Summer Outreaches to the Homeless and Bully Prevention Webinar
Summer Outreaches – This coming week reach out to the Homeless We hope you have been enjoying the summer outreaches as a family or group. For this week, notice the increasing amount of homeless people as the economy has taken a downturn. This week how about serving a meal at a homeless shelter? Or are […]
Continue readingEquipping Students to Prevent Bullying
To prevent bullying the B.I.O.N.I.C. Team started the “Prevent Bullying by Just Saying H.I.” program to empower students to change the climate of their school to a more caring climate. “H” stands for Help – get help from an adult in the school if they see bullying so they can stop it or intervene. If […]
Continue readingB.I.O.N.I.C. Teams Stopping Bullying and Making Schools Safer
In the early years of the B.I.O.N.I.C. Team, to prevent kids from falling through the cracks, students reached out to peers who were new, sick, hospitalized, or lost loved ones. In order to truly create a caring climate in a school though, B.I.O.N.I.C. Founder Sandy Austin knew they needed to address bullying. In the conferences […]
Continue readingB.I.O.N.I.C. Teams Send Caring Across State Lines
Mariah’s family moved to another state right before her 12th-grade year. Most seniors in that situation have great difficulty mixing into the culture of a new school because of regrets of leaving their friends behind and all that was familiar to them. Often if the student is an athlete, an actor, or a musician, they have […]
Continue readingReality of What’s Happening in the Schools
This fall staff and students from 51 schools across Colorado attended eight B.I.O.N.I.C. Team Conferences exploring what B.I.O.N.I.C. could look like in their schools to empower students to reach out to their peers facing tough times. At the conferences we started off with each in attendance listing two things they are seeing in their schools […]
Continue readingB.I.O.N.I.C. Team Conferences are Coming!
It’s a new school year! The students walking through your halls, are they new? Do they feel welcomed? When a student is sick, how do they get help in making up work? If they are bullied, who will help? If they lose a loved one, will they get support? These are some of the toughest […]
Continue readingB.I.O.N.I.C. School Tragedy Teams
Almost every week we hear of school tragedies in the news, and it rips our hearts out to hear of those suicides, school shootings, or other tragedies. When young people hear of those tragedies, they want to reach out to those schools/communities to let them know they care. B.I.O.N.I.C. Teams send posters (about 30-feet long) […]
Continue readingB.I.O.N.I.C. Loss Teams
The B.I.O.N.I.C. Team consists of several individual Teams to help students going through challenging times. If students aren’t acknowledged or reached out to during these times, we have found that they can feel isolated or may not have meaningful ways of dealing with the stress of these times. When students or staff lose a loved […]
Continue readingB.I.O.N.I.C. Hospitalization Teams
In this series of all the B.I.O.N.I.C. Team outreaches, the Hospitalization Team gets some of the highest words of praise! For example, “You’re the only ones from school who came to visit me!” The hospital raises mixed emotions for B.I.O.N.I.C. students too. It is powerful to see B.I.O.N.I.C. students grow to feel comfortable visiting peers […]
Continue readingB.I.O.N.I.C. Extended Illness Teams
The B.I.O.N.I.C. Team reaches out to students facing challenging times. In this post, the individual Team we are highlighting is the Extended Illness Team – helping sick students. One of the most stressful things about missing school for being sick is making up the work. Learning the missed material and completing the homework before you […]
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