Education, trade and professional skills development, and leadership, including:
- Hands-on experience by working with Community Partners to offer internships and OJT
- Opportunity to develop real-world professional relationships
- Learn responsibility, critical thinking and problem-solving by serving on committees that require attending meetings, leading teams, and interacting with partners and volunteers
- Self esteem and confidence building exercises
- Leadership development
- Gratitude, service, and giving back
Independence and self-sufficiency training, and professional preparation including:
- Life skills and household management
- Budgeting, money management
- Personal tax preparation
- Transportation, car ownership, maintenance, responsibility, and insurance
- Resume writing and interviewing
- Dressing for success
- Professional presentations
- Managing personal and professional relationships
- Conflict resolution and commitment to non-violence
iMhealthy
A long-term results-driven program that focuses on the whole person in 4 key areas:
physical health and wellness, emotional healing, independence preparedness and professional development.
iMfree
iMready!
iMequipped
Emotional healing through expressive arts and small group sessions, including:
- Expressive Arts such as: Dance, Drama, Voice, Music
- Creative Arts such as writing, design, crafts, pottery, photography, videography
- Group and individual counseling
- Trauma-informed mentoring
- Positive thinking and motivational workshops
- Relaxation techniques
- Mindfulness, meditation
- Moral conscience, ethics, and character development
- Spiritual guidance, prayer, optional bible study
A guided results-based personal journey to whole health and wellness, including:
- Nutrition education
- Food prep and culinary arts
- Food shopping, label reading
- Physical fitness, fitness classes, weight-lifting, sports
- Weight management
- Whole health assessments
- Mind, body, spirit connection
- Confidence building activities
- Stress management
- Anger management
- Healthy relationships, respect of yourself and others
- Personal hygiene
- Sexually transmitted and infectious diseases, STD's, STI's, HIV
- Abstinence, disease prevention