Safer Schools & Prevention Curricula
While many support options exist to help schools deal with the emotional and social needs of students, AIMHI Educational Programs focuses on those areas related to conflict and character education.
- Building Caring Communities: Keeping Our Schools Safe – Through interactive presentation of a concrete planning model for systemic change, You will determine what “caring community” components your school has in place, what’s missing, what’s not working and what still needs to be done to achieve your goals.
Intended audiences: Principals
Format: Workshop – 90 Minutes
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- Adolescent Girls: Fostering Courage, Strength and Compassion – Participants gain an understanding of how adolescent girls make moral choices and how those choices effect their relationships. Susan explains the transition from girl to women and the implications for moral development, the power behind the media and it’s role in molding young women.
Intended audiences: Principals
Format: Workshop – 90 Minutes
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- Anger Management: Transform Student Anger to Personal Power – The Anger Management Program is a hands-on, practical introductory program to teach anger management skills. It is based on an 8-session model; however, it can be extended if the opportunity exists. It’s based on the five-component process for conflict education defined in Free The Children: Conflict Education for Strong Peaceful Minds, by Susan Fitzell. These five components are necessary to promote long term results in any conflict, character, or anger education program.
Intended audiences: Teachers
Format: Workshop – 360 Minutes
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- Bullying in the Cafeteria and Playground: What to do about it! – Susan presents practical effective strategies for building caring, safe communities in our schools. She addresses the issues of bullying, character education, conflict resolution, team building, and diversity with respect for the diverse personalities amongst school staff. The workshop methods include quality visuals, small group work and discussion, interactive presentation, and handouts to achieve the goals of the program session.
Intended audiences: Teachers, ParaProfessionals
Format: Workshop – 180 Minutes
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- Bullying: Understanding and Technique for All Ages – In this dynamic, interactive workshop, you will gain an understanding of what bullying is and learn some action ‘thoughts’ and techniques to address the problem.
Intended audiences: Teachers, ParaProfessionals
Format: Workshop – 180 Minutes
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- Character Education: How Teachers, Staff & Students Can Respond to Bullying – Violence, and it’s use as an answer to conflict, is a major issue in our schools. As a society, we keep trying quick fix solutions to address the problem. This Band-Aid approach does not work. Perceptions and Attitudes need to change. This change begins with education and the start of a new path. This workshop provides the foundation for this path. What is presented is not exclusive of programs in your school, rather, it enhances the effectiveness of programs in place and fills the gaps.
Intended audiences: Teachers
Format: Workshop – 360 Minutes
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- Choices and Consequences: Bullying – Define bullying, examine the options available to those who bully and those are bullied, and discuss ways to deal effectively with bullying situations.
Intended audiences: Parents
Format: Workshop – 150 Minutes
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- Finding Balance in Stressful Lives – Identify common causes of stress we experience as parents and identify strategies to reduce stress and find balance with today’s stressful lifestyles.
Intended audiences: Parents
Format: Workshop – 150 Minutes
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- Media: Impact on Children’s Moral Development – Violence in the media is a problem with devastating consequences. Not only are our children being conditioned to think in terms of combat, to think of it as entertainment, and to accept it as normal, but there is also strong evidence indicating that it physically alters the brain. Learn what parents and educators can do to take action!
Intended audiences: Teachers, Counselor/Student Assistant Professional
Format: Workshop – 180 Minutes
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- Parents & Schools: Working Together – Define parental involvement, identify barriers, and seek creative solutions to parental involvement issues as an integral player in your child’s education.
Intended audiences: Parents
Format: Workshop – 150 Minutes
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- Peer Pressure – Strategies to help children and teens cope with peer pressure while helping parents avoid mixed messages and increase communication with their children.
Intended audiences: Parents
Format: Workshop – 150 Minutes
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- Through the Eyes of Howard Gray: Dealing with Bullying and Peer Pressure – “Howard Gray” is a song, which tells the true story of a student who is different and ridiculed by his peers because of it. The song helps the listener identify with the realities of the way people are often mistreated. During this workshop session, we will discuss the struggles young people face when put downs, bullying, harassment and peer pressure are part of their lives. We will also discuss how we can become caring listeners and make a positive difference for our peers.
Intended audiences: Students
Format: Workshop – 60 Minutes
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