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2 HEARTS ACADEMY
• Serving at risk youth from 15-20 years old
• Providing credits to get back on track for
graduation
• Providing a small, safe environment for
learning the skills necessary to become
successful
• Giving students who have dropped out or
are at risk for dropping out, another option
Target Group
Ages 15-18
Young adults
At Risk Youth
Ages 19-25
• Students on probation
• Students dropped from
regular high school
• Students in Foster Care
• Students exiting
treatment facilities
• Students exiting detention
centers
• Young adults in crisis
• Young adults needing
training and support
Our Goal
• The goal of this Academy is to take capable but
troubled youth and turn them around so that they
can get an education, become life long learners,
become positive leaders, become productive
members of the community, become job prepared,
healthy young men and women ready to meet their
futures with enough practical tools to be successful
throughout their lives.
Benefits to
Community
Service Learning projects
Less crime and violence
Less drug/alcohol
addictions
Less money spent at
This stage compared
to costs to community if
Students are not
successful
More prepared
Ethical
Work force
Focus
 Education
 Health
 Psychology
 Life Skills
 Human development
 English/writing/
Literature
 Art
 Civics
• Community
Cooperation
• Life long learning
• Positive, healthy life
choices
• Citizenship
• Anti-violence
• Addiction awareness
• Restorative justice
Phase four
Young Adult classes
Phase three
Follow-up Program
Phase two
Full time day school
One year intensive program
Phase one
Collaboration with the Poudre School District and other agencies
to identify students
Enroll students in Academy
Phase One
• Collaboration with School district to identify
students for this program
• Collaboration with Judicial system to team with
probation officers with legally involved students
• Collaboration with area businesses to provide
computers and support, job shadowing,
• Connections with businesses to provide
internship/community service projects
• Collaboration with parents of students to
reconnect in a positive way with the school
system and support them as role models
Phase Two
• Full time all day school 25-35 students
• One year intensive program that transitions them back into an
appropriate setting i.e. regular or alternative high school, college,
community college, career training, or work
• High School Credits/ certification of completion
• Health, Psychology, Life Skills, English
• Advance program
• Groups
• Community projects
• Career skill building
• Emotional intelligence training
• Affect Skills training
• Parent training program
To name a few
Phase Three
• Follow up program for former students
• Offered twice a week as needed to offer
support and continued education
• Opportunity to volunteer at school as
alumni
• Become role models for younger students
• Support groups for former students and
parents
• Connecting healthy social circles
Phase Four
• Classes for young adults based on need
• Health, wellness, parenting, human
development, writing, life skills,
communication skills
• Support groups
• Free educational, emotional support for
addiction recovery
• Community connections
• Restorative justice
Benefits to School District
Increase in
Hispanic
achievement
Cost effective
program
Increase in
Graduation
rate
Decrease in
drop out rate
Equip
Teachers
with tools
to retain
students
Fort Collins
Hispanic
Community
Larimer County
Probation
Department
Larimer County
Sheriff
Department
Larimer County
Human Services
Department
Fort Collins
Merchant
community
Projected
Partnerships
Fort Collins
Police
Department
Front Range
Community
College
Parents of
students
Poudre School
District
CSU
Violence Prevention
Connecting community with at risk youth in
positive circumstances give students ownership
of their surroundings. The longer a student stays
in school and receives educational information,
practices healthy choices, learns to problem
solve effectively and matures emotionally, the
less likely they will be to commit acts of violence.
Small, safe learning environments provide an
opportunity for at risk youth to have a second
chance and practice the skills they will need
when they are on their own.
Units of Instruction
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Units of Instruction
Oppression
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Gandhi
Non violence education
Leadership education
City of Joy
Night
Schindler’s list
Holocaust speakers/CSU field trip
Malcolm X
Fried Green Tomatoes
Amistad
Research/power point presentations on--oppression in our current times
Body Systems
- Brain
- Circulatory
- Muscular
- Vascular
- Skeletal
- Reproductive
- Comprehensive Sex Education
- Power point from Weld County Health
- Teen parent speakers
- HPV cancer survivor speakers
- Goal setting for healthy, safe choices
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Human Development
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Dysfunctional family systems
Addiction models
Recovery models
Physiological impacts of chemical ingestions
Smoking cessation
Drinking and driving
Alive @ 25
Speakers
Community resources
Laws / Consequences of drug/alcohol abuse
Jail video/speakers/ tours
Stages of human development in depth
Stages of human social development
Stages of human moral development
Parenting skills for each stage of development
Baby project
Book buddies with 3& 4 year preschoolers
Recovering and restoring lost stages of development
Critical Skills
- Personality inventory
- Aptitude inventories
- Learning styles
- Goal setting
- Life Style paper
- Job Skill training
- Job interviews
- Job Shadowing
- Finance Project
- Ethics as an employee
-Character 1st Program
- Character 1st speakers
- Work ethics
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Social Justice
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- Suicide education/Resources
Communication Skills Training
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-Sending and receiving messages
- Communication process
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Social work
Foster homes
Child Abuse
Sexual Abuse
Dangerous relationships
Domestic Violence
- Physiological aspects of speaking
- Finding your voice/ confidence
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Presentations
Group dynamics
Leading group
Building a solid argument
Delivery of a speech
Practice, Practice, Practice
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Critical Thinking
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Developing problem solving skills
Practicing those skills
Analytical education
Weighing choices and consequences
Discovering the arts
Inspiration education
Experimenting with different art forms
Field trips to see art/music
Creating an art project to give back to the school for future
students to appreciate
Practicing art once at least once a week for the pure enjoyment
of it
Community Connections
- The power of Restorative Justice
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Psychology and its impact
- Mental health education
- Psychological disorders
- Understanding human behavior
- Coping mechanisms
- PTSD
- Trauma
- Neuroscience and behavior
- Sensations/perceptions
- Biological clock systems/sleep patterns
- Operant conditioning
-Principles to improve self control
- Memory
- Therapeutic approaches
- Speakers living with disorders, therapists
- Power point presentation on any one of these topics in depth
How will they achieve this?
• Students will be reading, writing, composing
technical projects through research, designing
graphics, adding audio, calling on the phone to set
up speakers and arrange trips, they will be greeting
guests, introducing themselves to guests and
thanking those who have helped. They will be
practicing handling mistakes, miscommunication,
manners, chores, developing student climate, norm
keeping, respecting boundaries, empathy and
consideration for others, responsibility and
ownership of themselves and their environment.