A BRAVE Course

A BRAVE Course teaches our students how to address the challenges they face growing up in our society. We ensure that our students are well-educated about violence, sexuality, relationships, substance abuse, addiction, dysfunctional to criminal behavior and communicable diseases. A BRAVE Course helps our students to live safe, healthy, economically productive lives.

A BRAVE COURSE encompasses violence prevention; healthy mind and body education; communications skills and peer resistance techniques; and understanding the media and how to use it, and economic skills. We teach a multi-faceted course including written and multi-media materials. This comprehensive approach for at-risk youth ensures that they have the tools to live safe, healthy, economically independent lives.


Our 2-hour, 4-hour and one-day workshops, or weekly courses on Safety, Health, understanding the media and how to use it, and economic skills cover:

• Safety awareness, danger assessment, verbal assertiveness and physical self-defense
• Developing healthy esteem and interpersonal skills necessary for healthy relationships
• Mental and physical healthy lifestyle skills
• Examining the impact of the media on their lives
• Examining the impact education has on employment and/or entrepreneurial opportunities
• Basic financial training from budgeting and saving, to managing a checkbook, to preparing their taxes
• The personal and economic responsibilities of starting a family
• Preparation for retirement

BRAVE People also offers:

• Counseling for our students who have been involved in street life, crime, gangs and violence
• A resource library of books, films and other reference and training materials
• Summer camps for at-risk youth

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