In this Solutionary Team, we seek to build positive interpersonal relationships that promote a peaceful coexistence for a more secure school environment.

 

We provide a SAFE ZONE for all students where harassment or discrimination is not allowed on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, handicapping condition, social and family background, sexual identity or orientation. 

 

This year we will be working with MCCJ's Student Voices, a leadership

 

 MCCJ’s Student Voices, formerly known as the Heritage Panels, is a leadership, prejudice-reduction, and anti-bullying program. Since 1991, MCCJ staff and school counselors have worked together to empower high school students to explore cultural diversity within their communities and develop self-esteem, while fostering values that support the understanding of individual differences. 

 

The Student Voices program begins with a two-day, off-campus training, co-facilitated by MCCJ Staff and school counselors. During the training, youth undergo trust-building exercises that gradually allow them to open up and form meaningful relationships with their classmates. MCCJ staff and counselors then provide Student Voices trainees with tools to appropriately confront prejudice in all its forms, including stereotyping, bullying and discrimination.

 

The training concludes by preparing students to serve as a Student Voices Panelist. Following the training, Student Voices Panelists share their experiences of prejudice, bullying, and discrimination with their classmates, and work with counselors to co-facilitate the ensuing class discussion. This peer education methodology deeply impacts school culture, reaching hundreds of students and tangibly reducing bullying, intimidation, cliques, taunting and harassment in the classroom.

 

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