About the Program

Challenge Day is a powerful, often life-changing, daylong experiential program that is rooted in the understanding that drugs, alcohol, eating disorders, teasing, bullying, and violence are merely symptoms of a greater problem. The real problem is separation, isolation, loneliness. Through a carefully designed series of highly interactive, energetic, and powerful activities, discussions and processes, Challenge Day explores the ways in which people separate from themselves and others. It provides young people with the opportunity to be totally real and honest, to experience what’s possible, and then to rise up as leaders--all in an atmosphere of fun, love, compassion, acceptance and respect. Challenge Day is a day of healing and transformation for both students and adults. Challenge Day’s goal is to increase personal power and self-esteem, to shift dangerous peer pressure to positive peer support, and to eliminate the acceptability of teasing, violence, and all forms of oppression. Challenge Day inspires youth to be the change they wish to see -- in their lives, in their school, in their community, and in the world.

            (from “Teen Files: Surviving High School” Documentary Presentation Guide)

We need your help to continue to bring this program to ECMS…

.          Are you ready to be the change you wish to see in the world?

.          Notice!

.          Choose!

.          Act!

What ECMS Needs

.          4 day youth program $3000/day ($12,000)

.          2 round trip airline tickets from Oakland or San Francisco (~ $2,000)

.          2 hotel rooms for every night prior to our event (~ $1,250)

.          Rental car (van or SUV) (~ $400)

.          Lunch for 100 Students + 30 Volunteers/day (~ $ 715)

.          Rental of 140 Chairs/day (~ $ 133)

.          Miscellaneous supplies ( ~ $60)

.          Volunteers (need minimum of 25 per day)

.          Total approximate cost $ 19,142