SOS Transition Program

School Transition lets students engage with their new school to succeed academically and socially. The program develops friendships across grade levels and creates a caring school environment.

The program is unique in its use of trained peer leaders who mentor the same small group of 6-10 incoming students throughout the first semester of their transition. The program is built upon a specific structure and curriculum and provides a continuous and stable relationship with an upper class peer for at least the first semester and often longer by mutual choice. In addition there is ongoing school faculty support in both the classrooms where the program takes place with at least one certificated coordinator of the S.O.S. program.

A complete Transition Program includes Adult Training, Program Curriculum, and Peer Leader Training.

Adult Training Session:

• Participants to include: program coordinator, school counselor, administrators, teachers, school board members, parents, and school site members
• Facilitated by Sharon Yoerg or Maureen Campbell
• $900 for Full-Day Adult Training plus travel expenses

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Program Curriculum:

• Fully-developed curriculum covers all aspects of the Transition program
• Curriculum reusable year-to-year and will be updated free-of-charge
• Can be reproduced at your school as needed
• Includes all lessons and forms for programs
• Price includes complimentary on-going program support
• $199 for comprehensive Transition Curriculum Package

Peer Leader Training Session: (to be combined with Adult Training)

Training length depends on experience of peer leaders. See choices below:

A) Experienced Peer Leaders -- For students already part of an existing on-campus peer helping program

• 1-day training for peer leaders (up to 50 participants)
• Training in: presentation and group facilitation skills; cultural awareness and diversity, building cultural competencies, and Transition lessons
• Facilitated by Sharon Yoerg or Maureen Campbell
• $900 for Experienced Peer Leader Training plus travel expenses

B) New Peer Leaders -- For students at a school where no peer helping/mediation program is already in place

Two days of training for peer leaders (up to 50 participants):

Day 1 = General peer helping skills including: communication and conversational skills -- listening, questioning, restating, summarizing, I-messages, feeling statements, handling silence

Day 2 = Training in: presentation and group facilitation skills; cultural awareness and diversity, building cultural competencies, and Transition lessons

Facilitated by Sharon Yoerg or Maureen Campbell

$1,800 for New Peer Leader Training (2 days @ $900 each) plus travel expenses

Click here for a sample schedule of the SOS Transition Program