Miramonte High School Parents' Club

What is Challenge Day?

• Challenge Day is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that provides powerful one-day programs as a service to middle and high schools with students grade 7-12 and other organizations and companies.
•  The goal of the Challenge Day program is to build community within and outside of the school while also helping students to handle the pressures involved with being a teenager every day. The program will deal with a wide range of issues such as handling cliques and peer/parent/teacher pressures, self-esteem and leadership, alcohol and drug abuse, bullying and violence.
• Using highly interactive and energetic activities, the Challenge Day Program Leaders guide teens and adult facilitators through a series of experiences designed to increase personal self-esteem, turn peer pressure to positive peer support, and eliminate the acceptance of negative behavior toward each other.
• Challenge Day is a program that has been experienced by over half a million teens and adults.  Since 1987, Challenge Day has inspired hundreds of thousands of youth and adults in 450 cities, 39 U.S. states, 5 provinces of Canada, Japan, Germany, and Australia.

What does the program look like?

• The Challenge Day program is approximately 6 ¨ö hours long and takes place on campus during a school day.  It is designed for a maximum of 100 students per day.
• The program requires a ratio of one adult facilitator for every 4 students attending each day.  Facilitators will include faculty/staff, counselors, local community leaders and selected parents.
• Challenge Day Program Leaders begin the morning by helping all participants become comfortable with each other through music, interactive games and exercises. Leaders also spend a portion of the morning talking about the healthy expression of emotions, and the potential negative effects of keeping feelings inside.
• During the afternoon, participants begin to address some common issues seen at most schools including cliques, gossip, rumors, negative judgments, teasing, harassment, isolation, stereotypes, intolerance, racism, sexism, bullying, violence, homophobia, hopelessness, apathy, and pressures to create an image, achieve or live up to the expectations of others.