The CASS: Creating a Safe School™ Mentor Program trains high school students to mentor middle school students and is a starting point for school systems that want to address the issue of peer aggression. Simultaneously a middle school and high school program, mentors develop leadership skills and learn to deliver a Peer Aggression Intervention Program to middle school students.

While the major focus is to prepare the mentors to deliver the Peer Aggression Intervention Program, the high school students themselves undergo major positive changes. Based on reports from our schools, high school mentors:

• Learn and begin using The Language of Peer Aggression
• Consider the impact of their own beliefs and behaviors
• Develop leadership skills
• Examine the culture of their own high schools and become more aware of the presence of peer and relational aggression.

“CASS: Creating a Safe School Mentor Program” is sold with training and include:

• Facilitator Manual for teachers, administrators and those who coordinate the program (includes an adaptation of our How Kids Hurt and Help Each Other script)
• Mentor Manual: for high school teens who become mentors (includes an adaptation of our How Kids Hurt and Help Each Other script)
• Consultant Manual: for staff who serve as consultants to the school, faculty and parents

Begin a mentoring program at your school . Contact The Ophelia Project at 1-888-256-5437 or visit our Programs and Services page.