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Reaching Resolution

Sacramento County Program

Each fall CYC selects 20 schools from Sacramento County to participate in the Reaching Resolution Countywide Program. The primary goal is to develop effective student mediators that can provide ongoing conflict resolution services to their peers and help to create safer classrooms, schools and communities. The skills that students gain by participating in conflict resolution programs are also skills that are essential in their role both as student leaders today and as adult leaders in the communities of tomorrow. The components of the yearlong program include:

• Site Coordinator training: Site Coordinators and administrators attend a two-day intensive training that focuses on developing communication skills, the “nuts and bolts” for implementing and expanding school site conflict resolution programs, and includes a resource binder and training video.



• Youth Leadership Camp: Each fall CYC hosts and conducts an annual Youth Leadership Camp for high school and middle school students in the Reaching Resolution program. Through the Camp’s dynamic, hands-on training activities, students gain skills in the areas of communication, conflict resolution & peer mediation, problem solving & decision making, diversity awareness, teambuilding, collaboration, and planning. In the process, students also learn how these skills can develop their leadership abilities and impact not only themselves but also their peers, schools, and communities as well.
  
  Throughout the weekend, students also have an opportunity to interact with various community leaders to gain an understanding of the “real-world” applications for their enhanced skills. With a trainer-of-trainers approach and an emphasis on teamwork, the Camp is beneficial for schools that either currently have a student conflict resolution program in place, or for schools that would like to implement one for the first time. After camp, student leaders return to their schools, homes and communities having acquired valuable lifelong skills, knowledge and attitudes that equip them to create positive alternatives to conflict and violence.



• Leadership and Site Coordinator Meetings: Middle and High school students and all site coordinators attend three quarterly meetings to continue adding skills to their “tool box.” At these meetings, students receive training in areas such as diversity, sexual harassment, anger management and school/law enforcement partnerships.

The culmination of the program is the annual
Reaching Resolution Showcase event.

If you have more questions about the Reaching Resolution program, please contact the Center for Youth Citizenship at (916) 228-2322 or cyc@scoe.net.

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