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Additional Resources outside of School Hours that focus on:
- Critical Thinking
- Experiential Learning
- Edu-Play
- Matching interest with learning opportunities that foster economic empowerment
- Exposure to professionals in their respective areas of interests
- Creating social mobility through cultural exposure and preparation for high income jobs.
GBDC ENTREPRENEURSHIP EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING CENTER
An Interactive Edu-play Center Developing, Mentoring, Empowering and
Creating Social Mobility for Tomorrow’s Professionals & Business Owners
The program states that experiential intervention programs are necessary to reduce to possibility of the trauma experienced as a child dominating their adult lives.
The programs at GBDCEI are designed to have short and long-term impacts. Some short-term impact includes providing transportation, meals, clothes and paid stipends to remove the key barriers to participation. Additionally, using music and art, writing skits about social issues they are facing, and performing them for other children improve self-confidence and pride because they immediately become real-life influencers.
Long-term impacts include providing quality jobs that create social mobility, starting entrepreneurial ventures, break the generational cycle of drug use and criminal activity.
Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs, are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood (0-18 years), such as experiencing violence, abuse, or neglect, witnessing violence in the home, and having a family member attempt or die by suicide. Also included are aspects of the child’s environment that can undermine their sense of safety, stability, and bonding, such as growing up in a household with substance misuse, mental health problems, or instability due to parental separation or incarceration of a parent, sibling, or another member of the household. The original 10 ACEs The term Adverse Childhood Experiences – or “ACEs” comes from a critical study published by the CDC and Kaiser Permanente in 1997. It looked at ten types of stressful or traumatic events that fall into three categories:
- Abuse – encompasses physical, emotional, and sexual abuse
- Neglect – Encompasses physical and emotional neglect
- Household Challenges – Growing up with incarceration, mental illness, substance abuse, parental separation, divorce, or intimate partner violence, poverty
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