Safe Schools Ambassadors
Reducing Peer Mistreatment & Improving School Climate at Potter Junior High School
Our Goals
Our Goals
- Promote and increase academic achievement
- Create a positive campus culture
- Help students feel safe through improving school climate
When students get along, they feel*:
- Safer
- More connected
- More engaged in learning
Engaging students is important because students…
- Are 90% of the school population.
- Are the primary targets and perpetrators of mistreatment in schools.
- See, hear and know things adults don’t.
- Can intervene in ways adults can’t.
- Turn to each other first when upset or in need.
- Set the tone and social norms on campus.
- Adults can’t do it alone!
Safe School Ambassadors
- Program Overview: A research-based, field-tested strategy to empower and equip students to reduce bullying and other forms of mistreatment.
- Key Elements:
- Identify, recruit, select & engage the right students
- 38 diverse student leaders
- 8 adults
- Provide skill based training
- 2-day training led by Community Matters
- Discuss types of mistreatment & ways to intervene
- Start with themselves, then friends/family, then classmates/community
- Provide ongoing supervision/support
- Weekly/bimonthly meetings with students
- End of year celebration
- Assess & measure program effectiveness
- Continue program in future years
- Fallbrook HS implementing SSA
- Identify, recruit, select & engage the right students