Tweens to Teens & Young Adult Programs
Our TTYA Programs consist of "No More Tears", Loving Me, Buds to Roses Sister-Hood, and a mentoring program titled "I Am Not My Hair". All of the programs teach positive perspectives of living. These programs are evolving and changing constantly and is prooving to be quality teaching for the ladies. All programs teach the importance of community involvement and volunteering. This program will operate under the direction of our Youth Program Leader, Kinakia Claiborne.
" No More Tears" is an ongoing segment that focus on bullying awareness and prevention. Our team of professionals have come together with community leaders, educators, other agencies and officials to openly discuss bullying with our teen girls. The segment emphasizes that it is okay to be your own unique self and not to give in to peer pressure of being in negative clicks and groups that discriminate against others. The team uses role play techniques, open dialogue and other suggestive mechanisms to convey message against bullying.
"Loving Me"
" Loving Me" is a workshop that embodies several areas of health. Mental Health, Nutritional Health, Physical Heath and Fitness, Emotional Health, Spiritual Health, and Personal Health/Hygeine are among the specific areas (topics) discussed and implemented under the " Loving Me" workshop. Techniques such as, fun outtings, group sessions, and more are used to convey the importance of loving oneself.
Buds to Roses
non-collegiate female youth sister-hood
"I Am Not My Hair"
"Buds to Roses" is a sister-hood program that bring togeher our girls from the tween age and carry them through young adultood. This program encourages female bonding and friendships between our ladies. This sister-hood promotes committment to caring, being trustworthy, and love of onesself and their sister. The program highlights the negativity of back-biting and bullying and deposits the perspective of careful communication. This sister-hood program uses bonding techniques, outtings, and other activities to bring the ladies together.
" I Am Not My Hair" is a mentoing program that instill positive self-talk and perspectives into the lives of our youngladies. Because of many reasons, our girls and youngladies believe that they can only fit in if they look a certain way. One of the biggest ideas among our female youth is that beauty is about having a certain texture and long hair. This mentoring program teaches that females are so much more than acceptance of looking a certain way. Individual uniqueness is encouraged and identified.