Life Skill of July: Respect

Every month, we focus on a new life skill. This month’s life skill is respect. HALO youth participated in various activities to learn different ways to show respect and what being respected looks like. The kids used worksheets to reflect on the best ways to show respect to themselves at school, home, and to the environment. See the pictures below to …

Respect: Vera Schmitz Shares what July’s Life Skill Means to Her

This month we’re focusing on “respect” as our July Life Skill. Three-time All American Pole Vaulter, Vera Schmitz, talks about respect and what that has meant in her own life. Vera began talking respecting others from her experiences as a member of a team. She stressed the importance of respecting the group’s energy. At a particularly difficult practice, those who …

I Am More

HALO Founder Rebecca Welsh writes: “Dignity is the state of being worthy of respect. We are all born with it. It is that voice inside us that tells us are worth more than we sometimes think we deserve. Many times for our kids, their dignity is all they have. Its the voice inside of them whispering that the way they …