Respect Round Robin
Fairfax Alternative High School partners with HALO so that its students can receive a portion of their art credit for graduation, while also working on life skills. Fairfax explores the life skill respect in March. During the second workshop of the month, students, HALO staff and volunteers participated in respect round robin. Everyone was instructed to draw a symbol that …
HALO Jefferson City April Update
This month at the HALO Art Therapy program at the Rape and Abuse Crisis Shelter, the youth learned about Confidence and Respect. For Confidence, they created silly self-portraits and used words to describe themselves. For Respect they talked about respecting animals and their habitats and created collages using images of their favorite animals. The youth really enjoyed the activities and did a …
July Life Skill of the Month “Respect”
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 …
Respect Starts from Within
“Think of someone you respect. What is a characteristic about this person that you respect?” “What is a characteristic you respect about yourself?” John Gordon, Business and Life Coach, posed these questions at HALO’s July team meeting. Among the team’s responses were passion, humility, empathy, determination, dependability, focus, and work ethic. Speaking on respect, Gordon was the guest speaker for …