Brief Descriptions of Sunday Training Sessions

 

 

Life Skills Training     Return to Registration Page

This program for 3rd-9th grade students teaches prevention-related information and drug refusal skills as well as promoting anti-drug norms and fostering the development of personal self-management skills and general social skills, including anger management.

 

 

Second Step     Return to Registration Page

Second Step is an excellent violence prevention curriculum that teaches empathy, impulse control, and anger management.  The program is well researched, experiential, multi-cultural and well validated. It is rated an exemplary program in violence prevention by the US Dept. of Education.  Appropriate for Elementary Schools.

 

 

Aggression Replacement Training     Return to Registration Page

Experiential training in an expanded version of curriculum developed by Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein from Syracuse University.  Appropriate for Middle and High Schools.  Teaches empathy and anger management.

 

 

Sexual Harassment Prevention     Return to Registration Page

Learn what constitutes sexual harassment, including contributing factors, language and behaviors, flirting, assumptions and schools’ liability.  Review case examples, the laws and legal responses to sexual harassment lawsuits.

 

 

Bullying Prevention     Return to Registration Page

This presentation will provide strategies from the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program.  Attendees will be involved in interactive and participant-led activities.  Individual, classroom, and school-wide interventions will be provided.

 

 

School-Wide Behavioral Interventions (Support)     Return to Registration Page

Providing educational programs for children who have significant behavioral needs is often highly challenging.  Traditional approaches to working with these students often focus on trying to “fix” the individual.  However, a recent emphasis on “Positive Behavioral Support” encourages development of school-wide systems that improve outcomes for all children and youth.  A comprehensive, three level approach for building a school-wide system of behavioral support will be presented.