Services

Bully Prevention Program
The South Fayette Elementary School utilizes an in-depth bully prevention program following the Olweus Bullying Prevention Model. The Olweus Bully Prevention Program is a multilevel, multicomponent school-based program designed to prevent or reduce bullying in elementary, middle, and junior high schools. The program attempts to restructure the existing school environment to reduce opportunities and rewards for bullying. It works to involve all students in the preventative process, and attempts to show students that as a whole they can help to stamp out bullying in their school.

Students are exposed to many different classroom activities and discussions to inform students on how to properly and effectively eliminate and prevent instances of bullying from occurring. Open-ended conversations, videos, games stories, and journals are among the different methods utilized to express to students the importance of this topic.

The program has shown significant reductions in reports of students being bullied and bullying others, and has been awarded recognition as an Effective Substance Abuse and Mental Health Program by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Aside from reductions in bullying incidents the program has also demonstrated significant improvements in attitude towards schoolwork, classroom order and truancy.

Groups
Throughout the course of each school year South Fayette Elementary School offers support groups to help elementary students deal with any number of problems that they may be experiencing. The groups, which are established as needed, are facilitated by the guidance counselor and licensed social worker(s) from different agencies that South Fayette contracts with. The groups are conducted during the school day and range from 6-9 weeks in duration. Previous group topics have included:
• Social Skills and Friendship Groups
• Changing Families Groups