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YEYS is an acronym for Youths Empowering Youths. The Plan is simple.
The YEYS Project
RYDEUS Men’s Club would work with youths in secondary schools throughout the country, to assist fifth-formers and their sport teams in three key areas: (1) Improving Academic Performance – Basic Preparation for CSEC, (2) Basic Preparation for the Workplace – Finding and Keeping a Job, and (3) Improving Personal Wellbeing. Thereafter, RMC Members would support the youths in setting up structures within respective communities which would allow them to serve as resources to their fellow peers, as well as addressing wellbeing needs of members of their communities.
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Courses
The Improving Academic Performance course aims to support young persons in their overall preparation for CSEC, or to generally improve their school work. With this course, as a mentor, you would assist the student with developing the characteristics of successful learners, applying proven principles of learning, reading more effectively, taking better notes, engaging in better exam preparation, and generally doing better taking the test.
The Basic Preparation for the Workplace course aims to support young persons in their efforts to find and keep a job. With this course, as a mentor, you would assist the young person in terms of knowing where to find a job, how to apply, how to do well at a job interview, what are the behaviors frowned upon by employers, and what are those behaviors likely to cause them to pass their probation, and to be seen as an asset to their employer.
The Improving Personal Wellbeing course is intended for adults. It is one of the rewards which we have made available for our RAYVErs (i.e. those of us Rendering Assistance to the Youth through Voluntary Efforts). We’ve recognized that this is an area of struggle for many people. With this course, you get to create your own definition of Wellbeing, and would be hand-held and taken through the paces of creating the life you want, focusing on life’s various dimensions including spiritual, physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
Becoming a RAYVEr is simple. Complete the Registration Form, and click submit. Once your enrollment is approved, you would gain immediate access to all courses, and you would also be connected to an additional reward of your choice.
What if our criminal justice system might be doing a little too much harm to our youths? What if custody at our nation’s youth facilities and other spaces may be coming with many detrimental effects? What if we can provide our youths with a realistic preview of the future they are creating for themselves, when they engage in offending behavior? In this workshop, participants would be provided with opportunities to discuss what they consider to be “The Good Life;” as well as what happens when youth come into contact with the criminal justice system, and be able to talk our youths through a comparison of the life they would prefer to have, versus the life of an offender.
This workshop is a little different. It’s not just about our youth. This workshop is presented in a manner that focuses on anger within the household: that is, parent-to-parent, parent-to-child(ren), or child(ren)-to-parent, and even amongst siblings. There are three main pieces to the workshop: (1) to get a better understanding of anger and its effects on our behaviors, our overall wellbeing, and its long-term effects
on our children’s emotional development; (2) to provide an understanding of conflict; and (3) to provide some useful techniques for effectively managing conflict, and firmly confronting issues without anger. It is my hope that this workshop can transform your relationships at all levels – for the better.
Too many of our young men and women are unaware of the consequences of experimenting or otherwise getting involved with substance use and abuse. Too many of our youths are slipping through
the cracks, giving into peer pressure or their depressive states, and before you know it, they’re on the slippery slope. In this workshop we look at avoiding substance use disorder. We aim to prepare mentors/parents to be able to explain what is a substance and differentiate amongst substance use, misuse, disorder, abuse, and addiction. Participants would also be able to discuss the progression of
substance use disorder; detect its signs and symptoms; discuss the negative effects of different substances; and discuss means of preventing/treating with substance use disorder.