Youth Services » Ready4Roots

We Engage

We engage to tap into your emotional health

Our mentoring work with students in the developmental stages of their lives inspires future possibilities.

We Instill

We instill a passion and determination to be your authentic selves

Our Roots-Shops cultivate the building blocks of positive character, personal integrity and moral citizenship.

We Empower

We empower the you with I‘M READY MINDSET

We provide the tools that children and youth need to build confidence, foster self-advocacy and empower students to make a positive difference in their own lives and the lives of their families and communities..

Sampling of Trainings

Start Right - Stay Right Shops©

This training program focuses on the importance of academic achievement through affirmation, visualization and self-awareness. It is intended for students in Grades 1-6, but can be tailored to meet the needs of youth and young adults.

Character Building Boot Camp Shops©

During these interactive educational workshops students will tap into "who they are" and what makes them unique. Students will engage in positive activities that will focus on interpersonal skills, coping with life challenges, positive affirmations of "self", respecting self and others, as well as positive thinking, speaking, and acting.

Re-engaging The Disengaged
Student Shops©

Secondary students who are disengaged are the most vulnerable population of students and the staff to motivate, support and reconnect disengaged students in middle and high school.

Inside-Out Groups Shops©

This enrichment program addresses unhealthy images that impact the lives of youth and young adults. ROOTS visualization and exposure to new life experiences.

Child and Youth Development

6 KEY QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR TEAM

ROOTS-SHOPS The core focus of our ROOTS-Shops for youth is identifying, instilling and building resiliency in youth through weekly classroom work with students. Our Professional Development for adults within schools and school districts. focus on Team Building, Self-Awareness, Relational Dynamics and Empowerment.

Are You Concerned about underachievement in your schools?

The most important element in academia is the student/teacher relationship. ROOTS’ method of teacher training emphasizes culturally relative student-centric syntax as well as nurturing a classroom culture of high expectations. Our teacher strategies create a win-win-win classroom performance when—in the optimum arrangement—we work in the classroom, the teacher is a learning participant and together our synergies build a classroom community that breeds cooperation, discipline, dedication and a unified vision for success.

Would you like to build a better student /teacher relationship to improve student academic outcome?

Do you have disengaged students?

Disengaged secondary students are the most vulnerable student population in terms of academic performance and behavioral issues that propel student drop-out rates. ROOTS priority mission is to build practical skills with educators in mind to help them solve the process of reconnecting disengaged student in middle schools and high schools. Powered by our great passion for youth development, ROOTS trainers deliver creative and interactive training, strategic consulting and high-value mentoring.

Would you like to tap into building resilience in your students?

Students who can not get through the day without emotional outbursts and have developed a quitting spirit. Our intense trainings help students safely explore their feelings, face and conquer fears that are blocking success and positive self-image. Through this ROOTS program, students with special needs will be transformed into special students.

Would you like some winning Strategies to empower your child to Greatness?

Parents and intergral in youth development but face the daunting reports of reduced test scores and meager graduation rates, we will encourage and emphasize the parents’ strengths and irreplaceable contributions to student success. Not only will we uncover under recognized talents of parents, but we will also pinpoint strategies that parents can use to reveal the gifts and talents housed within our students. Parents will have a tool kit suitable for self reflection and appreciation as well as confidence builders for our students.

As a parent are your equiped to deal with the challenges of today's youth?

By developing soft skills, families will sharpen their skills to motivate, encourage and affirm our students. We will be assisting parents with empowering skills meaningful for disempowered students faced with issues of rejection and shame. We intend to arm parents with vocabulary and activities to recognize the assets of the student population and redirect damaging behaviors in order to achieve better outcomes. The trainings will focus on soft skill development, that result in higher academic achievement. In addition to trainings focusing on parents learning to affirm, appreciate and celebrate their students.

Child and Youth Development