members has know moved up to 9th grade, we hope that we can establish our program in Coventry High School as well as we did in the middle school. 
• Of course, we plan on raising some money this year so we can afford more hightech and expensive things that will help us with our goals that we couldn't of afforded before.
• The High School has also instituted the program Project Citizen and we hope that we can succeed in completing all the steps of Project Citizen by the end of this year. (For more information on the High School's intentions, click on the link High School Branch on the left side bar)

Actions in 2007

• Presented at a YCWA Denver Conference on the week of March 20th.
• Presented at Kids Consortium in Maine on the week of March 28th .
• With our Action Plan committee, we will try to clean up as many historical cemetaries as we can.
• Updated our old PowerPoint on all of the functions and goals of SAVE.

• Presented at New England KIDS Service Learning Conference in Maine – Spring ‘06
• Met with R.I. Attorney General Patrick Lynch to discuss vandalism and how it hurts kids and communities – June ‘06
• Received $5000 from Wal-Mart to create community awareness about vandalism – Oct. ‘06
• Repaired and painted over graffiti in Coventry Girls softball dugouts.
• Planted new trees and gardens at KOMS.
• Starting team Adopt-a-Spot program at KOMS to create student ownership.
• Starting “Quick Response Team” (Q.R.T.) to repair vandalism when it happens.
• Implementing Youth Crime Watch program at KOMS!

• Cleaned up Knotty Oak Cemetery and re-flagged veterans’ graves.
• Our organization created bookmarks, signs and bumper stickers for grades K-12 to help out our town with the growing problem of property destruction.  Within the first week we passed out these items, a citizen pulled out his bookmark with the police number and reported a vandal.  As you can see, our actions have made a difference.
• Put in $6000 worth of donated landscaping to beautify our school, Flat River.
• Created a PowerPoint presentation to educate students and communities about vandalism.
• Taught classes at school’s annual Health Fair about relationship of vandalism and other abuses, etc.