Health and Life Skills develop young people's capacity to engage in positive behaviors that nurture their own well-being, set personal goals and live successfully as self-sufficient adults. The following programs aim to enhance Health and Life Skills.

 

 

SMART Moves

 

Sponsored by the DeWitt Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund, this prevention program teaches youth to resist alcohol, tobacco and other drug use. Designed to increase participants' peer support, enhance their life skills, build their resilience and strengthen their leadership skills, also encourages youth to abstain from premature sexual activity.

 

Street SMART

 

Youth ages 11-13 learn to build awareness and resistance skills from the temptation of negative influences of gangs, violence and the "street". Participants develop the confidence and knowledge to make intelligent choices though three modules: recognizing how gangs work and how to resist being recruited, how to recognize and resolve conflicts peacefully and how to become positive peer helpers.

 

Mind Body

 

Mind Body and Soul (MBS) is a combination of classroom education, physical fitness activities, workshops, guest speakers, parental involvement, community outreach and field trips that address the mind-body connection in order to address the underlying factors in the environment.

 

CATCH Healthy Habits

 

CATCH Healthy Habits program combats the serious problem of childhood obesity by engaging adults as mentors, to teach healthy lifelong habits to kids. CATCH Healthy Habits pairs teams of adults with elementary school kids. Classes meet once a week for 8-week sessions. Hour sessions include fun games and exercises, preparing healthy snacks and learning about good food choices.

 

Crest Smile Shoppe and Cavity-free Zone

 

Developed to help fight the oral health crisis facing America's underprivileged children, our state-of-the-art, on-site full-service dental clinic provides comprehensive, no-cost oral hygiene care to our members. In addition to screenings, cleanings, and demonstrations of healthy habits and the importance of proper oral hygiene. Twice a year we also reach out and provide these services to our surrounding community.