Creating a better, safer world for all, one high school community at a time.
Safe and Respectful Learning Communities
Soteria Solutions works with community partners, high school administrators, staff, teachers, and students throughout the United States to create and maintain safe and respectful learning communities void of incivility, harassment, and violence including sexual violence and discrimination.
Sustainable Change through Customized Solutions
Our proven approaches are based on in-depth research offering the most effective strategies for students to prevent and react to undesirable situations and scenarios at school and throughout the community. Learn more.
Why Soteria Solutions for Your High School?
- Solutions customized to leverage your high school’s strengths, culture and values.
- A collaborative, flexible approach as we partner with you as a catalyst to ignite lasting change.
- Bringing in the Bystander® is based on leading research on bystander intervention.
- Bringing in the Bystander was evaluated and demonstrated to be an effective prevention program, satisfying many grant requirements.
- Sustainable change is achieved by improving organizational frameworks (e.g., goals, core values, reporting mechanisms, cultural norms) essential to making strategic shifts.
- The program, adapted for high schools, is based on the College Prevention Program that is nationally recognized by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Culture of Respect, and The White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault as a theory-driven and evidence-based sexual violence prevention program.
- Skilled trainers with many years of sexual violence prevention experience lead these trainings. The High School Prevention Program was developed by two of our trainers. Learn more about Caroline Leyva and Bobby Eckstein.
Our Solutions for High Schools
Bringing in the Bystander® High School Prevention Program (BITB)
An evidence-based prevention program based on bystander intervention research. This innovative, proven program applies a community of responsibility model teaching bystanders how to intervene safely and effectively.
Bystander Intervention Social Media Kit
Used in conjunction with Bringing in the Bystander or Know Your Power, the Bystander Intervention Social Media Kit reinforces the important role of a bystander in a high school community. With dozens of images, files and videos for social media channels including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, the Social Media Kit increases awareness and keeps important bystander messages top of mind for the high school community.
Know Your Power® Marketing Campaigns
A set of bystander intervention marketing campaigns developed based on bystander intervention research and focus groups, that effectively raise awareness and willingness to safely intervene.
Evaluation and Consultation
Soteria Solutions can provide your school and community partners with technical assistance focused on the development, implementation, and evaluation of prevention tools and frameworks, compliance strategies, survivor services, research measures and strategic planning. All of which can help you more effectively address incivility, harassment, violence and discrimination in your high school community. For example:
- Receive technical assistance grounded in research, theory and evidence-based evaluation.
- Design strategies to create and sustain violence-free learning, working and living environments.
SWAG to Increase Awareness
Bringing in the Bystander is a very strong curriculum - it is youth-centered and visually appealing without being cheesy, and provides great support for facilitators through scripts, training, and helpful hints. It also provides multiple opportunities in each module to make the curriculum relevant and tailored to a more specific audience or communities. The content is comprehensive and in-depth, but also manageable enough that sudents would not feel overwhelmed by the content or need much prior knowledge to comprehend the lessons.
Superintendent of Public Instruction, Washington State
Case Studies
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