CENCAL MENTORING ACADEMY General Curriculum

1ST EDITION 2015 BY: MICHAEL DEJUAREZ

CENCAL MENTOR SUPERVISOR

Vision Statement:

To be a positive influence in the life of every student we

serve by stressing the four cornerstones of a successful

person and a successful life:

1. Love

2. Honor

3. Respect

4. A.ccou nta b i I itv '

Mission Statement:

Our mission is to serve at-risk children, teens and

students in Central California by making a positive,

measurable and lasting impact upon their lives

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OVERVIEW OF CIRRICULUM

• SESSION ONE: BUILDING TRUST & PERSONAL MOTIVATION

Cen Cal Mentoring will engage, implement and empower the concept

of trust, support and motivation with students throughout this session.

The foundation of trust is established combined with the mentoring

caring eyes support of the students' academic, personal and behavioral

goals for the school year.

• SESSION TWO: SOCIAL EFFECTS & PERSONAL AWARENESS

Cen Cal Mentoring will promote awareness while engaging the personal

responsibility of the social effects on academics and personal reflection

involving peers and the influence factor on campus culture and the

concept of change and not conformism with all students.

• SESSION THREE: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, WORK &

BEHAVIORAL ETHICS

Cen Cal Mentoring will introduce and appoint students to evolve within

changing cycle models and the positive thinking required to sustain the

personal efforts within academics and personal growth. Students will

learn the importance of ethics & maintenance in academics & their

personal lives.

• SESSION FOUR: MAINTAINING FOCUS

Cen Cal Mentoring will promote awareness and provide a continuum of

support of the personal responsibility and focus required to succeed on

and off the campus. This session is used intentionally before the

Winter break to ensure the modifications and focus of the students'

position is sustainable and resilient.

• SESSION FIVE: PERSONAL & SOCIAL WELLNESS

Cen Cal Mentoring will strategically promote and highlight the

importance of upkeep and finishing strong within academics and

well ness both personal and social. The emphasis this session is on

maintenance and the personal responsibility to ensure success. The

concept and support is used upon returning from Winter break.

• SESSION SIX: REFLECTIVE MODIFICATION & MAINTAINING

CHARACTER GOALS

Cen Cal mentoring will provide an awareness and implementation of

the modifications and change each student has made throughout the

year and the goals to continue those efforts on and off campus.

Students will learn team building concepts and the importance of

leadership influence they have and must work to continue to grow at

any stage of change and situation.

CEN CAL MENTORING OUTLINE OF CIRRICULUM

26 Weeks of Core Content

• SESSION ONE: BUILDING TRUST & PERSONAL MOTIVATION

1. Trust

2. Healthy Support Systems

3. Education

4. Mentoring & Coaching

5. Motivation

• SESSION TWO: SOCIAL EFFECTS & PERSONAL AWARENESS

6. Friendships & Relationships

7. Gangs

8. Violence Awareness

9. Stages of Change

• SESSION THREE: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, WORK &

BEHAVIORAL ETHICS

10. Thinking & Behavior Cycles

11. Roadblocks to Healthy Thinking

12. Feelings, Thoughts & Mindtraps

13. Communication Styles

14. Communication Roadblocks

• SESSION FOUR: MAINTAINING FOCUS

15. The Art of Self-Motivation

16. Effective Refusals & Triggers

17. Staying Motivated

• SESSION FIVE: PERSONAL & SOCIAL WELLNESS

18. Finishing Strong

19. Aggression Cycle

20. Understanding Anger

21. Anger in Relationships

22. Repairing Relationships

• SESSION SIX: REFLECTIVE MODIFICATION & MAINTAINING

CHARACTER GOALS

23. Taking Care of Yourself

24. Work & Recovery

25. Teambuilding

26. How to Manage Success

26 WEEK SYNOPSIS OUTLINE

Week One: TRUST

Students will learn how to interact with others while establishing trust in a

personal, social and mentoring concept. The emphasis will be within the

boundaries of academic and mentoring relationships that promote assurance &

confidence of the student's goals for the school year.

Week Two: Healthy Support Systems

Students will learn the examples of various supportive systems within the

academic, mentoring and general life applications. The emphasis will be

promoting awareness and opportunity to absorb support on and off campus.

Week Three: Education

Students will learn the educational & academic responsibility directly in

significance to each student and their current position. Students will set short &

long term goals that are ideal to the position and expectations of academic

strength & success.

Week Four: Mentoring & Coaching

Students will be introduced to the mentoring and coaching concept within the

Cen Cal Mentoring caring eyes concept. Students will engage with mentors and

establish ways and means of strategic support and accountability.

