Reserve Your Volunteer Spot at Challenge Day 2012
Challenge Day 2012: January 17-20
Save a date to volunteer! We need at least 25 adult facilitators each day from 8:30 am-5 pm. Plan a day off from work or arrange for a sitter. Adults get as much out of it as the kids!
Don’t have all day? We also need volunteers to help distribute lunches and be door monitors. Contact Gretchen Buchanan to volunteer.
No one leaves Challenge Day unchanged.
Challenge Day shows us that we have much more in common as human beings than we do that artificially sets us apart by where we live, the clothes we wear, the color of our skin, the music we listen to, or the hurt we’ve had in our lives.
Volunteer adult facilitators are a crucial part of the experience for the students.
And yet you need no special skills or training — just one day to devote to the kids and an open mind.
On Challenge Day at ECMS, 7th graders and adult volunteers are guided through a powerful, high-energy day of learning by experience. Challenge Day staff meet with volunteers before the program to explain the day and answer questions. Challenge Day staff closely monitor the program and give all instructions throughout the day.
This is a full-day experience. You must be able to remain on site and participate for the entire program on one of the four days, from 8:45 a.m. to 4:45 pm, with no access to cell phones or laptops. This includes a 30-minute debriefing at the end of the day.
If you would like to experience Challenge Day as an adult facilitator, please email Challenge Day Chair Gretchen Buchanan.
Challenge Day increases personal power and self esteem, shifts negative peer pressure to positive support, and makes teens understand that teasing, racism, peer pressure, violence and all forms of oppression are unacceptable.
Since 2008 at East Cobb Middle School …
~ 1,600 7th graders have had the gift of the Challenge Day program. Another 400 will experience it in January 2012.
~ 400 adult volunteers have been privileged to be a part of the experience. Another 115 will get to participate this year.
Kids connect. They apologize to people they have hurt with words and actions.
Teachers see the lives of their students. They resolve to consider these kids as individuals and do what it takes to help them succeed.
