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This month, our HALO Uganda Team met with the mentors from our 7 homes to discuss our mission in the spirit of the March life skill of the month, accountability. The team reflected on the criteria of vulnerability we employ before accepting youth in the homes to ensure that we are serving youth in the greatest need. This is an important …
This month at HALO, we focus on the life skill “Accountability”. You may ask why this is important. Well, here’s a fact: We are all accountable to someone. But what does this mean? What is accountability and who are we accountable to? We wanted to know more and invited Dionne King, Manager of Diversity at Lathrop & Gage to help …
Road to Rio: Vera Schmitz from Megan Cody on Vimeo. Elite US pole vaulter, 2012 Olympic Trials competitor and 3 time NCAA All-American, Vera (Neuenswander) Schmitz kicked off the monthly HALO staff meeting by sharing her ideas on “Self Discipline”. Vera gave insides in her life as a professional athlete and told us how a positive mindset is essential for her in order …
Agspring Vice President of Marketing Bradford Warner kicked off the monthly HALO staff meeting leading a discussion on “Leadership,” which is the October HALO life skill. Bradford offered insight and advice on how to continue growing the HALO family. He shared that the key to success to building …
At this week’s HALO Staff Meeting, the team used our time together to revisit the topic of Integrity. We asked the questions, “How can we better maintain our own integrity?” “How can we better maintain integrity as a team?” and “What are the best ways to teach our youth to live life with integrity?” To answer our questions we …
July is the month of “Respect” here at HALO! We practice respecting others as well as ourselves in many ways throughout the month. We kicked off our monthly staff meeting with a presentation on trauma by our HALO Center Facilitator Aubony Chalfant. The team learned about the different ways trauma can affect the brain and how those impact behavior. Receiving this training was …
Featured monthly life skill speaker Elisabeth Jamison joined us via Skype from New York to share her expertise with the topics of mindfulness and power poses. Perfect time to bring more “Focus” into our lives as an organization plus great tips to teach our HALO youth. Elisabeth shared that “mindfulness is like when you are in love, you take in …
Each month HALO focuses on a different life skill. For November, it’s all about health. During our monthly staff meeting, Victor Roberts of Darling Yoga served as our featured guest speaker and spoke on stress management. He shared the importance of managing stress before a stressful situation hits and to develop a mental awareness that allows you to react. His …
