Youth Empowerment Skills (YES) Program
Who: YOUTH (11-18), Principals, Teachers, Guidance Counsellors, Parents
Teachers – how are your students dealing with conflict and bullying?
Conflict is a fact of life – we all face it throughout our lives. The scars of bullying last a lifetime.
PMAST has an 8-week workshop (one class per week) which supports youth in understanding approaches to dealing with conflict, how different genders respond to conflict, creating healthy relationships and anti-bullying behaviour. These are skills which last a lifetime.
Practical skills are shared to help participants reduce bullying and tension in their social environments while building respect, compassion, empathy, and resiliency as they enter adulthood.
This workshop also has a version designed for a culturally diverse population.
Contact Information:
Florence Lye: 403 669-1211, flo@pmast.org
Brenda Christie: 403 860-3759, Brenda@pmast.org
Testimonials
Teresa Martin, Principal Nelson Mandela High School (from the Calgary Herald)
“These relationship skills assist our students in their personal and occupational lives, helping them to make healthy choices, build healthy relationships and prevent their involvement with legal implications. It also provides a safe place for students to deal with their problems and resolve issues between victims and offenders.”
Tina Merali, ELL Learning Leader at Nelson Mandela High School
"Our ELL students said the sessions provided by PMAST were very informative and supportive. The sessions helped them learn skills that were new to them as they were adjusting to their new life in Canada. They feel they are able to consider multiple perspectives on issues because of the sessions provided… The students asked for more sessions in the future to follow up on what they had learned already. The facilitators were able to modify the sessions to fit everyone’s level of English as appropriate."
Elizabeth Bennett, Principal - Good Shepherd School, Airdrie, Alberta
“This 8 week workshop supported youth in understanding gender difference and their approaches to dealing with conflict and disputes. Practical skills were shared to help participants reduce bullying and tension in their social environments. The program builds respect, compassion, empathy and resiliency as life long skills. The YES Program provided significant learning for our students.”