Value Up

Value Up is an initiative from the Walk a Mile program to raise the value of a human life in Junior high and high schools. We often say that schools don’t have a drug problem or a bullying problem as much as they have a value problem. If a student is destroying their life with drugs, alcohol, or destructive behavior, then ultimately they have a low value of themselves. Somewhere along the line they have lost sight of what they really are capable of and settled for a life that is less valuable to them and others. When we are presenting in a school and there are students that fit that criteria, we don’t assume they don’t know that behavior is bad for them, we assume they do and don’t care.