Life Skills with Dwayne Peace

The Dare to Care program provides a comprehensive approach to dealing with bullying and challenges within school communities. It helps create an environment where all students understand that positive and negative consequences are attached to the choices they make each day and creates a safe school environment for students to learn in. This feeling of safety not only takes away the fear and power imbalance that exists in schools, it creates a culture in which students are recognized for their caring behaviours, compassion, and empathy.

The Dare to Care program involves students, teachers, and the community in an effort to eliminate bullying from their schools and create an awareness of respect amongst students, teachers and community members. An experienced school consultant, Dwayne Peace, provides professional experience at professional development workshops, parent information nights, school assemblies and classroom presentations.

Experience has shown that the Life Skills and Bully Proofing Your School program helps to reduce bullying behaviour, increases acceptance and caring behaviour, and creates a climate of safety and respect within the school community.

Scope of the Problem

Facts about Life’s Choices:

Children under age 12 may not have a good understanding of what is reality and what is not (what programs and video games are today’s children viewing).

In Canada, an episode of bullying occurs every 7.5 minutes on the playground, and every 20 minutes in the classroom.

Health Risks: The effects of Marijuana can last from 24 – 48 hours and one Marijuana joint has the same harmful health effects as smoking a pack of cigarettes. Ages 12–17 years – 750,000 Canadians have used in the past month, 225,000 use daily (2003).

Students who begin drinking before age 15 are four times more likely to develop alcoholism than those who begin at age 21. An Impaired Driving Conviction results in insurance rates tripling over the next five years.

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for Canadians between the ages of 10 and 24.

Almost 48,000 Canadians died from tobacco use in 1998 (most recent year for stats). Smoking amongst female students is increasing (2003).

Adults who were bullied as children are more likely to suffer from depression in adulthood.

Life Skills Facilitator
Dwayne Peace