"Watch Me Make A Difference" Highlighting student/mentor Chayenne D. Rodriguez

Today's "Watch Me Make A Difference" post is highlighting student/ mentor Chayenne D. Rodriguez, she's making a huge difference in her community by working on building a program called "Bully Me - talk to someone on your side"

Here's her story:

To whom this may concern,

My name is Chayenne Rodriguez and I am a student at Rutgers University. I have just recently (around July 2010) started working on a program entitled "Bully Me" (with the tag like of "talk to someone on your side") for small classroom settings because I want children to know that we see what they are going through and we want to address it.

"Bully Me" is basically my way of impacting the bullying crisis that is impacting today's youth. It is a 30min presentation that focuses on the causes and effects of bullying, outside influences, and dealing with bullies. I make sure to stress that no one is a criminal and everyone in the situation is a victim (even the bully) because something is causing all of the negative energy to being given off into the atmosphere. The presentation caters toward kids in 6th-8th grade for the moment because I think that that is the main group that should be caught right before then enter high school and are let loose into that jungle. Hopefully, my youth will also add to the impact of the presentation because I know that when an adult talks about this subject it goes through one ear and out of the other, but with me doing the talking I think that the kids will see their big sister giving them advice. Soon I hope to be able to expand and make my program more versatile, but for now I just want to tackle this age group.

"Bully Me" was just approved to have its first classroom presentation for observation and then (if all goes well) it will be taken full scale in my district of residence.

Thank you advance for the recognition,

Chayenne Rodriguez

Chayenne's "Bully Me"logo

How awesome is this! Thank you so much Chayenne for sending in your story on how you are making a difference! I congratulate you on being a leader.

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