PALs
SAVE THE DATE!
2022-23 New PALS
High School PALS Summer Training
July |
25-262022
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Are you interested in PALS? If you are dedicated, responsible, a good listener, compassionate, have good attendance and want to serve your school and community, you may be a good candidate for PALS. We want a diverse cross-section of peer helpers. Our PALS groups should be from a variety of student groups—it is not a popularity contest and you do not need to have a high GPA (you need to be passing though). An especially important characteristic of a good PAL is that he/she likes kids because a big part of our class is mentoring younger students.
Benefits of being a PALS student
What are the benefits of being a PALS student?
- Feeling of making a difference
- Opportunity for leadership and to grow leadership skills
- Opportunity to enhance communication skills
- Sense of fulfillment and personal growth
- Sense of belonging with a peer group on campus
- improved sense of health and well-being
- Sense of feeling valued and accomplished
- Satisfaction from giving back to the school and community
- Sense of feeling needed
How to become a PALS student
If you decide that you are interested in applying, watch for the application info to come out in the Spring semester. The steps for becoming a PAL are generally:
- Attend a PALS Informational Meeting to learn exactly what PALS is.
- Complete an application (and all the requirements of it, i.e., references, essay, etc.) by the specified deadline.
- If you are selected for an interview, you will be notified of your interview date and time.
- After all the interviews are complete, PALS will be selected and notified.
- At that time, your counselor will be notified to put you into the PALS class for the following year.