Week Five: Motivation

Students will learn the definition & importance of motivation directly associated

with personal disciplines. Students will learn the process of success and

maintenance of the building blocks & dynamics to motivation.

Week Six: Friendships and Relationships

Students will learn to recognize the core values of relationships and their direct

effects on social & campus cultures. Students will establish relational awareness

and prioritization to selecting relationships.

Week Seven: Gangs

Students will learn to recognize the truth, reality & consequences of being

involved with gangs. Students will learn the various levels of association &

involvement on and off campus.

Week Eight: Violence Awareness

Students will learn the origin, effects and outcomes associate

personally, familial, socially and economically. Students will

and intervention models to violence reduction.

Week Nine: Stages of Change

Students will learn the various stages of change within human development,

modifications of behaviors and the decision making process. Students will identify

their current stage of change and the importance to avoid maladaptive behavior

leading to the reduction of personal growth.

Week Ten: Thinking & Behavioral Cycles

Students will learn the cycles associated with thinking and behavior. Students

will engage in concepts relative to thinking patterns and behavioral cycles that

promote or support personal growth, success in academic and social

environments.

Week Eleven: Roadblocks to Healthy Thinking

Students will learn to identify the roadblocks and negative ways of thinking that

do not promote healthy rational. Students will engage in concepts relative to

thinking patterns and behavioral cycles that DO NOT promote or support personal

growth, success in academic and social environments.

Week Twelve: Feelings, Thought & Mind Traps

Students will learn the design and significance of feelings, thoughts and mind

traps in personal and social environments. Students will engage within various

concepts of solutions to ensure positive thinking towards academics and life

experience.

Week Thirteen: Communication Styles

Students will learn about the various communication styles people use on and

off campus. Students will identify their own communication style on the road

to personal and academic success.

Week Fourteen: Communication Roadblocks

Students will learn the roadblocks to healthy communication. Students will

identify and highlight the roadblocks or negative styles they currently may exhibit.

Week Fifteen: The Art of Self-Motivation

Students will learn the importance of staying on task and motivated throughout

the entire school year. Students will review goals and highlight success from start

of the school year while focusing on the long-term goals set.

Week Sixteen: Effective Refusals & Triggers

Students will learn the triggers that prevent & intervene with success. Students

will highlight the significance of emotional triggers while understanding the

opportunity to the refusal option for personal and academic wellness.

Week Seventeen: Staying Motivated

Students will learn the connotation of which they have grown and succeeded or

may need improvement academically and personally. Students will work and

implement a strategy by which they can obtain and use practical solutions to

staying motivated while on Winter break.

Week Eighteen: Finishing Strong

Students will learn the significance of finishing strong academically and personally

within the school year. Students will learn how to assess their growth, challenges

and solutions to finishing the year positively and resilient.

Week Nineteen: Aggression Cycle

Students will learn the aggression cycle and its natural habitual process. Students

will determine the cycle by which they have continued challenges and how to

cope with aggression by discovering the unpretentious character that can be

developed.

Week Twenty: Understanding Anger

Students will learn the nature and origin of anger in the human body. Students

will learn to understand where anger comes from along with the types and

preventive measures available to practice as students on and off campus.

Week Twenty One: Anger in Relationships

Students will learn how anger can be prevalent within personal, social & familial

relationships if not understood and given adequate focus. Students will focus on

listening tactics & putting others first.

Week Twenty Two: Repairing Relationships

Students will learn the importance and methods to resolving conflict in

relationships as a result to anger and the behaviors exhibited. Students will

highlight and modify the challenges and egotistical attitudes all parties that are

involved.

Week Twenty Three: Taking Care of Yourself

Students will learn the importance of taking care of themselves and maintaining

the modifications made throughout the year. Students will apply special focus to

setting goals that are attainable and that sustain the growth achieved personally,

emotionally, socially, familial and academically within their character.

Week Twenty Four: Work & Recovery

Students will learn the significant relevance to maintaining a sober lifestyle

personally and socially while employed or sustaining a-cademic success. Students

will learn how to set realistic goals and how to stay positive and dedicated to their

success.

Week Twenty Five: Teambuilding

Students will learn the dynamics and ethics of proper team building. Students will

engage in the concept creatively and intentionally to develop strengths and

identify challenges to teambuilding.

Week Twenty Six: How To Manage Success

Students will learn how to manage their growth and success within their personal,

academic, social and familial status. Each student will work to sustain and manage

the current and long term goals within academics & profession.