We Are S.E.E.D.S. Inc.

Self Enrichment Program | Educational Enrichment Program | Social Enrichment Program | Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Program

Self Enrichment Program

Our Self Enrichment Program is designed to empower young females ages 11-18 to understand the value of self-worth, embrace self-development as a life long journey and reward, desire positive self-esteem, cultivate self-identity and have a consciousness for self-awareness. The following topics are covered:

    Everything Begins With Me

  1. Self-Esteem (controlling my emotions helps to avoid conflict)
  2. Self-Awareness
  3. Self-Identity

    Contrary to popular belief – you DO need others to be successful

  1. Family
  2. Peers
  3. Teachers, Business Owners, Community and the “Outside World”

    Etiquette, it does matter! The way you dress determines the way you are addressed

  1. Family
  2. School
  3. Public Peers

    Finances: It’s Not All About the Benjamins, Baby; it’s about how you maintain the Benjamins!

  1. The Sources of Income
  2. Income/Financial Management (Banks, Checking Accounts, IRA, Stocks)
  3. Entrepreneurship
  4. What matters the most short-term financial goals or long term financial goals

    Responsibility: You Must play a role in life

  1. Your life
  2. Your Family
  3. Your Community
  4. Your Legacy

Our curriculum consists of workshops, rap sessions, video and written modules. Workshop topics include Self-Esteem:

  1. “Preparing girls to be confident through self-awareness”
  2. “The way you dress determines the way you are addressed.”

Our aim is to develop future leaders!

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Educational Enrichment Program

 

Our Educational Enrichment Program encourages education, on all fronts, as a life-long process. It seeks to develop the whole person through academic, financial and professional literacy. Girls are provided with mentorship in vocabulary expansion, reading comprehension via a book club setting, individualized Math and English tutoring, computer instructional, resume building, job readiness and teenage pregnancy prevention, intervention and education.

  1. Tutoring Tuesdays: Vocabulary Expansion, Book Club (Reading Comprehension: 1 book per quarter for a total of 4 books), Tutoring (Math and English) and 1 Monthly Educational Field Trip.
  2. Computer Literacy: Using the Mavis Beacon Software (Basic and Advanced)
  3. Job Readiness: Resume Building and Job Fairs
  4. Career Development: Forums and College Tours
  5. Teen Pregnancy Prevention: A Parenting Simulation
  6. Financial Literacy: Trips: Banks (Opening Accounts) and the Stock Exchange Workshops: Bank Books, Balancing a Check Book, Credit Cards, Introduction to the Stock Market, Trust Funds, Savings Bonds

Teens are empowered to develop an interest in school, attend school, and embrace education as a life-long process. Program goals are accomplished through interactive workshops (“Get Hooked on Books and Not Boo”), games (“Jeopardy with your Intellect”), Parenting Simulations and Education, etc…

With this program, our girls are better informed and educated so they can make better choices!

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Leadership Enrichment Program

Our Leadership Enrichment Program is designed to develop the champion in each of our mentees. While Peer Pressure is on the rise, often lending itself to destructive behavior; We Are S.E.E.D.S. Inc. has found a suitable avenue to curtail the negative energy. Our goal is to empower young ladies to get involved and taking Leadership roles in planning activities that matter most to them. Therefore, being positive role models for their peers. Girl Power is the Name!

    Our expected results are Young LADIES becoming:

  1. Peer Mentors
  2. Event Planers: Organizing volunteer efforts and social activities (Camping, Feeding the Homeless, Children’s Hospital)
  3. A Blue Print for Teen Internships
  4. A Positive Voice (via a monthly Publication)

Our aim is to develop future leaders!

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Social Enrichment Program

Our Social Enrichment Program is designed to provide girls with activities that will foster social growth and development, community teamwork, social etiquette and an avenue to broaden the horizons of urban youth. Our goal is to expose them to safe and productive environments that will encourage them to desire more in life without limiting themselves to their neighborhoods.

    Social Enrichment Program Activities include:

  1. Annual Cultural Trip: Out-of-State (Social Interaction)
  2. Camping Trip (Organized by Girl Power)
  3. Children’s Hospital Visit (Organized by Girl Power)
  4. Fashion/Flair/Fitness (Back to School Educational Event)
  5. Feeding the Homeless (Organized by Girl Power)
  6. Mural Arts Tour (Educational)
  7. Nursing Home Visit: Green Acres (Volunteerism)
  8. Skating Party (Social Interaction)
  9. Topic Area Forums in Collaboration with State Representative Cherelle L. Parker (Self and Professional Development)

We endeavor to broaden our mentees’ horizons; by exposing them to diverse cultures and environments; showing them more than home, school, and the corner store!

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Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Program

Our Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program was developed to help girls make better choices by addressing uneducated decisions, ill-informed behaviors and the lack of understanding surrounding the responsibility of parenting at a young age.

The Curriculum is facilitated through a Parenting Simulation Program (Reality Works). Each girl takes a pre-programmed baby home, programmed to desire levels (feeding, changing, rocking) of care during certain times of the day. Handling and care giving is monitored and reported back. The next phase of the simulation consists of financial realities presented with having a newborn baby. In our workshops, budgeting is done with the girls (they are given a list of items that need to be purchased outside of what the “Hospital” gives) and there are follow-up discussions, etc. Additionally, we walk them through the nurturing aspect of caring for a child: follow-up discussions regarding the time commitment and the feedback: Generally, “they weren’t able to do extra-curricular activities because the baby’s needs or their lack of support”. Finally, we educate our mentees on the proper way to care for a child and what implications that has or doesn’t have on caring for themselves.

This is a 4 week program (involving parent and child participation, guest lectures, literature dissemination, and field trips).

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