Our programming provides seven hours of engaged teaching that dissects information about the teen brain and how it disseminates information and makes decisions—our choices at a very young age directly affect adulthood. Our choices also stem from our identity, current and past positive experiences/traumas, and future hopes and dreams.

The family unit experiences various levels of stress, whether unexpected and unsolicited or intentional and preventable. Relational stressors in a home where adolescents are present create a complicated dynamic during this critical stage of growth and learning. When a child’s home life is in turmoil, the child can struggle much more to concentrate, learn new concepts and skills, and build healthy views of themselves and others than children who come from healthy homes with supportive caregivers. Family Frameworks focuses our programming on educating teens through a curriculum that creates understanding in areas that affect identity and character building in the teen years and how that relates to their relationships with others. Our efforts provide relationship education to prevent unhealthy and harmful relationship habits from developing. Our theme, “Choose to Lead,” strongly encourages honorable leadership behaviors, mimicking individuals’ attributes that motivate and influence their peers in the present and ultimately in the future.

In the relationship-building phase of maturing, our Healthy Choices/Healthy Relationships program strongly emphasizes the Pathway to Success principles:

• Graduate high school.

• Pursue post-secondary education.

• Get a job/career.

• Then after all of the above, pursue long-term relationships that lead to potentially creating a family unit.