Volunteer
Dear Community Member:
Please join us as an Adult Facilitator at our upcoming Middle School Challenge Days.
Challenge Days are powerful, high-energy programs in which youth and adult participants are guided through a series of experiential learning processes. The program's overall goals are to increase personal power and self-esteem, shift dangerous peer pressure to positive peer support, and eliminate the acceptability of teasing, violence, and all forms of oppression.
For every four students participating in the program, we need one adult volunteer to stay the entire day.
The Challenge Day program is designed to unite the school community members and empower them to carry the program's themes back to the school population. Challenge Days also successfully addresses violence, teasing, social oppression, racism, harassment, conflict management, suicide, peer pressure, alcohol, and drugs.
We encourage adults to volunteer for a day as positive role models to benefit the youth. Your role as an adult volunteer is crucial, and the program welcomes parents/guardians, teachers, administrators, police officers, elected officials, community members, and other interested adults. This allows youth to see another side of these adults in addition to their assigned community roles.
Adult Facilitators are crucial for the success of the day. Challenge Day!
Staff will meet with all Facilitators about 30 minutes before the start of the actual program to let you know what is needed from you and to answer your questions. Please watch this 5-minute video about the volunteer experience.
In order for the pre-program meeting to begin on time, please arrive no later than the “arrive at” time listed for your site below.
See you next year!
No prior training is necessary besides what is covered during the morning check-in meeting. The Challenge Day staff closely monitors the program, and our Leaders will give all instructions throughout the day. You must be able to remain on-site and participate fully for the entire program, including 30 minutes after the students are excused at the end of their Challenge Day for a debriefing.
We hope you will be able to join us for this wonderful experience on one of the following days:
Click Here to Fill Out The Volunteer Form:
Questions:
Visit the Challenge Day Volunteer FAQ: https://www.challengeday.org/learn
Or Email:
Shana Rhoades
shana.rhoades@jcisd.org
Jackson County ISD