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?
Mia Balingit (they/she)
Community Education Manager
Mia is a proud queer Filipinx advocate dedicated to creating inclusive and empowering spaces. They began working at SAVE in 2022 as the Community Education Advocate, and as of July 2023 serves as SAVE's Community Education Manager.
Before their time at SAVE, Mia gained valuable experience in education as a Program Assistant for Boys and Girls Club of Hawai’i, as a K-5 educator, and as an Administrative Manager and Lead Art Teacher for a startup children’s learning center in O’ahu. Mia also has direct service experience as a former Family Support Worker for Catholic Charities Hawai’i, where they conducted home visiting services to support parents in creating and sustaining healthy parent-child bonds.
As a survivor of teen dating violence and sexual assault, Mia genuinely believes in the impact of prevention work and sharing healthy relationship education with folks from all walks of life. They believe that the power of education, art, and community are all incubators for meaningful connection, empowerment, and growth.
Outside of work, Mia loves journaling, art, tending to their plant babies, visiting local coffee shops, and spending time with their fur baby, Doja Dogg.
What's your favorite thing about prevention work?
- The opportunity to constantly learn from and connect with people! Prevention work is not a “one person” show – it takes a community of folx to come together to support each other in order to build sustainable and hopeful futures!
- Seeing how education and empowerment go hand in hand. Prevention is all about providing tools and confidence so that people can make the best choices for themselves and their future, and it’s amazing to support and witness that growth in others!
Skye Peredo (they/she)
Community Education Coordinator
Skye (they/she) joined SAVE as the Community Education Coordinator in November 2022. Born in Parañaque, Philippines, and raised in Sacramento, California, Skye has worked and volunteered in the fields of education, community organizing, criminal justice reform, child welfare and juvenile justice, homelessness and housing insecurity, and violence prevention. They are excited to work for an agency that believes the power young people have to create a consent-centered world and violence-free future. In her free time, Skye goes to the gym, reads tarot cards, creates digital art and fiction, and spends time with her furry and non-furry family members. They also like collaborating on projects with their fellow teammates at Recognize Violence, Change Culture (RVCC), a non-profit dedicated to supporting campus and community prevention programs with innovative tools.
What's your favorite thing about prevention work?
- Seeing the light bulbs go off! Conscious education plays a huge role in culture change, so I love seeing people’s eyes light up when they realize they deserve healthy and happy relationships and have the power to create them.
- Collective community action. I enjoy building partnerships and working alongside other people and organizations dedicated to making the world a better place.
- Joyful moments. Violence is a lived reality for many people, and prevention work is challenging and easily overwhelming. Despite all of this, I appreciate the moments where I can witness growth, empowerment, laughter, and change among individuals, groups, and communities.
Siobhan Moher (she/her)
Community Education Advocate
Siobhan (she/her) joined SAVE as the Community Education Advocate in July 2024. Born and 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. 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!
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.