Project PEACE
PCSS is partnering with the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation and the host universities for spring 2014 Project PEACE trainings at Arcadia University (February 19, 2014), Pennsylvania State University-Berks Campus (March 26, 2014) and University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown (April 8, 2014). These sessions will feature project PEACE. Project PEACE, a partnership of the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General, the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation, is a peer mediation, anti-bullying and youth court training program that enhances in Pennsylvania schools and communities the skills of non-violent conflict resolution and active civic engagement that are necessary for productive citizenship. This public-private partnership introduces dispute resolution techniques first to elementary school students throughout the Commonwealth while promoting Olweus bullying prevention education in the schools. Youth courts, where students serve as jurors, judges and attorneys, handling real-life cases involving their peers, are then introduced as students move into middle school.
There will also be a March 31, 2014 PCSS mini-conference at Millersville.