Cleveland, Ohio – Save Our Families announces the launch of its Spring 2026 Community Care & Leadership Series, a four-week virtual educational program designed to equip community members with practical tools for intervention, dialogue, sustainability, and belonging. The series begins March 6, 2026, and will be held virtually via Google Meet from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EST. 

This series reflects our long-standing commitment to strengthening how we show up for one another. We are investing in practical tools that support intervention, courageous conversation, sustainable leadership, and belonging. These are not abstract ideals. They are skills that shape the culture around us.

Our work has always centered on growth, unity, and healing. This series continues that commitment by equipping our community to act with clarity, responsibility, and care.

The four-session series includes:
5 D’s of Bystander Awareness – Creating Safer, More Inclusive Spaces
An interactive session introducing a proven framework for responding to discrimination, harassment, bias, and harmful behavior. Participants will learn the 5 D’s of Bystander Intervention: Distract, Delegate, Document, Delay, and Direct, along with strategies for assessing safety and responding without escalation.
Brave Discussions Across Difference – From Conflict to Connection
A structured, human-centered dialogue training designed to help participants navigate polarization, generative conflict, and de-escalation in both community and professional settings.
Cycles of Becoming – A Framework for Rooted Living
A course in human-centered design and emotional ecology that supports sustainable leadership and regenerative growth, particularly for individuals engaged in community care work.
Belonging – What It Is and Why It Matters
An exploration of belonging as a practice rooted in safety, trust, consent, and equity, examining how identity, power, and lived experience shape connection in community spaces.

Register here: https://forms.gle/V37YkFRZ8DUPd39q7

The series will be facilitated by Dairdre Scriven, a community educator and facilitator with over 20 years of experience in de-escalation, community organizing, and education. Scriven’s approach is trauma-aware and consent-informed, grounded in human dignity and practical application..

The Community Care & Leadership Series is open to community members, volunteers, peer workers, and individuals seeking to deepen their leadership practice in prevention and relational safety.