Beautifully and Wonderfully Made is a 501-C3
(Tax Exempt) Charitable Organization
RITES OF PASSAGE
This program provides youth mentorship that encourages self-awareness, self-expression, sense of worth and positive peer relationships that will promote healthy personal, family and community-oriented growth.
Each workshop begins with a “The Passing of the Mic” exercise. An exercise designed to promote verbal expression. Each participant is allowed to and must verbalize their previous week’s activities by using appropriate eye contact and speaking in complete sentences.
Later, the facilitator introduces the topic for the week followed by a short lecture. Depending on the specific topic, the lecture may be followed by a group discussion whereby all must participate, whether by identifying with the issue at hand or by giving feedback to others. It also may be followed by a written assignment and/or live role-plays or group activities. Each session is concluded with the facilitator reinforcing the most important points of view. At the beginning and end of each meeting, one of the participants leads in the reciting of the group’s motto. This particular activity reinforces group cohesiveness and brotherhood/sisterhood.
Group Trips / Activities:
All group trips / activities are selected to provide both an educational and cultural awareness which will assist the members in their participation socially, emotionally and intellectually for passage into adulthood.
Graduation Ceremony:
The program will culminate with a ceremony in which all successful participants will be celebrated as having completed the process of acquiring the knowledge and appropriate behavior which goes along with young adulthood. The most enlightening and endearing moments of the ceremony are the personal testimonies by each participant. The participants will also create a picture collage of all trips/activities for parents and guest to observe.
STREET TALK
A group mentoring program designed to provide positive thinking, social and cultural acceptance and appropriate ways of communicating with others. Young adults who attend this program will be challenged to discuss controversial issues which may affect their school, family and community. With the use of guided group interaction and therapeutic activities, our teens are sure to become positive mentors to others. The group meets on a bi-weekly basis for 1.5 hours. There will also be selective cultural and educational trips provided for the participants.