DESTINY OF H O P E

Re-Discovering You is a comprehensive Program designed to challenge the dictum “I know myself better than anyone else.” Knowing yourself is more than knowing your name, birth date, bloodline, or where you are from. Know yourself is being able to identify, label and direct your feelings. Knowing yourself is being able to recognize your “Pathological Critic” and being able to trance its origin.

Throughout this course you will learn of your “Critic” and his/her intentions, when to practice self-care and how to silence its voice and reduce its effects. You will learn of the effects of Trauma and those triggers that take you back that “trauma site.” More importantly, you will learn about yourself.

The Critical Change Gang Prevention Program is a comprehensive behavioral health and gang determent program who curriculum is built from the perspectives of former gang members who found the need and courage to change course. This program’s curriculum shall consist of lesson plans, participant worksheets, workshops, videos, workbooks, course readers and activities provided during in-session use.

The idea for a program like the Critical Change Gang Prevention Program was born out of the minds of several convicted felons who had been neatly tucked away on Missouri’s prison industrial complex. The uniqueness of these men allowed them to see beneath the rough exterior of generational youth. As former gang members who once shared the same mentality as many of those we are encountering, we were urged to assist in promoting change in those who may not at this point recognize that change is necessary.

This program is designed for those individuals who are consumed by the very essence of their dependencies, whether those dependencies are drugs, money, sex, or whatever coping mechanism is utilized to escape the pains of trauma. This program will require mental health specialist to address some of the deeply rooted pain that will arise throughout this program.

Research have prove that "Effective Communication" can reduce the explosion of anger and increase self-esteem. This program is designed to assist those struggling with expressing themselves without the feeling of anger because they may feel that no one understands them, or at the very least, lacking the necessary esteem required to be effective in that dialog with someone. Communication is an art form, and it is our mission to teach participants that lost perspective.

This is a program designed to teach children about self-esteem and the importance of goal setting. Self-esteem is vital to the goals that we set for ourselves, because our visions of how we see ourselves in relation to the world around us is how we dream: Big or Small.

Grades 1-6 will be allowed to participate in this program, while 7-12 will be presented an advanced version that is connected to other programs.