Youth are experiencing unprecedented mental, social, and behavioral health struggles
Make a positive, lasting impact with the PowerUp life skill curriculum!
Organizations serving 5th-12th graders can provide them with evidence-based life skill training crucial for well-being and success today by using PowerUp Co-Ed video lessons with activities and fun, interactive games.
About the PowerUp Life Skill Curriculum
PowerUp Co-Ed sessions teach youth comprehensive life skills shown by research to be crucial for mental, social, and behavioral health, safety, academic success, and overall positive development today.
Online session videos and documents are designed for flexible, easy use with minimal training, preparation and supplies. These 30-minute video-led sessions can serve one or many students and can be shortened to fit time schedules while supporting belongingness and positive culture among students and between them and adults.
PowerUp sessions are based on psychosocial research and the science of learning to give youth practical tools for:
- self-esteem, confidence, and resilience without entitlement
- coping with stress and managing emotions
- recognizing depression, anxiety, when help is needed, and how to get it
- self-harm and suicide prevention
- empathy & self-compassion
- bullying reduction and defense
- social media and drama management
- personal and school safety
- healthy relationships, social skills and valuing diversity
- problem & conflict-solving, assertiveness, and violence prevention
- healthy brain development and substance use prevention
- mindsets & healthy habits and brain food
- valuing adult support and how to find it, and
- all CASEL competencies
while building positive culture, confidence, belongingness, and open communication.
About Licensed Use
PowerUp Co-Ed for 5th-12th grade youth is divided into 5 topical sections of life skill lessons. Use requires purchasing a one year license on this site unless you are eligible for free use within Weld County, Colorado. For Weld County use, please email info@youthempowermentgroup.org if you have not received a sign-up link directly from Youth Empowerment Group.
Purchased Licenses
You may purchase a license to use our lessons from one or more specific curriculum sections, or use the entire curriculum as a discounted bundle. Click a section to see included lessons. Each license permits:
*One youth-serving professional (teacher, school counselor, youth organization staff member) and helpers to serve one set of students for one year, or
*One youth-serving organization (e.g., nonprofit, after-school program, mentor program, faith youth group, child advocacy or family support, sport league, or homeschool) to use lessons with one set of students for one year.
Organizations such as schools can receive personalized multi-use license quotes and invoices by emailing: info@youthempowermentgroup.org.
Viewing curriculum content or purchasing a license or using free sessions confirms reading and agreeing to the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Youth Empowerment Group's Terms of Use.
Youth are struggling and you can help. Go for it!
Youth-serving organizations including schools with multiple users can get a personalized quote by emailing info@youthempowermentgroup.org.
ABOUT TEACHING POWERUP
These lessons make your job caring for youth easier and supports positive youth outcomes!
Mental health, education, and medical experts designed this curriculum's video-based sessions for schools and youth-serving organizations and community groups to be comprehensive, easy, and flexible:
- Teach one youth to large student groups
- Do sessions in any order
- 30 to 45-minute lessons with games and activities can be divided to fit time schedules
- Brief 1-3 minute topical video teaching segments can be used in classrooms and groups via chapter markers
- Online session pages contain printable instructor guides, student handouts, game cards, and activity sheets
Session videos contain:
- Ten to 15-minute teaching segments including brief reviews on topics shown by research to be crucial for the well-being and success of today's youth
- Discussion "Talk time" introduced by a rap song with a 3-minute timer
- Animated activity or game instructions and timers
- Sessions longer than 45-minutes usually contain multiple activity or game options
MEET THE CURRICULUM DEVELOPERS
About the Youth Empowerment Group (YEG)
The nonprofit Youth Empowerment Group's volunteer experts in mental health, education, and medicine are dedicated to supporting mental, social, and behavioral health, safety, equality, healthy relationships, and academic success in tweens and teens by creating easy, effective, and comprehensive life skill curriculums.
