KINDRED

“KINDRED'S mission is to establish a family of mentors, advocates and professionals to cross-collaborate on prevention and early intervention services that support youth mental health and disrupt the school to prison pipeline. ”

Our Goal

KINDRED’S goal is to organize our group of mentors, advocates and professionals to address mental health, childhood trauma, abuse and neglect the youth in our programs are facing.

COUNCIL FOR UNITY

Council for Unity is a peer Intercession and mediation program that helps students develop the conflict resolution skills of understanding conflict, confidentiality, effective communication and intentional listening. It is the act of intervening on behalf of another.

Music Therapy

Music Therapy is the clinical use of music to accomplish individualized goals such as reducing stress, improving mood and self-expression. Music Therapy experiences may include listening, singing, playing instruments, or composing music.

Applied Behavioral Analysis ABA Therapy

Involves working with a trained healthcare professional called a registered behavior technician (RBT), who works with the child to support learning skills that are part of daily living.

  • A paraprofessional that provides direct one-on one behavioral interventions to teach communication, social, and daily living skills and reduce problematic behaviors in home, community and school settings.

  • Teaches children and adolescent age-appropriate emotional regulation skills that involve using their senses (sight and sound) to help them remain within the present moment when feeling unregulated.

  • One-on-one sessions to assess and understand a child’s individual behavior. ABA refers to a set of principles that focus on how behaviors change or are affected by the environment, as well as how learning takes place. Individual plans are created for each child.

RESTORATIVE PRACTICES

Restorative Practices work to repair harm through leaning and community participation. We work on cultivating a positive, respectful and inclusive environment.

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

KINDRED use mediation and community building to shift away from a punitive discipline model to disrupt the school to prison pipeline.