"The PLUS Program is an outstanding opportunity to empower youth as agents in creating positive, powerful changes in the culture of our schools. With over eighteen years of experience in school safety, I have not come across a more effective approach than the PLUS Program".   -  Wayne Sakamoto - Safe Schools Expert

"On a campus of 3000 plus students, the Peer Leaders Uniting Students Program has helped build build our campus more into a community.  Students of all backgrounds work towards a greater unity, community and understanding of one another. PLUS has helped students realize that they matter and the stories of all students are important."  -  Shane Morey - PLUS Advisor, Escondido High School

"Having my players go through the PLUS training was an essential ingredient to the success of our program each year. Our players learned the importance of being role models and mentors to not only the younger players in our program, but to all students on our campus."  -  Wally Clark - Head Football Coach

“PLUS is what I've been looking for all these years! As a school counselor, I was always looking for something that would empower and appeal to ALL students to demonstrate their leadership and at the same time truly make a difference on our campus and in our community. The PLUS Program creates and spreads a consistent message of the importance of connections and relationships. It is a program genuinely based on the students and their voices. When we create a safe environment and give our students permission to truly speak their minds, be heard and listen to each other, then the magic happens.”  -  Cherryl Baker - School Counselor, PLUS Advisor, Mission Hills High School

"Every counseling department across the country should be implementing the PLUS Program in their schools."  -  Dean Lesicko - District Coordinator/Counselor, Murrieta Valley Unified School District

“Peer Programs are dramatically more effective than all other programs – even at the lowest level of intensity. Peer – led classroom-based programs for middle and junior high school students are statistically superior to the same programs being taught by teachers.”  - California Department of Education

Here is what students are saying about PLUS...

PLUS is the best program I have ever experienced. It truly makes a change in a lot of people's lives. You learn to open up your eyes and experience someone for who they really are rather than what they look like. It gives you the chance to meet new people that you would never have thought of talking to and you can solve problems while working with kids that are just like you. Amen to this WONDERFUL program! Open up and be a leader.  - Jackie Boggess, Student, Marcos De Niza High School

"I thought I knew the majority of people at our school and I thought I was good at not judging people before I got to know them. Being a PLUS leader opened my eyes to all the people at school that I hadn't gotten to know based on judgments I didn't even know I had. PLUS helped me make numerous connections with people that I didn't think I could ever connect with. -  Kelsey Calloway, Student, Marcos De Niza High School

"After the PLUS Forum: "I felt it gave me a sense of security about the school. Now I have a lot more respect for others."   -  Student Vista Murrieta High School

"As part of PLUS I became more involved in school and met a lot of new people and friends!" - Student, Escondido High School

"The PLUS Program training was by far the best training I have ever experienced as a youth leader."  -  Student - La Sierra High School