ALL IT TAKES
Equipping youth and those who serve them with essential emotional intelligence skills to successfully navigate their lives and support their communities.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Legacy Leadership Camp
Runs from Friday morning to Sunday afternoon and involves up to 120 middle school students from various schools and various socially economic and diverse backgrounds. The camp is made up of multiple schools who each bring up to 30 student influencers from each of the main ‘lunch tables’ along with independent students who have signed up to come on their own or with a friend or two from their school. This camp is currently offered several times during each school year. Alumni Mentors return during these camps to support new campers and their experience.
7th Grade Leadership Camp
We know that when 7th graders collectively feel the impact, (positive or negative), that they generate through every word and action they will choose, on purpose, to look after each other rather than go after each other. This confidence and compassion building program causes a paradigm shift in accountability that creates substantially safer and happier school environments. With this, all students are able to thrive both socially and academically. This program is designed to include all interested 7th graders from a school site along with staff and administration. Follow up curriculum and activities are offered to schools along with post camp visits and programming by AiT. Results and testimonials speak for themselves, participating schools and districts are returning next year and new schools are booking their camp dates now.
AiT Camp By Design
All it Takes works with individual schools, districts and community programs such as the Boys and Girls Club, to design programs around specific needs, goals and budgets. These have included ½ day, full day and weekend camps for grades K-12. Contact us for more information.
Leadership Development Through Physical Education, (LDTPE)
A K-8 supplemental program to currently existing PE programs. Matching California State Standard #5 for social-emotional development.
Out of the Box
Out of the Box is a Leadership Development program that focuses on the initiation and advancement of Emotional Intelligence & Literacy (EI/EL) traits for youth, ages 5-18. The kit provides skill and language development that supports EI and EL growth along with experiential education, philosophies, and activities. This toolbox provides a dynamic curriculum that engages all learning styles: auditory, visual, kinesthetic and emotive, creating outcomes that are both immediate and transferrable.
A Trusted Space
A Trusted Space is foundational training for educators on how to help mitigate the effects of the grief, trauma, anxiety and other emotional stressors that so many students, families, and even they themselves, are feeling as they walk – or video conference – into school. By learning about and understanding the complex issues and feelings that they and their students are coping with, teachers will be able to help redirect grief into growth by building a safe and trusted emotional space. This will ultimately create a better environment for learning and more resilient students.
The docu-training film includes experts in trauma-informed education weighing in to address the overwhelming anxiety and fear many have about being in school, whatever the setting.
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We see a world with people who have what it takes to be leaders both in their own lives and for others. Leaders who, through compassionate action, make positive changes in the world that benefit us all. We see a world where those same people get the tools and education they need to spread the word and keep the momentum moving positively. We see a world where we first notice, and then we choose and ultimately act in ways that bring harmony within our circles, our communities and our world.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our program is uniquely combining social and emotional development curriculum in an experiential learning model. This technique allows participants to take our curriculum and experience the meaning through active involvement with others. They are not simply being taught to act or think a certain way, they are being empowered to take action in a positive way that benefits themselves and society. We offer various forms of programming from on-site to off-site education programs that tie into a students everyday well-being and citizenship.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We are strongly volunteer based with minimal staff and we pair ourselves with like-minded companies to assist in the implementation of camp-like activities, that drive the fun of our curriculum, and intimate group processing time after activities. It is through fun, physical activities that participants are able
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Growth of programming to meet the needs of schools that are in lower socio-economic areas and in most need do to higher than average crime rates and lower community involvement.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals, To partner and support other similar organizations
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We share the feedback we received with the people we serve
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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ALL IT TAKES
Board of directorsas of 03/11/2024
Paul Menes
Attorney
Term: 2023 - 2025
Lori Woodley
All it Takes Development
Wendy Compton
Red 21/Realistic/RocSoftware
Tanner Woodley
Santa Monica College
Paul Menes
Cortney Montgomery
Keck Medical Center of USC
Jon Power
GrailTherapy
Karin Gornick
Elephant in the Room
Sarah Bernson
MFCC
Julienne Ho
Consultant
Alajandra Valencia
Lorelie Evangelista
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.