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Before the pandemic, school safety was a major concern for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. They issued a state-wide challenge. The best proposal received state funding.

“So we created this program and we piloted it in Granville County,” said Gale Wilkins, who received a degree in women’s leadership from N.C. State University and has training in youth advocacy.

Wilkins led the winning effort called Project Arrow, which was first developed as an after-school program in 2018 at Butner-Stem Middle School.

She used evidence-based training to put students in charge of changing attitudes and behaviors.

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Gale Wilkins

Gale McKoy Wilkins is a wife, mom, grandparent, and family life coach. Gale is the founder of Project Arrow, an evidence-based peer-to-peer and leadership program teaching life coaching techniques to middle and high school students.

Gale is passionate about using life coaching and creative solutions to empower families and teens to help themselves and others. Gale is a Life Coach to parents and teens, and she teaches them coaching skills and techniques and trains teens on how to make good decisions, manage emotions, overcome obstacles, and motivate themselves and others to be their best. Gale is a North Carolina native that has worked with youth and families and served the triangle in various leadership positions; she has a graduate certificate in Family Life Coaching and a Master of Arts degree in Women's Leadership from North Carolina State University.