The number one cause of death for teens between the ages of 16 to 19 is from injuries caused by motor vehicle crashes. Studies indicate that teens in this age group are four times more likely than older drivers to be in an accident. This program, utilizing cognitive behavioral-based strategies and approaches, uses role-playing techniques and preventive guidance for teens who need to know how good decision-making skills and personal self-control can help make up for a lack of driving experience. It helps keep them, their passengers, and others they meet on the road, safe and alive.

Cognitive behavioral-based strategies and approaches and CHARACTER COUNTS (R) The Six Pillars of Character(R) (trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship) build the foundation for this program. Youth learn to internalize these values while also gaining an understanding of ethical decision-making models and strategies. They learn how to apply these to their lives.

Many youth have no idea how to create and sustain a productive, positive life for themselves. The focus of this program is on life, job and everyday survival skills for youth. (An adult program is also available.) In "Surviving Life," youth receive a reality crash course in character education, personal relationships, teen parenting, emotion control, budgeting, and how to find and keep a job. Using cognitive behavioral-based strategies and approaches, this is an intensive program. It is designed more for the older teen.

This program uses cognitive-based strategies to help troubled youth learn to deal with the turbulent emotions and stressors that often lead to serious problems for today's teens. The "Emotion Control" program first addresses the powerful emotions that stem from rejection, failure, criticism, frustration, confusion, and disappointment which many times culminate in anger and rage. Stuffing emotionally volatile kids into anger management programs intended for developmentally mature adults in hope that it will make a difference is at best unrealistic, and at worst, downright dangerous. In...

The Surgeon General warns that about 3,800 kids start smoking every day. Because tobacco is so addictive, we know that once kids start, they are not likely to stop on their own. This program utilizes REBT (Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy) and educates them about health risks and the dangers of their addiction. This education, awareness, and intervention program was developed to combat the highly addictive nature, glamorization and commercialization of smoking and the use of smokeless tobacco from both a health and legal perspective.

Truancy is one of the leading causes of teens not graduating high school, living in poverty, and ending up in prison. Kids are truant for a variety of reasons-friends, poor relationship with teachers, a disconnectedness from their school, lack of interest in class topics, being bullied or teased, low self-esteem, drug or alcohol use, language barriers, lack of adequate social skills, etc. In this program, utilizing cognitive behavioral strategies and approaches, we educate our youth with eye-opening insight into the laws and regulations that, in many states, charges parents with Class C...

During adolescence, a teen's need for independence grows and asserts itself in many ways, often leading to very stressful and conflict-producing relationships between them and their parents. This program, utilizing cognitive behavioral strategies and approaches, is a hopeful solution to help re-establish balance to this parent-teen relationship. Family Reunion is a parent and teen communication and conflict resolution program, designed to give both parents and teens the skills they need to communicate effectively and understand each other's individual and unique needs.

This program, using cognitive behavioral-based strategies and approaches, guides teens and adults through an educational process to help them with personal self-control issues. Areas of study include theft, shoplifting and writing bad checks. Its mission is to help youth put an end to their disruptive behaviors and to build solid respectable futures based on a foundation of ethical decision-making and a genuine desire to make the right choices, for the right reasons, for their own well-being and for the well-being of their families and their communities.

This program utilizes cognitive-based strategies to help teens and adults who do not have serious alcohol or drug problems. This program is intended as an education, intervention and awareness program. It is meant to provide guidance and educational insight to teens whose A & D experimentation has created problems in their lives.

This program was designed primarily to be used as a support guide for parents and caregivers of youth who complete a MK program or course guide. However, it can also be used with parents individually or as a couple to help resolve some of the most difficult issues we have as parents and to give a little support along the tumultuous path to raising a teenager. We also include helpful information for divorced parents and parents of students with chronic attendance and discipline issues.