The Indianola High School has instituted a program to help acclimate and give advice to younger students in a new environment as they transition to high school, the Mentors in Violence Prevention or MVP program. Senior Liam Kelso tells KNIA News the program has given him confidence, and hopefully that passes on to the younger students.

“It’s easy to talk in front of different audiences now that we’ve been able to talk to kids that are three or four years younger than us. And you can implement this into your actual life, if you are talking to someone and they have a problem, and you’ve done a lesson about it, you can talk to them about how to get out of it.”

Mentors in Violence Prevention also helps protect younger students from bullying, not only physical but with cyber-bullying as well.