Bridging youth empowerment and academic excellence, C.G. Smith programs provide academic assistance and behavioral and emotional supports that help youth overcome their behavioral and emotional challenges and empower them to become healthy, happy and academically successful.
Our programs focus on youth between the ages of 5 to 21 who live in Broward County and need extra supports that address behavioral and emotional challenges as well as provide academic assistance. Through academic instruction and therapeutic respite, aftercare and summer programming, C.G Smith’s programs address youth’s academic needs and behavioral and emotional challenges in order for them to lead happy productive lives.
For youth who have serious emotional disturbances or are youth at-risk, C.G. Smith offers the Peaceful Champions after-school and summer program. This year-round program is open for youth age 5 to 14 and has a focus on violence prevention and character-development through martial arts, mental self-defense and peaceful conflict resolution as a method of cognitive behavioral therapy.
Peaceful Champions After-School and Summer Programs
Martial Arts for Peace is a program which emphasizes peaceful conflict resolution, mental self-defense, and the artful expression of physical martial arts training. Martial Arts for Peace teaches children to express the physical aspect of their emotions in healthy ways and to exercise their emotions in a controlled environment.
Expedition Youth Force is a youth development after school and summer program for middle and high school aged youth who have emotional and behavioral disorders. Through this program youth are able to access independent-living skills training, prevention education, leadership training, and academic enrichment activities as well as connect with other services and referrals.
Expedition Youth Force Teen Programs
Expedition Youth Force is an after school/summer teen program designed to meet the needs of youth in both middle and high school, who have been diagnosed with an emotional behavioral disorders (EBD) and emotional handicaps. The overall goal of Expedition Youth Force is to provide our youth…
C.G. Smith’s Respite program offers a much-needed break for parents of children who have been identified with severe emotional disturbances or youth at-risk between the ages of 5 to 13. Respite care is provided on Saturdays from 9:00am to 5:00pm at ____________.
Respite
Programs
The Respite Program at Smith Community Mental Health offers the much needed service of specialty childcare structured to manage and meet the needs of children who have been identified as emotionally handicapped, severely emotionally disturbed or at risk for such issues. While in care, the student will take part in…
C. G. Smith Academy is an accredited private school serving at-risk youth from kindergarten through grade twelve. The Academy was developed to provide high-quality academics for youth admitted to the Smith Community Health Comprehensive Treatment Program, which treats youth with substance abuse, mental health disorders or co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders. This population of middle and high school students often has gaps in their learning and struggle throughout their academic career.
Supported Training & Employment Program
The CG Smith Supported Training and Employment Program takes place after school three days per week during the school year and provides job coaching / supervision for employment placements during the summer months. Specialty trained staff work with youth to develop individualized transition plans identifying the youths’ goals…
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