JIPP’s positive change in students’ behavior, academic performance, and family interactions and build psychosocial and emotional coping skills. The first six-weeks module of JIPP is resistance, a biobehavioral physical training curriculum designed to reduce resistance to psychological and behavioral change. The second six-week module is empowerment. During empowerment and continuing into the final six-week module, the officers continue to be involved by teaching public speaking and job interviewing classes as well as the "Pillars of Success" study, which have lessons in trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship (Wilson, Lipsey, & Derzon, 2003). The second six-week Ripple Effects course is designed to advance leadership skills and address social responsibility. It touches on the main practical problem-solving and conflict resolution skills as a means to channeling frustration, anger, or depression into activism and civic participation. JIPP is a whole child program, parents must get involved in an 18week psychoeducational parenting class. The parents enter on a parallel process of learning and positive change with their children. The class is created to serve families facing today's challenges of raising children in a nonviolent and nurturing way. This goal is completed by teaching the parents new, useful parenting skills in an atmosphere of respect, love, and compassion. The youth Empowerment and Support Program (YES-P), a theoretically-based program designed to decreased drug use and strengthen connections to school in at-risk youth living in high- risk environments. The YES-P include several interventions, such as providing mentor support and social skills training: growing a positive peer culture; and developing youth in
JIPP’s positive change in students’ behavior, academic performance, and family interactions and build psychosocial and emotional coping skills. The first six-weeks module of JIPP is resistance, a biobehavioral physical training curriculum designed to reduce resistance to psychological and behavioral change. The second six-week module is empowerment. During empowerment and continuing into the final six-week module, the officers continue to be involved by teaching public speaking and job interviewing classes as well as the "Pillars of Success" study, which have lessons in trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship (Wilson, Lipsey, & Derzon, 2003). The second six-week Ripple Effects course is designed to advance leadership skills and address social responsibility. It touches on the main practical problem-solving and conflict resolution skills as a means to channeling frustration, anger, or depression into activism and civic participation. JIPP is a whole child program, parents must get involved in an 18week psychoeducational parenting class. The parents enter on a parallel process of learning and positive change with their children. The class is created to serve families facing today's challenges of raising children in a nonviolent and nurturing way. This goal is completed by teaching the parents new, useful parenting skills in an atmosphere of respect, love, and compassion. The youth Empowerment and Support Program (YES-P), a theoretically-based program designed to decreased drug use and strengthen connections to school in at-risk youth living in high- risk environments. The YES-P include several interventions, such as providing mentor support and social skills training: growing a positive peer culture; and developing youth in