We are in the heart of Lancaster County, home of the Amish and plain sects. We have had the program for approximately 4 years with about 10 - 12 mediators in each school. We presently have 34 peer mediators and this is the program's second year running. I have a Web page in the making. It will be available soon.
Students can only be in the program for three semesters.
There are thirteen trained students second semester now, but there were seventeen first semester. The teachers seem to like the program and have learned more about Peer Mediation by having their classes come in to our Peer Mediation room and having Mediators explain what the program is and where they can reach us in case they ever need a mediation. We are presently involed in creating a video to help out Mediators for next years program. Our school has 16 trained mediators who work with 460 students, grades preschool-fifth. Students are on duty on a rotating basis and serve by walking the halls and working with students who have referred themselves for mediation.