YOUTH
Workshop Series for Youth
Management, Organization, and Work Habits
Maximize Your Memory
Take Control of Your Time (time management)
Top Tips for Studying
Extra SMART Goal Setting
SEL and Wellness
Stress Management
Calm Your Mind-mindfulness and movement strategies
Communication and Collaboration
Unconscious Bias
Healthy Relationships- with Friends, Family, and Beyond
Making Friends in College*
Mindsets For Perseverance
Your Brain Explained- How knowing your brain sets you up for success. Neuroscience Series 1)
Befriend Your Brain (Neuroscience Series 2)
Discover Your Purpose
PowerUp PROGRAM
Metropolitan Diploma Plus High School students visit the PowerTools office for a workshop on Growth Mindset and an Escape Room game to practice their new skills
PowerUp Program supports students between the ages of 10-21 to realize their personal power and build leadership skills. Participants support each other to identify their core values, set and maintain goals, use their voice to communicate with authority, and hone their collaborative leadership skills. This program is evidence-based, fun and youth-centered.
The Purpose
Build resilience, enhanced self-compassion, sense of identity, and recognition of personal values and assets
Realization of social and academic goals
Enhanced communication, conflict resolution, and collaborative problem solving skills
Create a sense of connection, empathy and shared power with other young people
The Process:
14 sessions during or after-school sessions (longer programs are 24 sessions)
We focus on our PowerUp five point process:
Who are we and how can we best present our true selves to the world?
Who has paved the path for us?
How can we live in alignment with our values?
YOUTH REVIEWS:
“I never ever thought about my values before. This program changed the way I think about myself!”
“(This program) is like our safe space. We all talk to each other about anything. You’d never know that some of us had beef with each other outside of here.”
“Now I know how to break a goal down into smaller chunks. This will help me to reach my goals and help other girls to reach theirs”
ACTIVE ART EXPERIENCE
Youth Artists at the East Fordham Academy For the Arts stand in front of their mural, 2016
Want to build school culture? Let students lead the way in this exciting art program where youth design and create a public mural while practicing social emotional strategies and art skills. Offered during or after school, youth enhance their leadership skills, practice collaborative problem solving and self-expression while having a blast and beautifying their school.
The Purpose:
Enhance school culture through a student-centered mural project.
Increase student sense of belonging and connection to their school and peers.
Increase positive self-identity, Growth Mindset and recognition of personal assets
Develop artistic and leadership skills
Opportunity to showcase their identities, strengths, passions, community and personal power.
The Process:
Youth examine the core values, mission and culture of their school, identifying ways they are played out in the day-to-day.
Guided by professional artists, youth collaboratively identify a mural theme that reflects these core values and school culture.
Youth design and realize each step of the artistic process, creating a customized and detailed mural on the school's interior wall.
Youth participate in an "Unveiling" in which they share their personal journey, and the purpose and impact of the mural on themselves individually as well as their school.
YOUTH REVIEWS:
"We got to participate in drawing and creating the mural. It was fun and it increased our interest in the school. We could show off what we're doing and how we're improving."
"I liked the teamwork- we agreed to what we were going to do and we all knew what we were doing."
"I didn't think I could do this, but I did. I feel like a real artist."
ART FOR YOUTH ACTIVISTS
Youth Power! Art for Youth Activists is an fun weekly middle school and high school program that enables youth to raise their voice, raise awareness and make a difference using art as their medium. Guided by professional teaching artists, youth select select topics that are important to them and then create art and actions that help spread the word to and with the community. Past topics have included immigration, animal testing and body image and race. This program is offered during and after school.
The Purpose
Enhanced sense of personal and collective power
Identification of issues participants want to stand up for
Deeper understanding of the stance and skills of an activist.
Raise awareness of, raise funds for, and/or education the public about youth-designated causes/issues
The Process
Youth examine the important role of art as a vehicle for social change and equity
Youth select an issue that is important to them and collectively decide on an audience, message, and artistic vehicle.
Youth design and showcase their art as a means to raise their voices and express their power and opinions
