Many youth have no idea how to create and sustain a productive, positive life for themselves. The focus of this program is on life, job and everyday survival skills training for youth and adults. In Surviving Life, youth receive a reality crash course in character education, personal relationships, teen parenting, emotion control, budgeting, and how to get and keep a job. Using cognitive behavioral based strategies and approaches, this is an intensive program both in content and duration. It is designed for the older teen.

This program was designed primarily to be used as a support guide for parents and caregivers of youth who complete an MK program or course guide. However, it can also be used with parents individually or as a couple to help resolve some of the most difficult issues we have as parents and give a little support along the tumultuous path to raising a teenager. We also include helpful information for parents of students with chronic attendance and discipline issues.

This program uses cognitive-based strategies to help troubled youth learn to deal with the turbulent emotions and stress that often lead to serious problems for today’s teens. The Emotion Control Program first addresses the powerful emotions that stem from rejection, failure, criticism, frustration, confusion, and disappointment which many times culminate in anger and rage. Stuffing emotionally volatile kids into anger management programs intended for developmentally mature adults in hope that it will make a difference is at best unrealistic and, at worst, downright dangerous. In Emotion Control, anger management techniques are addressed after the emotional issues are effectively dealt with.

This program utilizes cognitive-based strategies to help those teens and adults who do not have serious alcohol or drug problems. This program is intended as an education, intervention and awareness program and is not intended as a therapeutic method. Instead, it is meant to provide guidance and educational insight to teens whose A & D experimentation has created problems in their lives.

This program, using cognitive behavioral based strategies and approaches, guides teens and adults through an educational process to help them with personal self-control issues, particularly in the areas of theft, shoplifting and writing bad checks. This program’s mission is to help youth out an end to their disruptive behaviors and build solid respectable futures based on a foundation of ethical decision making and a genuine desire to make the right choices, for the right reasons, for their own well-being, and the well-being of their families and their communities.

The number one cause of death for teens between the ages of 16 to 19 is from injuries caused by motor vehicle crashes. Studies indicate that teens in this age group are four times more likely than older drivers to crash. This program, utilizing cognitive behavioral based strategies and approaches, uses role playing techniques and preventive guidance for teens that need to know how good decision-making skills and personal self-control can help make up for a lack of driving experience, and help keep them, their passengers, and others they meet on the road, safe and alive.

During adolescence a teen’s need for independence grow and asserts itself in many ways, often leading to very stressful and conflict producing relationships between them and their parents. This program, utilizing cognitive behavioral strategies and approaches, is a hopeful solution to help re-establish balance to this parents-teen relationship. Family Reunion is a parents and teen communication and conflict resolution program, designed to give both parents and teens the skills they need to communicate effectively and understand each other’s individual and unique needs, while resolving the conflict that is inherent in the parents-teen relationship.

Truancy is one of the leading causes of teens not graduating high school, living in poverty, and ending up in the or prison. Kids are truant for a variety of reason—friends, poor relationship with teachers, a disconnectedness from their school, lack of interest in class topics, being bullied or teased, low self-esteem, drug or alcohol use, language barriers, lack of adequate social skills, etc. In this program, utilizing cognitive behavioral strategies and approaches, we educate our youth with eye-opening insight into the laws and regulations that, in many States, charges parents with Class C Misdemeanors for each day a child misses school. The program empowers youth to succeed by giving them specific options for overcoming their fears and insecurities, by offering ethical decision making strategies that work, by teaching them (through a facilitated, mentored environment) proven communication, conflict resolution and negotiation skills. This curriculum is divided for use as either a shorter or longer duration curriculum.

This program is designed for schools for grade recovery. School Systems may choose to allow those students who have managed to maintained their grades, but have missed entirely too many days, or been tardy too many times to pass to the next grade level, to attend “Truancy Summer School” and utilize this Truancy Intervention Program to teach truants the hard harsh reality that truancy is one of the leading causes of teens not graduating high school, living in poverty, and ending up in the or prison. Utilizing cognitive behavioral strategies, this program teaches youth to re-strategize their futures.

The Surgeon General warns us that about 3,000 kids start smoking every day. Because tobacco is so addictive, we know that once kids start, they are not likely to stop on their own. In this program we educate our youth not only about the health risks and the dangers of this addiction, including rational emotive behavioral therapy. This education, awareness, and intervention program was developed specially to combat the highly addictive native, glamorization and commercialization of smoking and the use of smokeless tobacco from both a health and legal perspective.