PLUS Program

Option 1:

2-Day Advisor Training Offsite

1. • • Understanding peer program research and its impact on youth development and developing a safe school environment.
     • Using peer educators in proactive situations to alleviate youth violence and address critical campus issues.
     • Develop Safe School Actions utilizing Youth Leaders under the scope of Prevention/Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
     • Understanding data and trends of critical youth issues
     • Getting Started with PLUS Program Implementation: identifying and selecting and training student leaders
     • PLUS Program Development: customizing your PLUS class, club, or after school program
     • PLUS Forums: organization, implementation and evaluation
     • Cross age mentoring strategies and activities
     • Establishing your calendar of events
     • Sustaining your PLUS Program: fundraising strategies, grant writing and community partnerships
     • Data collection: Collecting and analyzing both quantitative and qualitative campus numbers

Onsite Student/Advisor Training

1. • • Students (50-60) will participate in an action - learning environment to enhance the leadership skills required to implement the PLUS Program activities. The objectives of this 10 hour workshop include:
     • Team Building – the importance of belonging to a team
     • Learn the qualities of being a mentor and role model
     • Foster student skills for improving communication & listening
     • Strengthen student knowledge of youth trends and data
     • Increase public speaking skills
     • Lead and facilitate large group discussions & focus groups
     • Conflict Mediation Strategies
     • Application: Students will learn how to use their skills on campus and in their community through the implementation of PLUS.
     • PLUS Forums: organization, implementation and evaluation
     • Cross age mentoring strategies and activities
     • Establishing your calendar of events based off of data assessment gathered in PLUS Forum.
     • Student Leaders will learn techniques to facilitate discussions on critical issues amongst a group.
     • Student leaders will practice analyzing student beahvior data and developing program strategies to address identified behavior

 Take your Onsite PLUS Training Further

TEEN TRUTH PLUS - 2-Day Event

TEEN TRUTH PLUS, A comprehensive program that focuses in on youth development and building safer schools, combines the life changing TEEN TRUTH LIVE School Wide Assembly Experience with the powerful safe schools PLUS PROGRAM Onsite Training Development. This comprehensive 2-Day event will begin by reaching your entire student body with TEEN TRUTH LIVE’s powerful school-wide assembly experience. Upon completion of the assembly experience, 30-50 handpicked students from every social facet of your campus will receive the PLUS youth leadership training. These student leaders will learn how to implement activities to identify and respond to the critical issues that threaten your school culture. Each school will be receive a comprehensive TEEN TRUTH and PLUS Program Development Curriculum to use as a guide to keep the campus development consistent and sustainable. After TEEN TRUTH PLUS visits your campus your empowered leaders will use the knowledge of your campus issues to connect the entire student body and drive proven school climate change

CyberBully Alert Internet Safety Program

The act of kids bullying one another is not a new safety concern for parents or schools, but cyberbullying is. The Internet and social networking sites have established an unsupervised arena for individuals to attack one another. A drastic difference between schoolyard bullying and cyberbullying is that there are no adults supervising in the cyber world. In the cyber world, kids are left alone to deal with the emotions that result from online harassment.  To address this emerging trend schools and students need to begin a cycle of actions as a response.  This training program will highlight a variety of strategies that the PLUS Program must engage in to become active participants in the fight against cyberbullying.

This powerful addition to the onsite PLUS Program training will challenge student leaders to tackle the critical issue of internet and cyberbullying by coming together and taking care of one another. This one of a kind program option will equip all students on a campus with the internet safety software, CyberBully Alert.  This unique option gives schools a powerful youth leadership activities, backed with the protection of the internet safety software CyberBully Alert.Students will learn current data, trends, and forms of cyberbullying and bullying. Students will be challenged to take a stand and support one another on a campus. Student leaders will learn how to teach other students about cyberbullying and how to utilize Cyberbully Alert software to document, alert and report any cyberbullying they or a friend might encounter while online.