SAVE's Community Education Team is dedicated to empowering our communities to end the cycle of violence and build healthy relationships through comprehensive violence prevention and healthy relationship education. We take a trauma-informed, strengths-based, and community-centered approach in our work, striving to embed the frameworks of inclusion, intersectionality, social justice, and youth and community empowerment in all that we do.
We have served over 35 schools in the Bay Area, provided hundreds of school and community presentations, tabled at hundreds of community events, and served over thousands of community members! How can we best serve you?
Jane Dalugdugan (she/her)
Community Education Manager
Jane (she/her) is the Community Education Manager at SAVE. Jane earned a Bachelors of Arts in Public Health from UC Berkeley and her Masters in Public Administration, focused on Health Policy, from New York University. Jane has over 20 years of experience in public health, health education, and community development in diverse communities. She started as a peer health educator in college, promoting sexual health and HIV/AIDS awareness among youth and Asian American, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander communities. She has devoted her life's work to addressing health disparities and bringing awareness to stigmatized issues such as sex, HIV/AIDS and now, intimate partner violence.
What's your favorite thing about prevention work?
Phoebe Bain (she/her)
Community Education Specialist
Phoebe (she/her) is a Community Education Specialist at SAVE. She has a background in women’s sexual health education and gender-based violence intervention and crisis response, both internationally and locally, here in the Bay Area. As a survivor of sexual violence, she finds deep meaning and joy in prevention education. She gets excited about making these hard conversations easier to have, building violence literacy, and having a fun time doing it! Outside of work, she spends time making street art, feeding small furry creatures, and reading science fiction and fantasy.
What's your favorite thing about prevention work?
- Watching people find their voice! To quote Maggie Khan: “Speak up, even if your voice shakes”- when folks are able to find that power when they haven’t had it before, it's like magic to watch and one of the most wonderful things about my job.
- Another favorite thing is talking to all kinds of different people. I love talking about these things that we so often don't get to talk about, and building community and shared compassion around them. Everyone has concerns about violence in the world, and everyone has parts of the answers. We have so much to learn from each other and to celebrate all the differences that make us so strong!
Siobhan Moher (she/her)
Community Education Specialist
Siobhan (she/her) is the Community Education Specialist at SAVE. Raised in San Leandro, Siobhan earned a B.A. in psychology from UC Santa Cruz. During her time at UCSC, Siobhan worked in prevention education as an intern at CARE, the university’s office that supports survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner/domestic violence, stalking, and sexual harassment. She also volunteered at Building Futures’ Sister Me Home safe house in San Leandro where she gained direct experience supporting survivors. She is excited to be back in the Bay Area and working in the community to foster healthy relationship building and to prevent violence! In her free time, Siobhan enjoys hiking with her dog, traveling, and reading.
What’s your favorite thing about prevention work?
- The opportunity to engage the community! Prevention work that is community-centered reaches a wider audience and creates sustainable change. I love seeing community members contributing their own ideas and coming together to share their experiences.
- Creating a safe space to discuss sensitive topics and for survivors to support each other. Prevention education work gives us the opportunity to discuss what healthy relationships look like and to support each other in fostering those relationships!
- The connection between prevention and social justice issues more broadly. Survivors’ experiences of intimate partner violence intersect with the social injustices they face, which means that prevention work must be directly tied to fighting injustices and creating equity in our communities.