Bradley Battles Bullying

A group of students at Bradley are taking on bullies. Students Ready to Make Change, or STRETCH, has already reached hundreds of Central Illinois classrooms with its anti-bullying message. 

STRETCH members develop and give age-appropriate presentations at area schools. The 45-minute lessons show bullying’s harmful consequences through short videos, role-play, games, music group discussion and personal stories. By the end of April, STRETCH members will have performed for more than 2,000 K-12 graders.

Coordinators say the program works, because although children may hear similar messages from authority figures at school, they don’t often have the chance to hear those messages from role models closer to their age.

From April 28th - May 1st, four members of STRETCH will be traveling to the Chicago area and Los Angeles to present to hundreds of students  This is the first time STRETCH will be traveling to schools outside the Peoria area to spread its message of anti-bullying and kindness since it was founded in spring 2014.