What is ALLTURNATIVES?
Music · Sports · Arts · Entrepreneurship
The ultimate goal at ALLturnatives is to promote healthy social and emotional behavioral skills, preparing participants to become trailblazers in the 21st century and beyond.
With a focus on developing problem-solving skills while enhancing creativity, through art therapy, aggression replacement therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy each participant is exposed to the beauty of self-expression and positivity through performing arts, community service, and personal/professional development workshops.
What Does ALLTURNATIVES Do?
By educating youth and young adults in every capacity,
we give them the opportunity to succeed in life.
Encouraging Healthy Expression
Cognitive Behavioral Theory
Cognitive behavioral therapy, often referred to as CBT, is a type of psychotherapy that focuses on making connections between thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. CBT helps people identify and change dysfunctional patterns.
We help our youths and young adults identify the unhealthy behaviors and distorted beliefs that impede their success. CBT helps them confront and modify those distorted beliefs, transforming them into functional coping mechanisms that allow them to soar.
Building Social Skills, One Day at a Time
Empathy Building Social Skills Training Curriculum
We teach empathy. Many of our youths and young adults have never experienced how to process empathy. Our in-house therapists and instructors use sports, music, arts and entrepreneurship to integrate and reinforce positive and healthy social skills.
Our goal is to help youths and young adults recognize their triggers and utilize the resources available to them. We have built a curriculum that caters to the specific needs and background of the youth and partner organizations engaged with us.
Replacing Anger with Healthy Behavior
Aggression Replacement Training® (ART®)
Aggression Replacement Training® (ART®) is a cognitive behavioral intervention program that, as the name suggests, helps children and adolescents to better manage their anger and reduce aggressive behavior.
ART helps identify stressors, which encourages participants to deescalate tense situations in a calm, positive way. Through examining the triggers of aggression and anger, ART improves moral reasoning and social skill competence.
What is Aggression Replacement Training®?
A Holistic Approach to Healing
Multi-Systemic Family Model
Our approach to overcoming anger, aggression and trauma is thoroughly holistic. We incorporate family, school and community into the healing process.
Any one person cannot fully heal unless their overall environment is also healthy. Addressing symptoms and reactions to trauma is only one facet of developing healthy skills, we also address the sources of trauma, breaking generational cycles and setting the stage for success.
ALLTURNATIVES Team
CEO Founder
Michelle Wyms
Parent Liaison
Kenisha Monroe
Education/Art Specialist
Leslie Oliver
Kyesha Clark
Dance Instructor
Hospitality
Nashia Watson
College Liaison / Drum Major
Izzat Monroe / Tiana Hubbard
