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Last updated on May 21, 2008

Adolescent Intervention Network, Inc. (AIN), is committed to reinforcing healthy behaviors, positive self-development and social values by providing services that strengthen youth, families and communities.

AIN’s goals are to:

•Reduce the effects of poor self-image by enhancing self-confidence and self-respect through leadership building and social skills.

•Improve leadership skills in the areas of drug and alcohol abuse prevention, civic engagement and academic initiative.

•Improve literacy and academic skills, creating a love for learning.

•Encourage positive communication and facilitate parent- youth involvement by having young people and adults come together to practice negotiating, communicating, decision-making and to create positive social change.

As a result of AIN’s mission, stems the “Youth Making Positive Choices” Program. The program contains four core workshops:

• The Leader in You. Youth learn how to use their own resources to make decisions that positively impact their lives. Why is it that some people seem to be successful at anything they do? What makes them difference from everyone else? AIN provides youth with life skills enhancement classes and strategies that can help them meet their goals, and learn that the keys to success are to have a positive attitude.
  
  
• Resolving Inner/Outer Conflicts. Youth learn that they have the power to make positive changes in their lives. Youth learn that change must first occur within. Since teens are deeply engaged in the process of establishing an independent identity, and at the same time experiencing pressure from the peer group to conform, the need to posses some techniques for negotiating this process constructively is critical. AIN helps youth understand they have the power to decide and to act on how they will handle conflict in their own lives, and those decisions and actions have long –term repercussions what will permeate their lives, friendships, and work.
  
  

• In Who’s Image? Youth learn to accept themselves for who they are as they begin to celebrate their strengths and overcome their weaknesses while learning to appreciate their uniqueness. The program encourages teen to think about their innate qualities so they can nurture their identity, and develop a healthy mind and body.
  
  
• Becoming Your Own Best Friend. Youth learn to make positive decisions for their lives as they resist peer pressure and negative outside influences that often lead to first-time illegal drug use and its sale. Youth will learn how to audit and build their self-esteem, make their own decisions and improve their skills and knowledge.
  
  

The “Youth Making Positive Choices” Program was implemented to help youth resist negative peer pressure often celebrated in urban communities throughout Philadelphia. The program promotes higher education, spiritual growth, self-respect, and respect for adults, community and peers. Additionally, AIN realizes that only when youth learn to identify the triggers that allow them to continually victimize themselves, will they be able to successfully begin to make positive life choices.

Description:
AIN provides services such as tutoring, self-esteem workshops, mentoring, and life skills enhancement classes that help build leadership skills through a series of enriching activities in a safe, healthy, and drug free environment.

Youth gain the resources needed to recognize what it looks like; feels like; and sounds like to make positive choices.

History:
Since 1997, AIN(formally called Self-Esteem Enhancement Core), has serviced more than 200 Philadelphia youth, ages 8 through 18, attending John Bartram High School, John P. Turner Middle School, and S. Weir Mitchell Elementary School. In addition, AIN provided leadership training to 57 youth through the Philadelphia Free Library system. Further, in 2002, AIN collaborated with University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business Students to develop a self-esteem workbook entitled “Get Set with Self Esteem.” More currently, AIN provided prevention workshops to 60 adjudicated youth at Delta Community Family Services and Bethanna Foster Care and Adoption Agency.
AIN provides ongoing self-esteem workshops for Provider to Provider Initiative, a community based organization for Family Childcare Providers.

Contact person: Veronica Manley, Director, (phone), (email)

Address:

For All Correspondence: 1370 Rothley Avenue Roslyn, PA 19001 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.ainetworkpa.org

Miscellaneous Information

Are court referrals welcomed?
	Yes

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