wepa's
current
programs
Positive Parenting Program® - Level 3 Discussion Group is a parent intervention and counseling certificate program, which helps parents learn strategies to promote social competence and self-regulation in children as well as decrease problem behavior. Parents set personal goals, develop their own parenting plans, and learn to use positive parenting strategies to encourage children to learn the skills and competencies they need.Level 3 Triple P Discussion Group is designed as brief, early intervention strategies to be offered to parents, caregivers, and those in the community in regular contact with families of children. This includes within settings such as health care clinics, faith-based institutions, schools, early childhood education programs, childcare facilities, community libraries, family court, judicial agencies, Administration for Children Services (ACS) treatment and recovery centers, and other providers in various family-serving community agencies.
Primary Care Triple P, and Primary Care Teen Triple P:
A brief face-to-face or telephone intervention with a provider. Approximately four individual consultations lasting between 15 and 30 minutes. Uses tip sheets and Positive Parenting Booklets to reinforce strategies. Primary Care Triple P is for parents of children from birth to 12 years. And Primary Care Teen Triple P is ideal for parents of youth from adolescents to 16 years.
Triple P Discussion Groups 0-12 and Teen:
Two-hour small group sessions, targeting a specific problem behavior or issue. Each discussion group can be taken as a stand-alone session or as part of a series. There are five topics for parents of children under 12 (Dealing with disobedience; Managing fighting and aggression; Developing good bedtime routines; Hassle-free shopping with children, and Hassle-free mealtimes with children). And there are four topics for parents of 12 –16 year olds (Coping with teenagers' emotions; Reducing family conflict; Getting teenagers to cooperate; and Building teenagers' survival skills).
Teen Intervene is an evidence based program that educates, supports and guides teens and parents when the risk of drug or alcohol abuse is present. This program has proven to be effective for youth ages 12-19 experiencing mild to moderate problems with substance misuse or problem gambling.
Teen Intervene is designed to help the teen:
- Decide for himself/herself the pros and cons of use
- Identify the reasons why he or she uses
- Learn new skills that promote healthier behaviors
- Take responsibility for self-change
Support for Students Exposed to Trauma - a program for youth in middle school through early high school, ages 10-16. The program can be administered in youth servicing environments such as after school centers, churches, mosques and OASAS affiliated organizations focusing on children who have been exposed to family, community, or school trauma.
LifeSkills Training is a middle school substance abuse prevention program that teaches students social and self-management skills, including skills in resisting peer and media pressure to smoke, drink, or use drugs; and informs students of the immediate consequences of substance abuse.
The curriculum can be taught in school, community organizations, faith-based classroom settings, summer school and after-school settings that mirror a typical classroom. LifeSkills can be implemented in any subject area and can be taught across multiple subjects.
The training helps youth to thrive and flourish through:
- Creating healthy alternatives to risky behavior
- Helping them build a tool-kit to effectively navigate the difficult terrain of peer pressure
- Building confidence and self esteem
- Empowering them to effectively cope with anxiety
- Increasing their knowledge of the immediate consequences of substance abuse
- Enhancing cognitive and behavioral competency to reduce and prevent a variety of health risk behaviors
- Increasing the likelihood of successfully completing high school and secondary education
WEPA campaigns are ongoing community engagement, prevention and intervention processes. They are designed to engage, equip and empower the community to actively engage in issues that have been identified as social concerns and risks that create disparity and threaten the health and wellness of youth and families in the community. Our campaigns inform our continual engagement for creating change and surface valuable information from within our communities as we assess the impact and effectiveness of the implementations.
An evidence-based campaign that engages youth, local precincts and merchants in a proactive initiative to keep youth safe from underage drinking. The process utilizes retail store based engagement using attention-grabbing stickers to draw attention to the risks inherent in underage drinking. Sticker Shock boldly invites merchants, parents and other adults and older peers to commit to keeping our youth safe through compliance with underage drinking policies.
An opioid response campaign to eliminate the abuse of prescription drugs (often found in unused portions in medicine cabinets in our home) and alert parents to safe disposal of controlled substances. Deterra bags and safe disposal information postcards are distributed to pharmacists and prescribers encouraging the safe disposal of prescription drugs.
WEPA’s media and billboard campaign highlights the developing brain, and informs the community of the cognitive and health dangers of Cannabis use by adolescents.
Our WEPA Podcast Interview series navigates issues of prevention and discusses issues that put families and youth at
risk of substance abuse. We also share what families, friends and communities can do to prevent the probability of drug misuse and addiction. The goal of the podcast is to share that individuals do not have to face the challenges discussed in our videos alone. We show that we love hearing from viewers, and that we would love to help.
Our active social media presence is on Instagram @jubilantwepa. Whether inspiring quotes, interview snippets, community testimonials, humor or memes on sobriety and addition, we keep the community engaged, informed and
educated.
WEPA was birthed and founded by the Groundswell Group Inc., also based in the Bronx, New York. You can see the many other positive, social-impacting projects our founding organization is involved with, plus workshops and programs it offers, on Instagram @groundswellgroupinc or on their website at www.groundswellgroup.org.
A social change intervention; which utilizes photography and narrative to enable communities to represent themselves and tell their own story or focus a community around common concerns. Photovoice equips and empowers community engagement and invites elected officials to the community table for a collaborative change process.
Celebrates the power of our stories, perceptions and aspirations to bond us together to envision and co-create strong, vibrant communities where we live, learn, work and play. This project fosters opportunities for participants to learn together through sharing our stories in the shelter of one
another. We build trust, mutual support and participants are empowered by the collective wisdom and experiences of others to build strong, vibrant communities around our shared values, concerns and aspirations.
Through our mural projects, we use art as a collective community voice to speak to change, address social issues, challenge inequalities or injustices, and beautify underserved neighborhoods.
Crafting prevention messages from the perspective of our youth, is at the core of this collaborative initiative. WEPA’s forums, listening circles and other assessment tools revealed that youth don’t think adults are communicating to them in ways they value. In response, we want to hear our youth and learn youth-relevant ways to share the power of prevention. Our PSA is a learning collaborative that fosters intergenerational communication.
You are the WE in WEPA. Please join us! If you are interested in
any of our programming, would like to join the coalition, or suggest other campaigns for us to be involved in, please email us at info.wepabronx@gmail.com or give us a call at 347-852-5939.
