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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, July 31, 2015 | 8 Garth Webb students launch `Find Kind' anti-bullying program to girls about bullying. Chan and Ostapovych showed the 2011 Oakville Beaver Staff documentary at their Grade 8 event at their school, Captain R Wilson, but decided not to Catherine Ostapovych never forgot what it was show it at their high school event, choosing like to get bullied in Grade 3. instead to have more group discussions. So, she jumped at the chance to be part of Guest speakers Jennifer Botterill, a threean anti-bullying campaign when her friend time Gold medallist with Team Canada, and Allison Chan asked her to join her for an Jacqueline Antonetti-Moreno, a motivational inspiring project in Grade 8. speaker and life coach, provided insight to the "I was nine, very little and not very confident girls, who attended the event from Captain R. and I was pretty much a slave to another bigger Wilson, Forest Trail, Palermo, Emily Carr and girl in my class," Ostapovych said. "I'd have to West Oak public schools. do whatever she told me to do. I'd have to eat Chan said they waited until they were seniors lunch with her and be her friend and I didn't before starting their new campaign. have any other friends because of that. "We wanted to take on a bigger leadership "There were also threats. If I didn't do what opportunity once we got into Grade 11," Chan I was told, I was going to get stabbed with a said. "We really thought girls in Grade(s) 7 and knife. It scared me. It kept eating at me." 8 would benefit from the concept. Three years later, the teens, now aged 17, are Garth Webb students Allison Chan, left, and Catherine Ostapovych say every Grade 9 student should feel welcome "We separated the girls so they were sitting co-founders of the Find Kind project they hope when they enter high school next fall. The Grade 11 students are co-founders of the `Find Kind' program. and talking about bullying with new faces. We will soon spread not only to every school in | photo by Graham Paine ­ Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog) pushed them out of their comfort zone. In the Halton, but perhaps one day become a national elementary schools earlier this spring asking Garth Webb May 6. end, they felt a lot more comfortable with each campaign. "That would be amazing," Ostapovych said. them to select 15 girls, who they thought "We wanted to help ease their concerns about other," she continued. "The idea is to spread kindness around our The Grade 11 students from Garth Webb would benefit from a conference on bullying. transitioning from Grade 8 to high school and The result -- more than 75 girls aged 12- help them realize the affects that bullying has on school and be kind every day and show the Secondary School in Oakville emailed the principals of the high school's five feeder 14 from Grades 7 and 8 attended the event at victims," said Chan, who came up with the idea effects that girl-on-girl bullying can have. We want to create a kind atmosphere in our school after attending an RBC event. for the girls in Grades 7 and 8 when they get Her mother works for RBC. At the event, Get Back To Pain-Free Living at ... she saw the internationally-recognized here." 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