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Sources of Strength

On September 20, 2016, more than fifty Paly students and ten adults went through a training to become Sources of Strength (www.sourcesofstrength.org) peer leaders on our campus this year. This is Paly’s 2nd year of involvement with the Sources of Strength program.

The intent of this program is to train positive peer leaders to be change agents and connectors to help: spreading messages and promoting thinking and discussion throughout the social networks at Paly about the various sources of hope, help, and strength available to all of us. While the downstream outcome of this program is the prevention of suicide in our community, the upstream outcome is a culture of increased awareness, compassion, and support for all students facing the daily struggles of school and life.

The following is the mission statement that our peer leaders and adult advisors live by:

Our mission is to spread Hope, Help, and Strength into every corner of our community.

Our mission is to help students and staff turn to their strengths and their supports that are all around. We are Connectors to Help and Strength.

Our mission recognizes that our voice has great power and we use it to BREAK the SILENCE when someone is struggling, and to connect them to the help they need and deserve.

We Spread Hope by focusing on stories of strength, rather than on stories of trauma. We know our most powerful impact comes from our personal actions, conversations, and messages that use our music, our art, our writing, our activities, our social media, our culture, and our voice. This gives life to our efforts.

We are a group of diverse students and adults from many different corners and cultures of our school and community. We believe that life has ups and downs, that all of us will go through good times and tough times. Our mission is to ensure that during the rough times no one gets so overwhelmed or hopeless that they want to give up.

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