Projects in this category empower students and staff to transform school communities into places everyone feels they belong.

• Helping to create a school culture where all students and staff feel a sense of connection to one another and personal responsibility for the community.
• Addressing challenges related to apathy, lack of school spirit
• Demonstrating the benefits of including “outsiders” and addressing barriers to authentic inclusion.
• Create positive attitudes based on a new understanding of ourselves and others.
• Learn about normal human behavior’s that can act as a barrier to deciding to help others.
• Develop skills to intervene in positive ways.
• Learn skills to make taking another’s perspective second nature.
• Build the ability to reflect upon their own experience and relate this to another’s situation.
• Develop the capacity for empathy and positive actions.