The shooting incident that took place on October 24th and a recent increase in teenage harassment has the United Way encouraging schools to bolster their anti-bullying programs in area high schools.
The group has started raising money for United Change, a program that took off 7 years ago at Mark Morris High School. The goal is to take the program and expand it to high schools in Kelso, Woodland, Castle Rock, Wahkiakum, and perhaps Toutle and Kalama.
The program itself encourages students to take part in exercises that help them and their peers open up to one another. The camp divides students into small groups and challenges them to confront and develop solutions to common and societal problems that one would encounter on everyday life.
The final part of the program pushes students to apply everything they learned at camp and apply it to everyday life. This way schools can track how much of a positive impact and effect the program has had on its students.
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