PEER-TO-PEER MENTAL HEALTH AMBASSADOR CERTIFICATION
The Peer-To-Peer Mental Health Ambassador Program is an 8-week intensive program led by Licensed Clinical Social Workers. The program allows students to gain in-depth insight into fundamental mental health issues, coping skills, and resources for accessing help. Students are also able to earn a certificate for completion. The program aims to reduce and eliminate the number of youth receiving crisis intervention and/or emergency care through improved emotional stability. The aim is to ensure that schools have mutual youth mentors who are relatable, consistent, and thorough in their approaches to long-term sustainability.
FLIP 101: HOW TO START YOUR OWN T-SHIRT BRAND
Flip 101: How To Start Your Own T-Shirt Brand is an 8-week workshop developed to teach teens the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. This program is led by Tiffany Williams, the creator, and owner of Bellargo Piargo, a well-respected streetwear brand worn by many celebrities. She teaches students how to build their t-shirt brand, just like she did with limited resources. The program helps participants to develop viable business skills, tap into their potential, uplift their mindset, and increase self-esteem. By the end of the program, students devise a business plan and a logo for their brand and company. .
ESTEEM UP: BUSINESS OF BEAUTY PROGRAM
The Esteem Up Business of Beauty Program is a 12-session interactive workshop series for students to discover the power of beauty from the inside out. Students explore and learn how to engage in the billion-dollar beauty industry actively. The workshop infuses business education, cosmetology, and life skills with emotional learning. Students learn business fundamentals while developing vital cosmetology skills such as makeup, hair braiding, wig making, and eyelash extension application. Students are taught the virtue of character development, coping skills, and how to utilize their voice through social media platforms positively. .
SOCIAL JUSTICE IN ACTION
The Social Justice In Action: Community Content Creation Program is a 12-session class where students learn the fundamentals of social justice and how to create social campaigns through media around issues that concern them. The class is interactive, and the fundamentals of content and film production are taught through project—based learning. Students create a social campaign and step-by-step are guided to implement the campaign. The students' final projects are demonstrated through the visual arts and launched throughout the country, making others aware of their accomplishments. By the end of the program, students gain confidence in the power of their voice with an inner knowing that they can create the change they want to see in the world..
TEEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ARTS/EVENT PLANNING BUSINESS
The Teen Entrepreneurship Arts/Event Planning program is a 10-week interactive course where students learn the fundamentals of entrepreneurship while exploring business through the arts. Utilizing project-based learning, students are taught how to monetize their talents in the arts through business. As students create, they are instructed step-by-step on how to start viable businesses utilizing their skills and talents. Additionally, students are taught the fundamentals of event planning and how to use this skill to make money now. This workshop is infused with a powerful financial literacy curriculum that gives students insight into saving, budgeting, and growing their money.
GROOM: YOUNG KINGS BARBERING PROGRAM
GROOM: Young Kings Barbering Program is an 8-week workshop that teaches teens the basics of barbering, hygiene, and skin care while providing viable life skills and social-emotional learning. A Master Barber teaches students the fundamental of male grooming and shares real-life experiences. The workshop focuses on skincare, grooming, haircare product selection, and techniques for waves, locs, braids, and natural coils. Students learn the history of barbering, explore the barbering industry, learn personal hygiene tips, understand sanitizing and disinfecting, become familiar with common facial infections, practice maintenance of tools, and learn basic hair-cutting skills.
MONEY TALKS FINANCIAL LITERACY PROGRAM
Money Talks Financial Literacy Program is an 8-week interactive workshop that teaches students the fundamentals of financial literacy. This program is a highly engaging workshop for students to learn the power of saving and how to make their money make more money for them. This program aims to empower students with the knowledge to create intergenerational wealth. The workshop educates on bank accounts, credit, stocks and bonds, entrepreneurship, and how to save, grow and invest money. These vital skills empower students to take charge of their lives and become their greatest selves. Students actively engage in class projects through project-based learning to increase their enthusiasm and financial knowledge, including setting up their own investment accounts. By the end of the program, students develop a savings system and plan to save and grow money. The plan can be shared with family and friends to help break the bonds of poverty and increase wealth in their communities.
SOCIAL JUSTICE IN ACTION LAW ACADEMY
Social Justice In Action: Law Academy Is an 8-week program that teaches students the fundamentals of law by combating societal issues that concern them. Attorney Angelo Pinto leads this course. He teaches students how law and social justice are interconnected. Participants are guided through project-based learning, tackling current civil rights issues in the classroom. Participants create innovative solutions to address societal ills through education, lived experiences, and information. Participants explore monumental cases and learn historical facts and theories that have helped shape our world and are empowered to take action and make their own mark in history. Utilizing their practical experience and knowledge derived from this course, students learn how to gain a seat at the table. By infusing civic engagement education where students interact directly with elected officials, they are taught how they, too, can bring resolve to the current crises that plague communities they call home. With newfound confidence and many resources, students are equipped to take action and lead in the fight for justice!
SEL/ENDURANCE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Social Emotional Learning (SEL)/Endurance Leadership Program is based on author Dr. Jamila T. Davis's best-selling book Built to Outlast the Storm: The 12 Points to Turning a Setback Into a Major Comeback. This curriculum was created to teach participants how to strategically overcome obstacles by shifting their mindsets and intentionally looking for growth opportunities, even amid adversity. Through interactive dialogue and exercises, Dr. Davis shares her lived experience creating a connection between the theories and practical application of the methods outlined in her book. This helps students tap into their gifts and talents, learn how to change their perspectives and make the best use of time. Through her 12-point plan, participants learn powerful coping skills, mindfulness activities, affirmations and meditation techniques, and how to develop a relationship with their higher power to obtain faith and strength during difficult times.
BE THE CHANGEMAKERS TEEN CONFERENCE
Be the Changemakers Teen Conference is a high-spirited event for teens at colleges throughout the country. This conference focuses on social entrepreneurship, inspiring teens to discover their purpose and tap into their gifts and talents to create change. Led by celebrity activist Dr. Jamila T. Davis of Seton Hall University and Attorney Angelo Pinto of Yale University, students are engaged through these two freedom fighters' real-life experiences. This conference focuses on social entrepreneurship, highlighting teens doing incredible work worldwide. Through interactive dialogue, videos, and panel discussions, participants are prompted to tap into their inner power through student voices and create or be a part of innovative initiatives and businesses that can impact social change in their communities. This powerful session continues in the classroom at students' home school. Students are given a guide that will help them learn how to discover their resources and how to create and launch an effective social campaign that can change the world. Staff are guided to help students successfully complete the course material. Selected students will return to a college forum to present their initiatives, having a chance to win a large cash prize to invest in their dream project.