Rachel's Challenge:

Making schools safer, more connected places where bullying and violence are replaced with kindness and respect; and where learning and teaching are awakened to their fullest.

Each week Story Intermediate students do a kindness act at school

Each month Story Intermediate students engage in a kindness act for someone or an organization in the community.

"I HAVE THIS THEORY THAT IF ONE PERSON CAN GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO SHOW COMPASSION, THEN IT WILL START A CHAIN REACTION OF THE SAME. PEOPLE WILL NEVER KNOW HOW FAR A LITTLE KINDNESS CAN GO."

Today, Rachel's Challenge exists to inspire and equip students to create a permanent positive change not only in themselves, but in their schools, and communities. The objectives of these programs are all the same; to continue Rachel's legacy of kindness and compassion and to:

Help schools and businesses become safer, more connected places to live and learn.
Stimulate real culture change by actively involving the entire community in the process.
Change lives by providing culturally relevant social/emotional training.
Increase achievement and ensure results by engaging the participants’ heart, head and hands in a continuing improvement process.

Websites:

https://www.stopbullying.gov/

https://www.pacerteensagainstbullying.org/