SPAVA Board of Directors is working
hard to involve the community
to teach SPAVA to build a better society.
SPAVA Board of Directors
thanks all the mentors and the teachers and the students for their
work towards building a better society and success through non
violence.
If you want to volunteer please give us a call.
"We need you to volunteer and be a mentor today!"
Email us! timirb@aol.com
In response to the 1997 Heath High School
shooting tragedy, Dr. Timir Banerjee founded the Society for the
Prevention of Aggressiveness and Violence Among Adolescents (SPAVA),
a non-profit organization to help teach students a non-violent
approach to life. With the support of the JCPS, Catholic, public and
private school systems, trained volunteers mentor students and
present interactive programs to teach respect, integrity and
self-control. He leads fund-raising efforts to maintain the
operation of SPAVA as well as scholarship programs. In addition, Dr.
Banerjee has been a volunteer neurosurgeon in third world countries.
Upcoming Events
Please see Training Information above.
SPAVA is being taught in the California
Community Center during the summer of 2011.
Recent Happenings
Ms. Ela Edwards has been very active in
coordinating the SPAVA activities
Dr. Tony Belak is helping to make SPAVA more visible.
Dr. Timir Banerjee was the "Special Honoree"
on Doctor's day at the Greater Louisville Medical Society.
New!
Make a $40 Donation to SPAVA and you get a copy of
Book of Friendship
Adventures of Jo Jo and Her Friends
This is a book that teaches children that we are all different and yet
have different talents. Learning to celebrate the differences makes us
more effective and leads to success. Obedience is important. The need to
wear a helmet while riding a bicycle is expressed through the voice of a
woodpecker.
New!
Make a $40 Donation to SPAVA and you get a copy of
Pictorial Monograph
"Common Neurosurgical problems in Ethiopia"
By Dr. Zenebe Gadlie Damtie & Dr. Timir Banerjee
The Cat and the Kids of Millbrae
How Jo Jo Learnt to Eat a Carrot
Written by: Timir Banerjee Illustrated by: Michael Dickman
Send $25.00 donation
to SPAVA
PO Box 22067
Louisville, KY 40252
Conversation
with Anna: A Walk Across America
by Timir Banerjee
Send $40.00 donation to SPAVA
PO Box 22067
Louisville, KY 40252
and get a copy of "Conversation with Anna" or "Braying Donkey"
and for additional $10.00 donation get a SPAVA T shirt. Just
tell us your size.
"Conversation with Anna" will be available at Norton Gift Stores
in September.
The money will support
Norton Healthcare and SPAVA! On Amazon.com today!
Make a $40 Donation to SPAVA and you get a copy of
"Book of Essays about Life, Love and Medicine"!
The essays taken individually are like prescriptions to heal certain
areas of body or mind. They also describe some of the ways to be
successful in certain areas of medicine. However, the spirit of the book
is about being human first and a doctor later. The author describes the
ways he could express love and gratitude, to his patients, the living
laboratory, and his professors who taught him the ways of lighting the
Bunsen burner of life to perform the chemical reaction that is needed
for a blissful existence in the middle of stress. The author clearly
states that there is need to be human and yet aspire to be ascetic. The
mixture of spirituality and religion is obvious throughout the book. The
author describes that there is a dichotomy in life constantly in our
goals to be successful and yet find Nirvana and understanding that
Bhagavad Gita says “All sorrows are conquered in finding tranquility of
the soul.”
Make a $40 Donation to SPAVA
and you get a copy of
"A Day in Neurosurgery: Brain + Spine and a Lot More "!
Product Details ISBN: 978-1-4560-3053-7 #
Pages: 262 pages Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 Format: Soft cover Product
Description This is a book that will take the reader through a journey
of neurosurgery so that the reader can experience the stumbling blocks
and the hills on the path to the joy of becoming a neurosurgeon. The
author makes it eminently clear about the stresses and the tragedies
that he encounters during the life of being a neurosurgeon. There is a
constant turmoil to maintain a balance of family life, faith and work.
The author tries to bring out the point that, at the end, it is the love
of the patients and the doctor's expression of gratitude that fulfills
and energizes the life that is constantly filled with tension. The
author emphasizes the need to remain faithful to God.
Article "How to be a Happy Doctor - A Prescription: KY 20052" by Timir Banerjee, MD
May Issue of Greater Louisville Medical Society, click
here and got to pages 8 - 11
Past Events
Annual 2010 SPAVA Award Ceremony
SPAVA awarded 96 children monetary
awards total:
Gandhi and King (19), Peace maker award (37), PEAK award (10) and
STAR award to 30 children
SPAVA wishes to thank all the mentors, judges, students and teachers
for their participation.
SPAVA is especially grateful to Kosair charities, Cralle foundation,
EhomesUSA, Stockyards bank and Trust company, GLMS and JCPS and
numerous other donors who have helped SPAVA.
Click Here to downoad
SPAVA Flyer! (word doc)
or Click here to
view as a webpage
Our Goal
The Society for the prevention of Aggressiveness and Violence among Adolescents is a nonprofit organization, 501C organization developed to help teach children and youth a nonviolent approach to life. Community volunteers mentor children in the Jefferson County Schools and private school system. The children learn skills of anger and aggression control through negotiation. Mentors teach respect, honor, integrity, resilience and perseverance with challenges...
Our Accomplishments
We are now teaching more than 2200 children between Louisville and Canada and we have 75 mentors and teaching in more than 70 classes. In 2008 we have awarded 98 children monetary awards towards post secondary education.
We want to thank all the teachers, principals of the public schools, Catholic schools and Lutheran Schools, and all our mentors who helped our children SHINE.
In Appreciation
Dr. Burns
for her extensive efforts of peace making
and support of SPAVA.
Moira McGrath
for her persistence to promote peace and
spread the word of loving and brotherhood.
Dr. Brenda Morris and Ms. Pat
Taylor
for their enormous efforts and energy to
help our children succeed through nonviolence.
More News
SPAVA is getting ready to
start at Jackson Middle School, in Mississippi, the next school season.
SPAVA wishes good luck to the students of Jackson!
Dr. Brenda Morris from Rotary is teaching SPAVA at St. Anthony Community Center between 23rd and Market street. She has also taught at Mary Hurst.
Yvonne Webb is teaching SPAVA at NEW Zion Baptist Church.
Mark Hudson and Rod Fucella, both from Rotary are making a huge impact in the lives of the children.
The children of Surrey Elementary at Vancouver, BC are wearing SPAVA shirts and participating in SPAVA activities.
SPAVA salutes Ms. Tiffany for initiating SPAVA in that class. She is the teacher.
At the award ceremony on April 22nd, more than one hundred children received monetary awards for their exemplary work to promote brotherhood/sisterhood, acts of kindness and learning to get along.
SPAVA has started teaching at Park Hill community center.
SPAVA started at Surrey Centre Elementary at Surrey BC, Canada
SPAVA starting at Park Hill Community Center, Louisville on November 1, 2007
New! Click Here for
Curriculum Guide Grades 3–12
