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Our Approach

As a result of participation in our educational program, what do we want students to know and be able to do?
 
  • Identify education as a meaningful vehicle for self improvement
  • Identify themselves as viable learners
  • Identify positive/socially acceptable problem solving strategies, and begin to apply them
  • Practice Reflection and Self-reflection (taking responsibility, ownership of choices & ability to effect change in themselves, exploration and challenging of pre-conceived ideas about why people are the way they are)
  • Identify and develop effective methods for dealing with conflict and anger
  • Dispel "eye for an eye" and retaliatory thinking
For most students, stories of human struggle are compelling. However, they are particularly captivating for at-risk youth, who tend to see their own struggles as isolated hardships, removed from history and present day society. Through an exploration of the means by which the central characters in these stories have fought against and coped with hardship, the students are offered a context within which to view their own personal struggles. They are also provided a forum within which to express the anger and fear they may feel vulnerable in expressing about their own lives. Most importantly, the students will be offered the opportunity to see that they too, have a story and a voice that matters, and that there are constructive means by which to overcome the worst of conditions and to triumph.
 

 

I am Josh
Who cares about my father
And dreams of serenity
 

I am a tranquil person
Who worries about the well being of others

And sees the brightness in those who suffer 

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