What Parents Can Do to Promote Safer Schools and Communities
In the wake of multiple recent mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton, the national conversation about how to best make our schools and communities safer has intensified. One strategy that is research-proven to reduce community violence is social-emotional education.
In Santa Barbara, parents have a unique opportunity to enroll their 13-18-year-old children in a free school-based social-emotional learning program – AHA! Peace Builders – where they learn to express and manage their emotions, cope with stress, communicate well, listen deeply (even to those with whom they disagree), ask for and give support, and resolve conflict.
AHA! Peace Builders is currently enrolling youth in all grades at Santa Barbara and Dos Pueblos high schools and 8th graders at La Colina, La Cumbre, Goleta Valley, and Santa Barbara junior high schools.
