Hope Rising Shasta is a federally funded project that CYP is proud to offer for free to Shasta County youth ages 12-19 and the adults surrounding them.

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GOALS:

to educate, equip, and empower youth to obtain relationship skills for school, love, life, and work

✔️social-emotional learning strategies

✔️communication

✔️conflict management

✔️tools to protect from sexual, drug, and substance abuse risks

✔️anger management

✔️healthy vs unhealthy

✔️self-regulation

✔️success sequencing for poverty prevention

✔️resisting coercion & sexual violence

✔️personality tests

✔️self-discovery

✔️goal setting

MEETING EDUCATIONAL NEEDS:

Evidence-based program, love notes 3.0, can meet many educational requirements

 What We Use:

An innovative, HOLISTIC, evidence-based programs

real essentials: starting point

Everything changes for kids as they approach their teenage years. These formative milestones can be overwhelming for both parents and their children. The REAL Essentials Starting Point curriculum equips educators and parents with lessons to jump-start conversation and develop foundational relationship skills in this new life stage. All lessons are inclusive, evidence based and medically accurate.

Activity based lessons prepare students to better understand and address:

• What makes students special as individuals and understand unique qualities in others

• Skills for establishing healthy friendships and strengthening personal character qualities

• How external influences like social media and advertising affect relationships

• Effective communication techniques, including how to understand and communicate and make healthy decisions

• Setting personal goals for the short-term and long-term future

• Physical and emotional changes that occur with body growth and development, including approachable ways to discuss hygiene

real essentials: advance

REAL Essentials Advance is the country’s leading relationship education curriculum. It is specifically designed to  teach young people skills for combating challenges they face in adolescence. Lesson content captivates the heart and directs students toward positive decision making. All lessons are welcoming, evidence based and medically accurate.

Activities prepare students to better understand and address:

• Their individual identity and how it impacts relationships

• How to recognize and respect differences in others

• Effective communication techniques for navigating conflict and expressing oneself

• How to develop healthy dating strategies and ideas for staying connected with good friends

• Safe social media guidelines and viewing advertisements through an accurate lens

• Creating vision and applying it to future dreams and success

• The benefits of commitment and marriage

• Developing leadership skills for gaining future employment and keeping a job

• Sex in the context of love and its effect on whole person health

Love notes 4.0

Unhealthy relationships, dating violence, and risky sexual behaviors are a serious threat to the well-being and futures of many young people. Love Notes 3.0 Sexual Risk Avoidance Adaptation Evidence-Based Program addresses these issues by building skills and knowledge for healthy relationships of all kinds: romantic, friendship, family, school, and work in the context of the Healthy Youth Act of 2017 that set the stage for SRA funding. In 13 lessons, youth learn more about themselves: how their past has shaped the present and how to make decisions on what they want for their own future. They learn what healthy relationships are and are not while building a set of skills for choosing friends and partners, and for developing and maintaining healthy relationships that do not involve sex, including evidence-based communication and conflict management skills. Parents and family connection activities offer conversation starters on healthy relationships and on the benefits of leaving sex out of their youthful relationships. Please note: the sample lesson is from the high school curriculum, and demonstrates the positive youth development and social-emotional approach this curriculum takes. For 6th-8th grade, a middle school adaptation of the curriculum is used. Not all of the activities are included in it, as only age-appropriate activities are delivered, and with sensitivity to students’ needs and backgrounds at each program site/school.