Be Your Own Superhero – Tell a Teacher Program
Last year, the Greater Susquehanna Valley United Way enlisted Transitions’ elementary education department in helping them promote a prevention measure in the Chief Shikellamy Elementary school. The Be Your Own Superhero – Tell a Teacher program is based on the idea that kids who live in at-risk environments will identify their teachers as a trusted adult to help them with situations that are beyond their control at home. Using colorful, cute, and engaging caricatures of kid-size superheroes, kindergarteners and first and second graders will be encouraged to tell a teacher if they are allowed to smoke or drink bad things, taken to scary places, told to keep secrets about bad things, left alone and scared, go to bed hungry, or are afraid of their parents or guardians. Participating teachers receive an identifier – a superhero figure that says: “ Tell Me!” – as a way for students to know that this teacher will do what it takes to ensure their safety....