POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Students from Siena College make the trip to Poughkeepsie High School to talk about bringing an end to cyberbullying.

The program uses peer-to-peer conversations to teach students to not be bystanders to cyberbullying, but to be "upstanders," calling out their peers who partake in cyberbullying.

"We would step in and stop it from happening either by telling the person who's doing cyber bullying that it's not OK, or encouraging the person who's being bullied to stand up or intervening ourselves, putting ourselves in the middle and saying this is not OK," said Rosmerayah Garcia, Poughkeepsie High School senior.

A 2016 survey from the Siena Research Institute and the Upstander Program shows that one in four students in Upstate New York have been victim to cyberbullying.  

Upstander Ambassador's from the College worked with students at Poughkeepsie High School to train them to be more aware of cyberbullying situations in their own community.

"The only way that there's going to be a change is if there's a shift in the culture," said Emily Murphy, Siena College Student. "You have to stop contributing, you have to stop playing into it and you have to support your peers at the end of the day."

After working with the high school students, there was an assembly to share the program's message with the entire school.

Organizers say Poughkeepsie High School is the first in the Hudson Valley to participate in the anti-bullying program, which has already been in Schools elsewhere in the state.