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ACT Weekend
The ACT Weekend Program is a Friday through Sunday program that provides youth with an intervention for disruptive actions and behaviors in their community.
This program offers youth an opportunity to develop social competencies, improve positive identity, gain insight into past behavior, and identify their strengths, which will form the basis for future change and growth. The program includes core-skills based psycho-educational groups/assignments, community service activities, and adventure based activities.
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Psycho-educational Groups
The ACT weekend program offers open ended 13 week Core skills based psychoeducational groups addressing anger management, drug and alcohol education, bullying, victim awareness, decision making, personal responsibility ,and criminal and addictive thinking are offered on a rotating basis. Covered topics are reinforced with “homework” assignments/journaling.
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Adventure
We use adventure because it works. Through team building activities and safe opportunities to climb, backpack, hike, and Kayak students and Youth Mentors break through boundaries, build self- awareness, and learn that they can do hard things. These opportunities to experience success promotes healthy identity development, improved-self confidence, and enduring change. Students then transfer this new found belief in their own potential for success back into their lives. Our adventure components occur with in a context of supportive relationships with field mentors, peers, and clinicians.
At YSA, creating a safe environment for our students is our number one priority. We maintain the highest standards of safety. Our Youth Mentors maintain an engaged approach allowing students to be continuously observed.
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Service
Community service is a primary component of many of our services. Our community service program places an emphasis on civic engagement and service learning. Service is performed as a means of aiding in the rehabilitation process or by way of compensation to the victim. Undertaking community service provides our youth with an understanding of the issues within the community, increases empathy, instills moral responsibility to help those in need, and helps them gain a better understanding of how to make constructive changes while forming meaningful relationships with others. We strive to restore victims through restitution, and restore the community through the preservation of public buildings and parks.
For more information about the ACT Weekend program, please contact Sierra Titus, Program Supervisor, at 484-239-8789