Programs
Our programs lean into The Chaos Theory by promoting The Butterfly Effect. We help our students and adults to celebrate their slight changes, because they can result in life-changing differences. An exceedingly slight change in one's life can create a significant positive outcome.
Current Programs
If you are interested in participating in one of our programs, please click the button below to download and complete the waiver form.
#JusttheFacts
Become an AMBASSADOR!!
This is a homebased project between students and their parents. Creating a space for students and their parents to have REAL conversations about the effects of substance use.
Get creative with a 1–2-minute educational PSA video that may help encourage your peers to become more knowledgeable on the science of drugs.
#JustTheFacts is a social media campaign challenging Hendricks County youth and teens to step-up and take the lead on starting the conversation on the dangers of drug use.
Parents, here's how your teens can get involved?
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Complete a 'contact' form and waiver Form (below)
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Schedule a meeting with our project manager, to discuss a research project. Students would you like to record your PSA in recording studio, on your phone or make a Poster board? Share them through social media, with family, friends, administrators and teachers.
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Back to school gift cards are given to each student who participates!
Click the link to view student PSA videos from Round 1
Emmanuel and Isaac
Kyera S.
90 Miles Exit Right
This program is designed to help create a positive place where today’s teens and their families can get back on track.
90 Miles “Exit Right is a 5-week workshop where teens and their families can learn valuable self-awareness skills.
Here's an outline of our 5-week program:
Week 1: Learning the importance of Self- Awareness
Week 2: Personal S.W.O.T Analysis + Vision Board
Week 3: Goal Setting w/ S.M.A.R.T. + Vision Board
Week 4: Self-Esteem + Vision Board
Week 5: Taking Control – Graduation Day
This program is delivered through a metaphor of each participant taking a trip to a destination and not knowing the address to enter into their navigation system. If you don't have a plan, you can't reach your destination! Understanding the importance of setting goals.
(Workshops are 60 minutes on Zoom or on location throughout Indiana).
Hendricks CO. Healthy Hygiene Habits
This program is an innovative mobile educational program that focuses on providing hygiene resources for girls and boys ages 8-18 years old in Hendricks County. It is designed to help remove barriers and improve personal hygiene habits. The goal of this program is to help participants develop a strong sense of self-reliance and self- confidence, reduce school absenteeism.
“Period poverty” is defined by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials as the lack of access to sanitary products, appropriate facilities (securable restrooms with running water), and medically sound, unbiased information about menstruation.
The Miles We Walk was awarded a grant from The Hendricks County Commissioners and Council to distribute 500 Hygiene Packs throughout Hendricks County. Hygiene workshops and grooming packs are free to all youth and adults.
Pathfinders
The overall goal of Pathfinder’s Leadership Development Program is designed to re-tool and re-skill unemployed and under-employed adults who need to acquire a new skill or be retrained in order to enter/re-enter the job market. Our program prepares individuals for life’s journey by developing a roadmap for success. We focus on the whole person! We help with life skills that will assist now and in the future. Emphasis is placed on self-development, positive work habits and healthy attitudes, as well as the acquisition of entrepreneurial, interpersonal and communication skills (Life Skills).
The workshops are designed to equip each person with new and transferable skills and develop the necessary competencies required to effectively function in the job market. Participants will be challenged to carefully assess their current situation, establish short and long-term goals, establish needs, and receive direction in controlling their own destinies. Along with this they will receive the fundamental skills to advance and sustain a positive lifestyle.