Emotional Resilience and Intelligence:
- Understand the digital pressures and mental health challenges youth face; to help them navigate digital communication.
- Promote responsibility, positive behavior, and healthy relationships.
- Identify emotional intelligence to help recognize and manage reactions to others.
- Challenge decision-making.
- Set goals, rules, and leadership qualities to be demonstrated every day.
- Practice making positive life affecting choices.
Instill Trusting Social skills:
- Promote empathy, active listening, and social awareness to cultivate compassion, trust, and courage.
- Identify emotions, feelings, and basic cooperative skills to provide a base for conflict resolution during/for difficult conversations.
- Empower leadership through leading discussions and community projects.
- Use real-life scenarios and experiences; through building positive relationships and role modeling.
Cognitive Behaviroal Support:
Cognitive Behaviroal Support:
- Celebrate diversity, individuality, and creativity.
- Encourage physical, mental, and emotional well-being through physical activity, nutrition/hydration, and self-care.
- Instill a sense of belonging by reinforcing participation and skill development, as well as skill improvement.
- Honor traditions, as well as promote new ones.
Leadership Mindset:
Cognitive Behaviroal Support:
- Empower risk-taking, self-reflection, and goal-setting strategies that encourages exploration of oneself, as well as helping others.
- Exposure to career paths, innovations, and community engagement.
- Engage through gamification; game based challenges, rewards, and progress tracking.
- Cooperative games with a point system, goal-oriented challenges to promote a healthy environment, and adequate losing techniques.
- Leadership projects; strength based, student led activities.
Promote Guided Independecy:
Promote Guided Independecy:
- Prepare youths for adulthood, independency, and a career path.
- Promote entrepreneur and business opportunities through teamwork, cooperation, and communication.
- Introduce independent routines for sleep, wellness, and health strategies.
- Strengthen a sense of purpose to youths by showcasing leader initiatives, planning, and community involvement tasks or opportunities.
- Connect identity to self-purpose.
- Encourage storytelling and self-reflection.
- Celebrate the journey.
Build Confidence:
Promote Guided Independecy:
- Encourage problem solving, curiosity, adaptability, and making mistakes/failing (that is how we learn).
- Build perseverance, confidence, resilience, and valuing the small wins or gains.
- Develop self-minded goals that eliminate outside influences.
- Instill understanding of money: saving, spending, needs/wants, and adult expenditures.