Summer Outreaches to Teach Kids Valuable Life Lessons
As summer opens up to new activities and experiences, how about teaching the kids in your realm of influence valuable life lessons in learning how to make this world a better place? Summer Outreach Activities It can take a lot of work and creativity to fill up the long summer days with your kids. How […]
Continue readingSummer 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 readingThe Generation to Stop Bullying Once and for All?
Through the years when we have met with students who were bullied, they said that the most difficult thing was not what happened between them and the bully (unless they were hurt badly), but the toughest thing was seeing all those people standing around and watching. One student said, “Did they think I’m weak or […]
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 readingB.I.O.N.I.C. Alumni Continuing to Impact the World
With tears streaming down her face, she said, ““Thank you for caring about more than the bottom line. We walked out of the offices of two accountants in the last two days because they shamed us.” B.I.O.N.I.C. Teams not only impact those they reach out to, but they impact the B.I.O.N.I.C. students too. They learn […]
Continue readingB.I.O.N.I.C. Alum Impacting Her College Campus
What is the lasting impact of B.I.O.N.I.C. outreaches on B.I.O.N.I.C. students’ lives? Do they continue to use the skills they learned on the B.I.O.N.I.C. Team for the rest of their lives? One of the greatest ways that B.I.O.N.I.C. impacts our students is that they learn how to deal with tragedy! Our training for B.I.O.N.I.C. students […]
Continue readingB.I.O.N.I.C. Team for a District’s Staff
As schools are seeing the impact of their B.I.O.N.I.C. Teams reaching struggling kids who are new, sick, hospitalized, bullied, or losing loved ones, the impact can be dramatic in creating a more caring climate in the schools. Kids are getting their eyes off their cell phones and noticing students in the halls or in their […]
Continue readingB.I.O.N.I.C. Kids Showing Love to the Elderly
Can a hard bitter life be melted by love from kids? It happened to Rose, and kids’ lives will never be the same! When Sandy Austin was asked if the Sunrise Living Center could start a B.I.O.N.I.C. Team, she was excited to hear what Ronda Knuth’s vision was for her elderly residents at the center. […]
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