PATH / Peer Helpers
Faculty Advisor: Jill Blackwelder
I. Peer Helpers- students trained intensively in peer mediation.
Peer mediation, buddy system for new students, and these students provide antidrug and antiviolence programs to feeder schools
II. Peer Athlete Team Helpers (PATH)
Upper classman athletes are placed one on one with freshman-at-risk-athletes as a mentor. These mentors are provided with intense training and ongoing monitoring. Activities are arranged monthly. These students also provide antidrug and antiviolence programs to feeder schools. This team is also known as the D.R.E.A.M. Team (Daring to Role model Excellents as Athlete Mentors)
Club Projects
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Path/Peer present the 4th annual Haunted School
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Dream Team spent the afternoon with their pen pal's at Troutman Middle School. 5/16/08 |
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PATH/Peer perform a skit for the 2007 Anti-drug campaign |
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PATH/Peer group shown making a donation to the family of an Alexander Central student who was injured in a 4-wheeler accident. |
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Dream Team (Daring to role model as athletic mentors) performs skits for Troutman Middle school students. 5/16/2008 |
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Dream Team has a field day with their pen pals at TMS. |
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PEER/Path presents TATU (Teens against tobacco use) |
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SAP Core team attend a retreat in West Jefferson, NC. |
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SIHS SAP Peer Athlete Team Helpers (PATH) went to the Iredell County Ropes Course for all day paired activities. IN the PATH program upperclassman athletes work one on one all year long with a freshman athlete in their same sport. |
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Each year the Path/Peer sponsor a Haunted School to raise money.
Mrs. Blackwelder and members of the SIHS PATH (Peer Athletic Team
Helpers) and DREAMTEAM (Daring to Role Model Excellence as Athletic
Mentors) recently received the NC High School Athletic Association
Student Support Services State Award for 2007-08. These student groups
receive training and work to reduce school violence and the use of
alcohol and drugs at South Iredell. They have traveled throughout North
Carolina presenting their message of No Violence and Anti-Drug and
Alcohol at state conventions and numerous other schools.
The main objective of the PATH and DREAMTEAM members is to empower
students to be positive role models to their peers. They work through a
number of strategies to achieve this goal which include: Peer
mediations, Freshman athlete mentoring, Lunch buddy program, Random
interventions, They sign no substance use contracts, Teens against
tobacco use programs for third graders, Members Pen Pal with at risk
middle schoolers and host an end of year field day for them. These
young people are doing great things for their fellow students at South
Iredell and we congratulate them and wish them continued success.
