Challenge Day Volunteer

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On Thursday, January 19, 2017, help support students at Jack London YMCA by participating in Challenge Day!

Challenge Day is a day-long interactive workshop where teens, teachers, and community members experience for themselves that compassion and connection are indeed possible in our schools.

Through thought-provoking games, activities, and discussions, the Challenge Day provides participants with tools to break down the walls of separation and isolation and build new levels of respect and communication. Trained Challenge Day Leaders expertly create a program environment of safety, trust, and full expression.

Students and adults leave Challenge Day inspired and empowered to become leaders in their schools and communities and to Be the Change they wish to see in the world.

Challenge Day programs are award-winning experiential programs designed to help stop the bullying, violence and alienation that is part of the daily school experience for thousands of young people in Central Oregon everyday.

The Challenge Day Program:

• Reduces teasing, stereotyping, social oppression, and bullying
• Teaches tools for peaceful conflict resolution
• Enhances skills for healthy emotional expression
• Increases students’ self-esteem, sense of purpose, and integrity
• Builds empathy and community on campus

In studies conducted after Challenge Day, students report that they:

• Are more accepting of fellow students
• See students tease each other less
• Feel less lonely at school
• Ask others for feedback more readily
• Are comfortable being leaders