Youth
Every child and young person deserves equitable access to tools that support physical, mental, and emotional health and wellbeing. Our trauma-sensitive programs for young people combine mind-body practices like yoga and mindfulness, experiential development of core competencies of Social Emotional Learning, and collaborative learning to promote connection and community.
Through a strengths-based and resilience-building approach, we provide a space for young people to learn and practice skills that support their holistic wellbeing and their continued growth toward their highest potential.
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The practices we share are proven to increase:
- Resilience
- Focus and concentration
- Self-awareness
- Mental and emotional wellbeing
- Self-esteem
- Purpose, hope and compassion
- Restful sleep, relaxation and energy
- Sense of community
Our program offerings include:
- Ongoing weekly trauma-sensitive yoga and mindfulness classes;
- Flexible and adaptive curriculum-based programs focused on our four skill building Learning Modules for young people;
- Staff development, teacher in-service, and professional trainings for people working with children and adolescents seeking to adopt trauma-sensitive practices, share yoga and mindfulness, or explore teaching models based on co-created space and collaboration and mutuality with learners.
Program Highlights
- A justice program for youth found improvement in emotional awareness and regulation.
- A program evaluation using an emoji rating for satisfaction found the students enjoyed the class and found the guided relaxation to be the most helpful.
- An evaluation of a justice program found that there was an increase in the youth’s ability to pay attention to how they feel.
- An evaluation of a justice program found that young people had increased confidence in trying new things, and an increase in feeling able to try again if they do not succeed at first, a key component of resilience.
- Evaluations at a Youth Detention Center showed that 100 % of youth who gave responses to how they feel after taking the class described themselves as either calm or relaxed.
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Katy Kopnitsky
Youth Director
Colleen DeVirgiliis
Director of Training