"Cancelled Lives": A video and discussion that describes life inside juvenile detention, jail, and prison facilities. We consider this our "wake up call" to encourage the youth to look down the road and decide how far into the juvenile system they want to travel.
"What’s to Become of Me": A discussion of how all choices have positive and negative consequences on our future. Emphasized is the need to develop the mental, physical, social, and spiritual areas of our life to be a balanced person and make better choices.
"Life on the Wire": A creative session designed to show in a visual way how our positive and negative decisions have impacted our life. Others may affect our lives, but for the most part our lives are affected by our own choices.
“What You Believe is not What You Think": This session teaches the truth that our "actions" reveal to the world what we believe. It is very important that our
actions follow what we say we believe and value, otherwise we have only succeeded in fooling ourselves.
SPECIFIC GOALS FOR PARTICIPANTS:
Ø To give a "wake up call” It’s time to get control of their lives before it’s too late.
Ø To experience how to work together as a team and deal with frustration positively.
Ø To develop analytical thinking and problem solving skills.
Ø To challenge abilities and encourage a positive work ethic.
Ø To build confidence through new experiences and accomplishments.
Ø To minimize selfishness and develop a growing and genuine concern for others.
Ø To help realize strengths and encourage their development.
Ø To help recognize and curb negative attitudes and actions.
Ø To debrief challenge experiences and discuss how to apply them to real life situations
Ø To emphasize the importance of growing mentally, physically, socially, and spiritually.
Ø To challenge them to take responsibility for their actions and the resulting consequences.
Ø To encourage them to seek reconciliation with those they may have hurt.
And finally to encourage participants to seek help and support from family and trusted teachers, counselors, coaches, and pastors to make a positive “Midcourse Correction”.
