Peers Making Peace: Adult Training on 26-Oct-09 8:30 AM

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:30:00 GMT

Peers Making Peace: Adult Training
Start Date: 26-Oct-09 8:30 AM
End Time: 28-Oct-09 4:30 PM
Location: Pearce Middle School, Austin, Texas 78723
Speaker: S. Armoni & R. Gonzales

Event Details:

Peers Making Peace (PMP) is a peer-mediation program developed to help create and maintain safe and drug free schools by equipping students with attitudes and skills to stay drug-free, stay in school and avoid violence by resolving conflicts in a peaceful, prosocial manner. The goal of the program is to improve the school environment by reducing violence, assaults, discipline referrals, and increasing academic performance. In the PMP intervention, teams of student volunteers are trained to serve as drug free role models and "neutral third parties" to provide mediation services for their peers who lack the skills to successfully resolve their conflicts. The program is based on two parallel philosophical foundations: a strong "no use" message, and the "resiliency and protective factor" approach to prevention.

Participants will be able to implement the proven, science/research based peer mediation programs on their pre-k-12 campuses.

Pearce Middle School

6401 N. Hampton Dr

Austin, Texas 78723

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Peers Making Peace: Adult Training on 26-Oct-09 8:30 AM