During the 2015-16 school year, Pea Ridge began the Anti-Ambassador program.
The program is designed to help identify the trends of bullying and address needs of students within the Pea Ridge School District. In the last year, the Ambassadors conducted research within the schools to identify and prioritize goals to eliminate bullying, worked on building positive relationships by providing supportive programs to all Pea Ridge schools, and working with school counselors on developing ways to further address bullying within our schools.
This August, the Anti-Bullying Ambassadors received training in several aspects of bullying. The training was delivered by the Child Advocacy Center (CAC) where they instructed specific ways the ambassadors can develop their role to eliminate bullying within the district. They were shown ways to raise awareness, appropriate ways to address bullying among peer groups and received guidance on ways to support vulnerable students within the school. Topics of the training included how to identify bullying, how to address cyber bullying, ways to be a supportive and responsible peer to other students, and ways that they can help students who are being bullied find the help that they need.
The Ambassadors for this school year are James Patton, Levi Peronia, Megan Crawford, Dakota Head and Robby Pickthall. Throughout the year, the ambassadors hope to gain more students to help work with this growing program. Ambassadors are working diligently on several activities and programs for October which is Bullying Awareness and Prevention month.
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Editor's note: Amanda Childs is the social worker for the Pea Ridge School District.
Community on 08/17/2016