Challenge Day is Fast Approaching
Attention Parents!
SVHS is fortunate to be hosting the award-winning Challenge Day Program for the 4th year. We are currently in need of adult volunteers to participate one of the two days. If you would be able to volunteer on either September 12th, or 13th (Monday or Tuesday), or would just like to learn more about this amazing program, please contact Mrs. Mogge or Mrs. Winter in the Counseling Department at SVHS, either by phone (815-645-2291), or e-mail:
Since 1987, Challenge Day programs have touched the lives of close to half-a-million teens and adults nationwide. The Program has received numerous awards from the juvenile justice system, government officials and many school districts and cities throughout the nation. The program was also featured on the television talk show Oprah, in the book Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, and the Emmy Award-winning documentary Teen Files: Surviving High School.
Challenge Days are powerful, high-energy programs in which youth and adult participants are guided through a series of experiential learning processes. The overall goals of the program are to increase personal power and self-esteem, to shift dangerous peer pressure to positive peer support and to eliminate the acceptability of teasing, violence and all forms of oppression. The programs are designed to unite the members of the school and/or community and to empower them to carry the themes of the program back to the greater school population.
Challenge Days successfully address the issues of violence, teasing, social oppression, racism, harassment, conflict management, suicide, peer pressure, alcohol and drugs.
For more information about Challenge Day, visit their website at:
