YouthAlert! (YA!) Youth Peace Program is offered to schools throughout Chicago and the State of Illinois.
It is "Survive & Thrive" Education and Skills Training for Youth School-Based Universal Violence Prevention Model Practice & Curriculum
A Live, In-Person Presentation, Direct to All Students, by a YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. instructor. Age-Appropriate Programming for those Twenty-Six Years year of age or younger. One to three-day presentations available.
Ninety Units Available Including Bullying, Cyber-Bullying, Self-Harm, Peer Violence, Dating Violence, Domestic Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, Gun Violence, Gang Violence, School Violence, Media, Equity, Kindness
Some of the core concepts of the program is:
All youth are equal in meaning, importance, value, and worth without exception.
It is all youth destiny to live a long and healthy life
Survival is the "Name Of the Game" for youth.
All violence by youth is essential self- destructive
Most hurt themselves rather than get hurt by others.
The best team is an equal youth/adult team. That is what the presentation is.
Most youth are peaceful; therefore, we say to youth, “Don't Change.” Youth are one hundred percent innocent and perfect just the way they are
Tomorrow is another day. One day can and often does make all the difference.
All "wars" are "Youth vs. Youth Wars"
We are fighting to end the "War Against Youth" with all forms of violence and all youth
Program Participant History, 80% Teens (60% Middle School Age, 30% High School Age) and 10% Elementary School Age.
The Program is insured, and its presentation personnel is fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
The Program is modeled on the Universal School-Based Violence Prevention Practice, which has been rated “Effective” to "Reduce Aggression" in K–12 students by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2021.
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YouthAlert! (YA!) "Youth Peace" Program is now active in schools and out-of-school locations in California, Florida, Chicago Illinois regions, the New York City Region, and Kentucky. The program is also available in other states in the U.S.A. The program is "Survive and Thrive" skills training focused on teens. Extra attention is given to U.S minorities and the LGBTIQ+ community.
The program is designed on an "Effective" model practice:
“Universal school-based programs decrease rates of violence and aggressive behavior among school-aged children. Program effects were demonstrated at all grade levels.” (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC)
Subjets include Bullying, Cyberbullying, Self-Harm, Gun Violence, Peer Violence, LGBTIQ+ Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, Interpersonal Violence, Gang Violence, School Violence, Media, Inequity of Violence, Victimization, and more.
Average for All Programs: $2.00 per youth. Pricing that puts the program within reach of many communities.
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With students returning to in-class learning in the Chicago, IL area, YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. is bringing its in-person peace program directly to kids, most especially in middle school and high school. Our peace program is where youth and adults meet halfway for a more peaceful and better life for all. Teamwork is our solution to everything.
We teach the power of youth internal individual identity and that being peaceful is in every child and youth’s self-interest. The two principles that guide our program is “equality” and “kindness.” The program gives special attention to U.S. minorities and those in the LGBTQ+ community. Our program all gives kids valuable information about other prevention and intervention groups and agencies they can access for free.
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In the age of COVID, YouthAlert! (YA) U.S.A. is developing more fullying its on-line/virtual YouthAlert! (YA!) Peace Program for Children and Youth. The program is becoming essential for those schools with Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) requirements. The YA! program help kids survive and thrive in the real world. YA! believe all 1.8 billion youth in the world are equal in meaning, importance, value, and worth, and equal in any other way you can think of. We also believe youth peace could a very successful step to world peace. The biggest problem we think the U.S. has today is the horrible youth gun violence problem and the terrible inequality that comes with it.
That is why YouthAlert! (YA!) U.S.A. with its Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC at the United Nations is promoting its own; peace first, youth peace first, peace plans for the Korean Peninsula and Syria. The solution is teamwork, and in our own small way, we hope to be a part of theirs, and others, peace team.
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YouthAlert! (YA!) Program - Universal Violence and Bully Prevention Education and Training is going digital.
Check out our first nine live narration samples for nine YouthAlert! (YA!) Program Units.
Topics:
Ways You Are In Control Of Your Own Life (6:18)
What Makes you an Individual (5:33)
The Principles Of Being a Good Person (9:03)
How Bullying Affects Children (11:30)
How To Prevent Suicide (2:57)
How To Be More Kind To Yourself And Others (5:09)
Violence and Equity (8:14)
What Violence Actually Is (7:30)
Caring about Violence (11:29)
67:43 minutes total
YouthAlert! (YA!) Program has a total of ninety units. More video narration samples to come.
YouthAlert! (YA!) Program is one-third instruction/narration, one-third individual/group activity, one-third student testing.
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