The Brian Dawkins
Cerebral Wellness & Enrichment Programs
PROGRAMS THAT MAKE AN IMPACT
Owning Your Cerebral Wellness Program
Single Parent Families Program
OWNING YOUR CEREBRAL WELLNESS PROGRAM
Own Your Cerebral Wellness: Unlock the Power of a Healthy Mind
The Owning Your Cerebral course teaches students the importance of paying attention to their mental health by blending evidence-informed content with engaging digital activities. Five lessons scaffold knowledge to build a comprehensive understanding of what mental wellbeing is and how to maintain or achieve it.
Program Partner
Location
Greater Philadelphia, Camden, and Jacksonville
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
In this course, students are introduced to the topic of mental health and the ways in which they can implement coping strategies to manage their own challenging thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. The course recognizes that students can be faced with external circumstances beyond their control which can impact their mental health. Students learn how to support friends and family who may be struggling, how to recognize when to seek help, and how to access appropriate resources to do so. COVID-19’s impact on mental health is addressed.
The course covers the following topic areas:
1. Introduction to Mental Health: Defining mental health, how the brain works, and impact of stress.
2. Understanding Mental Health Challenges: Exploring mental illness and the impact of trauma.
3. Mental Health Coping Strategies: Applying ways to maintain and improve mental health.
4. Staying Healthy in Times of Uncertainty: Identifying and coping with unexpected events.
5. Seeking and Offering Help: Understanding when to seek help and how to offer support.
6. Creating a Supportive Mental Health Plan: Developing a mental health wellness plan for yourself and supporting others.
SINGLE PARENT FAMILIES PROGRAM
Empowering Single-Parent Families: A Pathway to Strength and Success
The Single Parent Families Program provides low-income single parents in Philadelphia with nominal grants to support them in accessing further enrichment opportunities for their children. Originally beginning as a program that benefited the children in the families, the program is now benefiting the parents as well.
Program Partner
Location
Greater Philadelphia
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The program is based on the belief that to help a child, you must support the system in which they live. Through this program, we provide additional resources for parents who are working hard to provide the best for their children and help them get ahead in life. Whether academic, athletic, artistic, or vocational, related to mental well-being or in support of future education or employment prospects, the goal is to help them provide additional resources that might otherwise be out of reach and to break free of generational cycles of immobility and poverty.
The program also provides grants to the parents themselves, so that they also have the opportunity to pursue enrichment opportunities that help provide transformative moments for them and their families. In Philadelphia, the Single Parent Families Program is solely administered by the Caring People Alliance (CPA), a non-profit dedicated to reducing poverty and injustice.
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