For Immediate Release
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CONTACT: Christi Powers
State Bar of Wisconsin
(608) 250-6025 |
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Elementary Schools Join PEACE Program to Reduce Youth Violence
MADISON, August 6, 2001 - Back to school for 16
elementary schools statewide will include learning peer mediation
techniques. For the sixth consecutive year, the State Bar of Wisconsin
and the Department of Justice have teamed up to reduce violence in
Wisconsin elementary school by teaching children communication and
problem solving skills as part of the PEACE (Peers in Education
Addressing Conflict Effectively) program.
This year, more than 80 teachers, school counselors, principals and
parents from 15 elementary schools will be participating in the
intensive two-day PEACE training on August 8-9 in Madison. Participants
will learn about peer mediation and how to instruct students in it. The
PEACE program is just one way Wisconsin lawyers provide legal solutions
and service to the public.
PEACE training will be kicked off with a luncheon at the American
Family Complex, 6000 American Parkway, at noon on Wednesday, August 8th.
Featured speakers include Attorney General Jim Doyle, Superintendent of
Public Instruction Elizabeth Burmaster and Attorney Michelle Behnke -
chair of the State Bar's Board of Governors. Several Wisconsin Supreme
Court justices and state legislators will also be in attendance.
Nearly 25,000 students in approximately 50 Wisconsin elementary
schools currently participate in the PEACE program. For more information
on PEACE or other law-related education programs, contact Dee Runaas at
(608) 250-6191, or visit the State Bar's Web site - www.legalexplorer.com/education
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