Reconnecting Youth Program

Reconnecting Youth (RY) is a proven, award-winning program that helps high-risk youth achieve in school and decrease drug use and emotional stress. Designed for students aged 14-18, RY is a high school-based curriculum that uses small group skills training to enhance personal competencies and social support resources.

Reconnecting Youth is an approved Texas Education Agency (TEA) Innovative Course with a Texas Education Agency PEIMS number. Students who elect to take the course receive .5 state elective credit. In 2007, Fort Worth ISD included the RY program in the districts' Bulletin 100.

For over eight years, Santa Fe Youth Services has provided the RY curriculum to high school students attending the Tarrant County Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP) as well as Fort Worth and Keller ISDs.

Reconnecting Youth Program Details

For more information, contact Program Coordinator
Cora Mosley.

Second Step Violence Prevention Program

Second Step is an award-winning school based violence prevention program that integrates social and emotional learning with academics for middle school students. The program identifies and intervenes on a range of behaviors all known precursors to more aggressive and violent behaviors. It is designed to reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior and increase the ability to get along with others by teaching and practicing vital social skills, such as:

• empathy
• emotion management
• problem solving
• cooperation

These essential life skills help students in the classroom, on the playground, and at home. Educators report reductions in discipline referrals, improvement in their school climate, heightened feelings of inclusiveness and respect, and an increase in the sense of confidence and responsibility in their students.

Second Step Program Details

For more information, contact Program Coordinator Cora Mosley.

Botvin LifeSkills Can Help!

What is LifeSkills Training?

LifeSkills training is a universal prevention program that teaches prevention related information, promotes anti-drug norms, teaches drug refusal skills, and fosters the development of personal self-management and general social skills.

Designed to be taught in sequence over three years, "Life Skills" has been tested with a broad range of youth and specifically targets middle-school aged boys and girls living in suburban and urban environments. Lessons held during school are approximately 45 minutes each and address:

• Making Decisions: Decision analysis - choices and consequences; influences of peers, parents, media and others.
• Social Skills: Overcoming shyness - social contacts, conversations, opened-ended questions.
• Coping with Anger: Recognizing anger - causes and consequences; identifying reasons and techniques to control anger.

What are the benefits of LifeSkills Training?

LifeSkills Training is an evidence-based program.

• Proven to reduce tobacco, alcohol and other drug use.
  
• Provides motivation and skills necessary to resist peer and media pressure to use drugs.
• Provides participants with the skills needed to deal with the challenges of life as an adolescent.
• Reduces violence by teaching conflict resolution techniques.

For More Information please contact Program Coordinator Cora Mosley.