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SUPERB CURRICULUM

SUPERB's 6-8 week Anti-Bullying CURRICULUM is the main component of the program and is offered to the elementary and middle school population.

In order to connect with the social and cultural issues that a particular school or youth organization is experiencing, SUPERB interviews the administration of the site and observes how bullying is manifested in that particular setting before groups begin. Based on the acquired information, SUPERB and the administration discuss which one of the three curriculums is the best "fit" for their students. Though each curriculum slightly varies from the next, they all promote discussion topics and activities that open the eyes of children and adolescents to the bullying crisis and aims to:

• Detect, assess and resolve bullying,
• Teach social responsibility,
• Teach bullying intervention skills,
• Teach consequences of bullying,
• D.E.F.E.N.D., (See below)
• Increase youth's appreciation for cultural differences and similarities,
• Increase focus to future career choices,
• Decrease social exclusion based on economic status, ethnic background, appearances, or talents,
Increase social skills through improving,
• Increase positive communication, teamwork, and peer cooperation,
• Increase the students’ ability to build and maintain self-esteem without needing to put down other,
• Increase the students’ knowledge on how to reduce stress within themselves.

SUPERB GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING

In addition to the anti-bullying curriculum, SUPERB offers students the option to participate in groups and/or individual therapy focusing on:

• Anger management,
• Anti-bullying,
• D.E.F.E.N.D., (See below)
• Crisis assessment and resolution,
• Grief counseling,
• Academic skills counseling,
• Coping with divorce,
• Social skills counseling.

SUPERB PARENT TRAININGS

In addition to working with students, SUPERB promotes and teaches open communication between parents/guardians and their children through a training that includes:

• The definition of bullying
• Skills to enhance positive communication as a family unit,
• Bullying statistics,
• Bullying resolution resources,
• Interactive activities,
• The purpose of the SUPERB curriculum,
• Signs that children/adolescents are being bullied,
• Detection, assessment and resolution skills to address bullying,
• D.E.F.E.N.D., (See below)
• Available resources.

SUPERB TEACHERS/ADMINISTRATORS TRAININGS

To further complete the program, SUPERB offers a 2-day workshop for teachers and administrators that includes:

• The definition of bullying,
• Some basic background history and facts of Bullying,
• Overview of the problem,
• Bullying statistics,
• Potential dangers of bullying,
• Attempted resolutions,
• Some general questions that teachers and administrators may find themselves needing to answer,
• Interactive activities,
• The purpose of the SUPERB curriculum,
• Signs that children/adolescents are being bullied,
• Detection, assessment and resolution skills to address bullying,
• D.E.F.E.N.D., (See below)
• Available resources.
  

D.E.F.E.N.D.

• Distract: If you see someone being verbally bullied, change the subject.
• Empathy: If your relationship with the bully permits it, help him/her understand how the victim could potentially feel.
• Funny: Use humor to distract a verbal bullying incident.
• Express yourself: Tell a friend, a teacher, an administrator, a parent/guardian or even the police (if dangerously threatened) to seek help to resolve a bullying situation. If nothing works, contact SUPERB’s emergency contact phone number (954)254.0250 so that we can take matter into our own hands.
• No!!!: Speak up for yourself and make sure the bully knows you are assertive and will not take his/her abuse.
• Disappear: If you know a fight will occur, do not show up and if it is already occurring, do everything you can to get out of the situation. Then, express yourself so that other victims can be helped.