Programs

Picture a classroom

The desks have been pushed to the side and a group of peer leaders are leading a warm up exercise in which a single student is molded into increasingly bizarre shapes to the delight of all.

Followed closely by a group brainstorm about our values in the community and the influences that we both shape and are shaped by.

Imagine the same peer leaders mediating a dispute between two students that started in a pushing and shouting match but now has them talking about their real needs and how to arrive at a fair solution.

Or see a teacher and two Peer Leaders mentoring repeat suspension students in an alternative to suspension program who have missed fifteen days in the last month but are at school today and participating.

Peer Leaders and teachers at work in Trinity programs that pay attention to our social/emotional development

because our social/emotional lives are the ground from which all else of importance in our lives will grow including

our ways of thinking and values and more importantly our sense of ourselves, sense of place and learning capacity.

Rudeness, immature conduct, attendance issues and violent behaviour, etc. are the symptoms of core concerns in social/emotional development.

Core concerns such as belonging, a sense of self,
ability to relate and correspond with others,
and the capacities to observe, reflect and learn

both for individuals and their communities.

The following Trinity programs address core concerns:

Trinity Transitions Program

A year long program carried out by a group of trained Peer Leaders; five visits to entry level classrooms throughout the school year with reports to teachers, administration, parents and networking with Peer Leaders in other schools. Issues addressed include respect, bullying and relational aggression, student success and drug prevention. Skills taught include self awareness, assertiveness, resilience, conflict management. Two visits to second year classrooms and on-line discussions maintain the Peer Leader / student connection throughout the year.

Trinity Mediation Program

Peer Leaders train for one and a half days, with three lunch time coaching sessions throughout the year in a mediation program designed specifically for high schools. Besides a problem solving approach, Peer Mediators are trained to intervene in hallway confrontations, and in Transformative Mediation whereby the disputants are led through empowerment and recognition experiences that maximize the potential for disputants’ personal growth.

Trinity Elementary and Middle School Program

A team of senior students train in Peer Leadership techniques to address issues such as bullying, relational aggression, and respect in the school community throughout the school year. The number of workshops is determined by each school.

Trinity Long Term Support Program

A social emotional development and anger management program for expelled students. Delivered by Child and Youth Workers. Connected to the Alternative to Suspension Program.

Trinity Alternative to Suspension Program

Designed to develop the student’s self awareness and resilience, participating students address their own social emotional needs and how to balance them with their academic challenges.

Trinity Leadership for Life

Peer Leadership training in facilitation, making presentation, mentoring, and building teams, promoting social development and health promotion, how to advocate and organize public meetings. Students’ training enables them to assess the school community’s assets and resources and undertake addressing the community’s needs.
A practical hands on experience on balancing one’s social emotional and ethical development with academic achievement and skills acquisition to produce proactive meaningful engagement in leading / making one’s life and engaging with others.
The program produces leaders today for tomorrow’s world
Leadership for Life.