Anti-bullying

The Safe School Ambassadors® program empowers leaders from the diverse groups and cliques on campus and equips them with nonviolent communication and intervention skills to stop bullying and violence among their peers.
 * Safe School Ambassador**
 * What is the program**

Why it’s effective
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 * Carefully identifying and engaging the influential students – who shape the school’s norms – harnesses their power to improve the school’s climate.
 * Students acquire skills they can use in the moment, with their friends, to defuse and deescalate potentially hurtful incidents.
 * Key adults are trained to facilitate regular small-group meetings of Ambassadors which sharpen their skills, sustain their commitment, and increase their reporting of dangerous activities like planned fights or weapons on campus.
 * Schools receive ongoing coaching and support – via phone, email, bulletins and web-based resources – to help address any implementation challenges and sustain the program

[|SSA Fact Sheet] Nancy this looks like it might be a nice handout.....let me know what you think. Maybe we could put something on the back of this that discusses Olweus. It actually looks like the SSA program was formed based on the work done by Olweus and others.

Olweus is a program that deals with bullying at the schoolwide, classroom, individual, and community levels. It is a research based program that reduces bullying in schools. It is a teacher focused system.
 * Olweus bullying prevention program**
 * What is the program:**
 * Why do we need it?**
 * **statistics show that 23% of students in grades 4 -6 had been bullied "several times" or more; 20% had bullied others**


 * **statistics show that 17% of students in grades 6 - 10 had been bullied "several times" or more, wjth 8% being bullied once a week; 19****% had bullied others**
 * Physical and emotional consequences to students

Lisa - there is more I can add to this section but I don't know how much you want up here.