Group Activities & Educational Classes

AIDS Awareness: This educational class provides up-to-date information to Casa's residents on the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Anger Management/Assertion Training: This educational class helps residents learn appropriate techniques for dealing with their anger, while also teaching them how to stand up for their rights without infringing on the rights of others.

Art Therapy: This therapeutic class provides residents with a non-verbal means of self-expression.

Choices: This therapeutic class is designed to help adolescents develop values and goals while realizing the power of personal choice.

Discussion on Decision Making: This educational class provides residents with an easy-to-use decision making model.

Drug Education: This educational class provides residents with up-to-date information on the use and abuse of drugs, especially alcohol.

Eating Attitudes for Teens: This class provided information on eating disorders as well as resources for help in the community.

Educational Tutoring: This one-on-one educational activity is designed to provide residents an opportunity to improve their reading and comprehension skills.

Family Life Education: This class provides residents with up-to-date information on the consequences of sexual behavior, such as pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, as well as birth control methods, including abstinence.

Group Therapy: This therapeutic activity allows residents the opportunity to explore their feelings and learn, from each other and from staff, appropriate expressions of those feelings.

Issues of Abuse: In this educational and therapeutic class, residents learn to identify the many types of abuse as well as coping mechanisms.

Pathways to Parental Empowerment: This educational and therapeutic parenting class helps parents develop clear, concise rules and learn how to consistently enforce them.

Student Opportunities for Academic Responsibility (SOAR): This educational class helps residents catch up on the basics of reading, math, science, and social science while utilizing our computer lab. Residents also learn the basics of personal computers.

Support-group Theater: This educational and therapeutic group educates youth on the basics of 12-step programs, while also giving them the opportunity to speak out on their issues regarding addictive behavior.

Special Teens at Risk (STAR): The STAR group helps child sexual abuse victims begin to work through issues related to their victimization and progress onward to defining themselves as survivors.

Teens, Families, and Drugs: This educational and therapeutic group class educates residents on the multi-generational aspect of substance abuse, while also giving a forum on what it's like to grow up in an alcoholic home.