Powerhouse Community Development educates and engages area youth to provide them with leadership skills and the value of giving back to their communities
Healthy Choices - Life Skills & Mentorship Program
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Healthy Choices is an interactive, school-based program that provides life skills, positive messaging, trauma support care and mentorship. The school-based component will take place during school period from the months of September through the end of December and from the months of January through May. Group sessions will be provided during regular school hours. The school will coordinate hours during routine scheduled class hours and offer as an elective health class. The group sessions will consist of two 60 minutes classes a week. One class will provide objective subject matter in a peer setting while the second session will be a processing group to discuss subjective matter. Additionally, the school counselor may setup individual session for scholars at higher need of individual support or participants from in-school/out of school suspension. The in-school program will be facilitated by individuals with lived experiences and have relatability with scholars. Individualized mentorship opportunities will be available to most vulnerable scholar to develop an emotional bond with mentee and provide additional support, guidance, and opportunities to assist scholar in having a successful life an meet personal and educational goal, |
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Healthy Choices is a multifaceted prevention and intervention program that will foster several different evidence-based curriculums that addresses individuality, healthy processing of feelings and emotions, handling anger, making healthy choices, dealing with peer pressure and building friendships. Additionally, these trainings will target youth from high-crime and low socioeconomic communities that will teach kids’ life skills to engage, educate, equip and empower youth experiencing low self-esteem, lack of parental guidance and father absence. The program will reduce anti-social attitudes and rebellious behavior, increase anti-drug-use attitudes and intentions, as well as, reduce early substance use/experimentation and increase coping and social skills.
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The Youth Connection curriculum is a unique, multi-cultural, evidence-based preventive intervention for selective and indicated populations. Youth will meet in school, in small group settings and are taught a set of essential life skills to help them learn how to: cope with difficult family situations, resist negative peer pressure, respect others, set and achieve goals, make healthy choices, and refuse alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
Tackling the Life Skills (University of Missouri) – Habilitation Empowerment Accountability Therapy (H.E.A.T.) and Youth Connections curriculums facilitation designed to enhance decision making, strengthen family involvement and reduce intimate partner violence
Leadership Development (Family Support Division) – Future Leaders and Parenthood Can Wait curriculums designed to help youth make healthy choices, aide in emotional development and reduce bullying.
Job Readiness – Career exploration, employment preparation and workforce development through resume building, mock interviews, internship, and apprenticeship opportunities.
Financial Literacy- (Junior Achievement USA) (JA) will provide the financial curriculum for both the parenthood and pre-parenthood components. The following key topics will be presented in the curriculum:
- Choices and Self-knowledge
- Education and Career Options
- Budgeting
- Using Credit
- Credit Score
- Financial Risk
- Decision Making
- Career Options
- Assessment/Evaluation
Our program is based upon the 40 Developmental Assets Framework designed by Search Institute. Search Institute has identified 40 positive supports and strengths that young people need to succeed. Half of the assets focus on the relationships and opportunities they need in their families, schools, and communities (external assets). The remaining assets focus on the social-emotional strengths, values, and commitments that are nurtured within young people (internal assets).
We will assess every participating youth to determine the number of developmental assets they possess and create an individualized service plan (ISP) to develop each participant in their specific area of need. In addition, we will build the capacity of our partner agencies in understanding the 40 Developmental Assets Framework and its implementation in their daily work with the participating youth base.
Our services align with the following expected outcomes:
-Develop positive values, social competencies, and positive identities.
-Gain positive parenting/co-parenting skills.
-Identify, manage and appropriately express emotions and behaviors.
-Increase prosocial behaviors.
-Reduce risk for abuse/neglect.
RESOURCES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Just Think Twice: Get the facts on how drugs impact your health, your social life, your family, and your future.
Drug Free World: The Foundation for a Drug-Free World empowers youth with factual information about drugs.
Above the Influence: Helping youth stand up to negative pressures and influences by providing positive resources.
MOSAFE: Experiencing a crisis? Text MOSAFE to 741741 for help and support.
Just Think Twice: Get the facts on how drugs impact your health, your social life, your family, and your future.
Drug Free World: The Foundation for a Drug-Free World empowers youth with factual information about drugs.
Above the Influence: Helping youth stand up to negative pressures and influences by providing positive resources.
MOSAFE: Experiencing a crisis? Text MOSAFE to 741741 for help and support.
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A special thanks to our partners!
A special thanks to our partners!
