Footprints for Life® is a six-session primary prevention program designed to build developmental assets through the use of puppets and stories that feature “real-life” situations. The program helps young children build strong social competencies to grow up with healthy behaviors and attitudes. Includes: Six interactive …
Psychological & Psychiatric Evaluations
This general service is offered by qualified and committed healthcare professionals in order to help patients of all ages and all types to better understand themselves and how to live better lives. Knowing that a problem exists is the first way to solving it. And …
Beginning Awareness and Basic Education Skills (BABES)
Focuses on life skills for children in grades 2-3 through the use of puppetry, songs, and imaginative stories. Through interactive sessions, children learn how to handle challenging social situations among peers and within the family and are encouraged to make positive choices about alcohol and …
Al’s Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices
This program is an early childhood, resiliency-based curriculum designed to teach healthy decision-making skills to children in preschool-grade 2. Al’s Pals helps children develop personal, social and emotional skills through guided creative play, puppetry and role-playing and teaches them how to express feelings appropriately, think …
Child, Teen and Parent Support Groups
Support groups are key to not only social development, but also for lasting therapy and benefits mental health by helping people form bonds with one another. People of all ages can benefit from support groups as well, since children going through some difficult can talk …
Play Therapy & Creative Arts Therapy
The ability for children – and sometimes all of us – to enjoy play or just running around can have a very positive effect on future living. Creativity is very helpful in every form, whether it’s play, or whether it’s drawing, painting, or creating. Our …
Guiding Good Choices
This program is a multi-session program designed to educate the parents of children in grades 4-8 on how to reduce the risk that their children will develop drug problems. The curriculum is based on research conducted by Dr. David Hawkins and Dr. Richard Catalano of …
Courageous Kids (for Adults)
Focuses on the issue of bullying among students from a teacher/parent perspective. Courageous Kids supports the OLWEUs Bullying Prevention Program, a research-based, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention model program developed by Dr. Dan Olweus. Couregous Kids for Adults explores the reasons behind bullying, the personal …
10 Steps to Keep Children Drug-Free
This program offers adults resources and education that they need in order to begin talking with children and teens about drugs and other substances and become a part of the process of prevention. The core of this program addresses the problem of substance use among …
Family Friendly Center
The Family Friendly Center is an initiative in collaboration with the Lakewood Board of Education. The Center provides after-school programming in 6 areas: Academic Remediation, Academic Enrichment, Cultural and Artistic Activities, Health, Nutrition, Fitness and Physical Activities, Positive Youth Development and Parental Involvement. The usual …