Adults in the Making

The AIM Program works with students around developing skills for healthy relationships, pregnancy and parenting.  We recognize the pressures, influences and confusion teens experience and work with them to help them make positive decisions and keep themselves on track for having a healthy and productive life.  

The AIM Program provides a variety of services to students in our schools:

In groups or individual sessions we provide information on “Abstinence, A Safe Choice," and “Healthy Relationships". 

For those who are parenting, new parenthood demands tremendous maturation and responsibility.  Families face emotionally charged and unexpected challenges.  We work with expectant teen mothers, fathers and their families and provide crisis intervention services when needed.  We are experts at helping families through these difficult times and are often able to make referrals to outside agencies.  We work with individuals, small support groups of students and family groups. The option of adoption is discussed with every student that will be a parent.

In the support groups we cover a variety of topics.  We go over nutrition and health issues, including drug, alcohol and tobacco education.  We discuss living up to changing roles and responsibilities, including making academics an on-going priority.  We cover strategies for time management because that becomes a very important skill.  We urge students to learn to be advocates for themselves and to use good decision making skills. We teach parenting skills.  We emphasize the importance of obtaining medical services and caring for themselves.  And, we provide a wealth of resource agencies.

In individual sessions we touch on career decisions, personal direction, interpersonal skills including communication, stress management, problem solving, conflict resolution, coping and peer pressure).   Any issues that surface in group that may warrant individual attention would be addressed one on one.  Short term grief counseling is available for any student dealing with loss,

Abstinence and Healthy Relationships continue to be important discussions in a world where role models and the media can be negative, driving forces.