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Diversity in Detroit
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Diversity in Detroit
Resilience
Coping and Stress
Empowerment Project
Detroit Intiative: EPIC Program
at Western International High School in Southwest Detroit
Goals and Results
- The Start
- involved students on ideas for project
- Revealed the hardships and struggles that many of the students face
- Physical disabilities, victims of bullying, stressful home lives
- Weak support systems
- What We Did
- Taught a lesson on Coping Skills and Stress Management
- What coping skills are
- Why are they important for managing stress in a healthy way
- Situations where coping skills can be used
- Diverse examples of positive coping techniques
- Why it’s harmful to rely on negative coping skills
- Long Term Goals
- With managed stress, we hope the students will be able to concentrate more on school work and stay motivated to attain their future goals
- Avoid them getting caught up in their environmental hardships and negative emotions
- Achieve academic success, higher GPAs, prepare for college
- Short Term Goals
- Students will have a better understanding of positive coping skills available
- Will understand how to use them to relieve stress
- Will use the coping skills in time of stress
- Will experience stress less often during the day/week
- Will consider their stress less severe/impactful
- Their stress will have less of an effect on school performance
- People's Community Serives of Metropolitan Detroit
- EPIC mentoring program
- Dinner
- Ice breakers
- lessons on career exploration
- scholarships, resumes, portfolios, finances, etc.
- activty related to lesson
- homework tutoring
- college tours
- Majority Hispanic/ Latino population
- Neighborhood Hunt
- Community Center
- Library
- WIHS
- day/night classes
- many resources
- scholarship room, olympic size poor, black box theatre, dance studios
Materials/Activities
- Curriculum
- Bull’s eye worksheet
- Journals and journaling topics worksheet
- Meditation
- Pre/Post Survey
- Results
- Small sample size
- Written responses differed from verbal
- Questionnaires may not accurately represent students knowledge
Strengths Based Approach
Direct Influence
- Making lesson plans
- Working with Adolescents
- Community Engagment
- Tutoring/Teaching Experience
- Evaluation Experience
- Relationships in new city
- Mentorship
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