- How do I access the Members Only section? What is my username and password?
The Members Only section is exclusive to our licensed users. If your site is a licensed PeaceBuilders site, you have access to this section of our website. You are prompted to register with your site’s license number and then are able to create a unique user name and password to use the next time you visit.
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- What are the different levels of support you offer?
On-site and remote coaching is available to help you implement PeaceBuilders faithfully and effectively. Our experienced, knowledgeable Support Coaches will work with you to develop a customized plan to build peace at your site and will be available for regularly scheduled consultation as you put your plan into action. Coaching will ensure you achieve the peaceful environment you envision. See the following page for descriptions of each service:
Support Coaching Services.
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- How can I order new materials or incentives?
We are more than happy to assist you with your order over the phone. You can reach us toll-free at 1-877-473-2236. If you’d like to place an order online, you can order electronically by clicking on Program Materials. View our materials, or select Order Form to download an order form; then mail or fax it in with your method of payment.
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- Can I copy PeaceBuilders materials and use the logo on t-shirts or other items?
Currently licensed sites are permitted to use the PeaceBuilders materials within the confines of their site for the purpose of teaching or promoting PeaceBuilders. This permission includes the use of PeaceBuilders reproducible items. You may use PeaceBuilders artwork on posters, banners, signs, bulletin boards, t-shirts, and in lessons. Any alterations of the PeaceBuilders graphics must be approved in advance, click here.
You may not duplicate entire or substantial parts of PeaceBuilders materials unless specifically indicated. You may not give, loan, sell and or trade, any copies of PeaceBuilders materials, even those duplicated under your license, to other sites (even within your own district), to businesses, or any other organization.
We sell youth and adult size t-shirts with the PeaceBuilders logo or pledge for a minimal price and we can customize your shirts with your site’s name for an extra charge.
For a more detailed explanation of your site license click the following link: Site License.
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- How do I get on the monthly e-mail list?
One of the many benefits of being a licensed PeaceBuilders site is receiving our useful, informational monthly newsletter the PeaceRelease. If you are at a current site but are not receiving the PeaceRelease, please send your name, site name, city and state, and your email address to pbmonthly@peacebuilders.com.
If you are not at a currently licensed site but would like news about PeaceBuilders, please send your name and email address to pbnews@peacebuilders.com.
If you have signed up for our newsletter(s) and are not receiving them, it may be flagged as “spam.” Make sure your email provider allows emails from the addresses listed about. In the meantime, you may wish to check your bulk/junk mail folder.
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- How can I raise funds for PeaceBuilders workshops and implementation tools?
PeaceBuilders is the science based and research-validated violence prevention youth program approved for the federally funded Safe and Drug-Free Schools Act. Many of our sites use their Title I or IV funds or write PeaceBuilders into a grant.
Feel free to use the following fund-raising ideas, gathered from sites across the nation, and please email any other ideas you have to us at info@peacebuilders.com.
- Create a PeaceBuilders Mosaic Wall. Children can purchase tiles and paint them. A volunteer can create a design with the painted tiles and affix them to a wall to create a permanent PeaceBuilders mural.
- Hold a car wash, jog-a-thon, bake sale, PeaceBuilders carnival, silent auction, or community garage sale to raise funds.
- Solicit funds from your PTA or charitable organizations in your community (Kiwanis Club, religious organizations, Optimists Club, Rotary Club).
- Sell PeaceBuilders t-shirts or other PeaceBuilders incentives.
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- How do I help others—children/teens, staff, and administration at my site—see the benefits of PeaceBuilders? How do we implement when some refuse to participate?
Bringing in a new program is always challenging and some staff members may not realize the importance of their participation. This starts with your site administration’s expectations of new programs. When faced with refusal to follow the implementation of the program, acknowledge the individual’s frustration, offer help, and follow the six Principles of PeaceBuilders. Use PraiseNotes™ and verbally praise the person for his/her hard work. If a staff member undermines the program in front of others, especially children or teens, discuss the importance of a positive attitude and strongly suggest the person speaks of the program in a positive manner or not at all.
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- How does a site choose a leadership team?
Choosing a leadership team is very important, and it is recommended that the team change from year to year so everyone has a chance to lead with creative ideas. It is also very important for all staff members to remember that all adults at the site are responsible for implementing, not just the leadership team. We recommend selecting people who inspire, can easily coach others, and are natural leaders. The leadership team can include administration, staff and/or teachers (an adult from each age and needs level: primary, intermediate, teenage, special needs areas) plus parents and youth. The more people who are involved and informed, the better.
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- How do we keep the program going when leadership is uninterested in the program?
If the leadership at your site is unsupportive of the PeaceBuilders program, discuss the positive changes you’ve seen professionally and personally. It may be they’ve never been trained or haven’t had the time to see just how easy it is to implement and how it will save them time in the long run. We strongly suggest creating a leadership team as described above in question #8. Creating the leadership team greatly helps the principal/director so he or she can delegate jobs and responsibilities to others to alleviate any stress.
It is also helpful to network with other sites using the program, and with their administrators and leadership teams. Coming together helps everyone involved with the PeaceBuilding effort.
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- When staff is new to our site, how do we help them implement?
First, stress the importance to new staff that everyone is trained in order to maintain the site’s positive culture shift. PeaceBuilders offers workshops to help with new staff turnover. It is possible to have new staff attend another site’s Essentials Workshop in the area. Second, make sure they have the latest materials for their youth’s age level. Call us toll-free at 1-877-473-2236 to discuss in detail.
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- Where can I find ideas and activities that illustrate the PeaceBuilders Principles?
The PeacePack™ for grades K-5 (available in binder form or on CD-Rom) is filled with great activities to help with implementation. It is divided into sections to help the user find activities quickly for whichever Principle they want to coach. There are comic strips to introduce each Principle, followed by activities. Other sections include: “Science of PeaceBuilding,” “PeaceBuilders During Outside Play,” “The Culture of PeaceBuilders,” and “PeaceBuilders Banish Bullying.”
We also offer a PeacePack for Teens™ (grades 6-12), PeacePack for Young Children™ (pre-K), PeacePack for Beyond School™ (for youth outside the school setting) and Recipes for Peace (for youth of all ages). You can order our curriculum materials online from our Program Materials section.
In addition to hundreds of activities, our program materials include directed lessons, follow-up activities, reproducibles, and notes home that teach each PeaceBuilders Principle.
Visit our Members Only section for complimentary implementation tools available to our licensed users. Licensed users will also receive a monthly e-mail with new information and ideas for building peace at school, at home and in the community.
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- How can I use PeaceBuilders to keep young children from tattling?
Tattling can become a problem if not attended to early on. PeaceBuilders can help by providing behavioral expectations through the common language of the PeaceBuilders Pledge™. Young children need to learn the difference between reporting and tattling. Defining the difference at the beginning of a new school year and reminding young children when they forget can be very helpful. Please see the PeacePack for Young Children for an activity called “PeaceEar™” to help reduce tattling. See the Members Only section for a free reproducible.
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