Our Program
Resilience, Intentionality, Self-Discovery, and Empowerment
Rooting On Me, Inc. consists of a program that caters to helping our youth and families build healthy wellness practices, strong supports systems, resilience, and heighten their quality of life. Our volunteers, along with our program, will assist adolescents and families with more opportunities to engage with each other and grow in and outside their homes. We want to help decrease the worry of failure and challenge all individuals to break negative generational & behavior cycles to push themselves towards self sufficiency & success. In particularly we would like to decrease violence during periods of stress and build more mentally and emotionally stable individuals throughout Chicago and the surrounding areas. The importance of learning how to properly self care, communicate, cope, & overcome adversity will produce lasting change in underserved families and communities. The goal is to ultimately teach youth and parents lasting healthy, easily incorporated practices of taking an active role in protecting their own well-being and happiness.
Help Along The Way
Help Along the Way will provide information, activities, and community events to youth & families that spark positive conversations about self care, generational cycles/behaviors, and community activities/resources to use if mental health factors become too much to bear. This program will help teach techniques to build youth confidence & feelings of competence while giving parents tools to create safe, caring, & trusting relationships. By providing a place that promotes positive self-image, open communication, healthy relationship development & individuality we hope to foster more homes with self love, acceptance and growth. Our events give youth & parents more quality opportunities to create positive family learning, memories, emotional outlets, and encouragement of one another without inconsistent and unfair expectations.
What's included?​
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Seasonal giveaways
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Self Care Workshops/Fairs
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Mother/Daughter & Father/Son Dinners/Events
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Family Engagement Community Events
Plans for the Future
Roots to R.I.S.E. empowers youth to strengthen their roots in identity and values while rising through Resilience, Intentionality, Self-Discovery, and Empowerment to become confident, capable, and community-minded leaders. Roots to R.I.S.E. is a transformative youth development experience designed for middle and high school students to learn life skills through hands-on role play, guided group discussions, immersive exploration, and community impact projects.
What will be included?​
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Role Play & Real-Life Simulation
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Small & Peer Learning Group Discussions
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Exploration Activities
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Creative Expression
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Project-Based Learning
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