High School
safety and student achievement
Bystander Intervention
Teenagers are experiencing dating and sexual violence, stalking, and bullying at alarming rates in our high schools. This program incorporates into its training a teaching tool that includes group and individual activities, team competitions, workbook activities, group discussions, and game playing. It speaks to the students with a series of video vignettes produced with other high schoolers. Instructors learn about working with school systems and incorporating parents, teachers, coaches, and other important influential figures in the high school setting.
Research supported
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded a five-year study to evaluate Green Dot in High School across Kentucky. The study examined bystander intervention in 26 high schools over five years and confirms that Green Dot for High Schools reduces rates of sexual abuse, dating violence, stalking, and other interpersonal violence by statistically significant percentages. The study results were published in 2017 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Program Components
Workshops have been developed for students, teachers, and parents. They are highly interactive and use a bystander-framework to equip participants to (1) intervene in high-risk situations, and (2) do their part to ensure safety and maximize student achievement.
Booster activities are designed to strengthen prevention-related skills. Providing multiple doses of key content helps ensure new behaviors are sustained long enough to make a difference that lasts.
Ensuring Fidelity helps to maximum impact. Alteristic provides tools that can be used to monitor program implementation and make sure the program is a success.
