Programs Include:

e-Mentoring – Empowering middle and high school aged students to persist and succeed in school, at work and in their personal lives.

Vision Smart Kids (VSK) – ReCapturing the Vision (RTV) delivers after school services to strengthen academic performance as well as summer camp programs providing a safe and memorable, fun filled summer break for our students. Summer time is a great opportunity for us to continue assisting our student’s to stay on track and avoid the summer slide. We introduce daily literature through both of our programs maximizing the time with our students as we help them reach their full potential.

Men of Vision – designed for middle and high school age youth, this program teaches young, urban males invaluable lessons about life planning, job preparation, fatherhood and a successful transition into manhood.

Vessels of Honor – focuses on character building, dealing with peer pressure, preventing disease and teen pregnancy, as well as the importance of forming healthy relationships and compatibility.

e-Zone – equips teens with developmental assets, including positive identity formation, conflict resolution, goal setting and leadership skills, all essential to negotiating a successful journey in life.

Capturing the Vision – molds young ladies into successful women by instilling positive attitudes, conflict-resolution skills, and helping them to discover their talents and career paths.

Raise the Standard – teaches elementary-age youth lessons in responsibility, honesty, conflict-resolution and peer pressure in a constructive, age-appropriate environment.

Making It Work – teaches youth how to cultivate healthy relationships, discover their life goals and develop the core elements necessary for a healthy marriage.

Research-Based

All of RTV’s programs are based on proven research from the Search Institute on the role of developmental assets in promoting youth success. These developmental assets are protective factors that have tremendous power to redirect youth from the negative outcomes of TEEN PREGNANCY, ACADEMIC FAILURE, VIOLENCE, GANG ACTIVITY and CRIME.

All of of RTV’s programs help empower youth by instilling developmental assets including:

• Integrity
• Honesty
• Responsibility
• Planning and Decision-Making
• Resistance Skills
• Peaceful Conflict Resolution
• Personal Power
• Self-Esteem
• Sense of Purpose
• Positive View of Personal Future
• Adult Preparation Life Skills

Research on RTV’s programs

ReCapturing the Vision’s cutting-edge programs cultivate developmental assets that are proven antidotes to the issues that cripple the positive development of America’s youth. These assets have tremendous power to protect youth from the negative outcomes of TEEN PREGNANCY, ACADEMIC FAILURE, VIOLENCE, GANG ACTIVITY, and CRIME.

The Proof. . .

For more than 15 years, ReCapturing the Vision has consistently replicated these outcomes throughout the third- and fourth-largest school districts in the country:

• Improve grade point average in approximately 90% of students served
• Reduce outdoor suspensions for approximately 70% of students served
• Increase attendance in approximately 60% of students served
• Reduce indoor suspensions for approximately 90% of students served
• Improve resiliency as evidenced by nationally valid instrument in approximately 80% of students served
• Improve self-esteem as evidenced by nationally valid instrument in approximately 90% of students served

Research Partners

Currently, RTV partners with researchers from Nova Southeastern University and Duke University to conduct process evaluations of its programs at sites across the country.

Click here to view current research on RTV programs.

Outcomes

A fundamental goal of all of RTV’s programs is to re-engage students in their education. For more than 15 years, The Thurston Research Group has tracked RTV’s program outcomes. The following results have been consistently reproduced across diverse populations of students attending schools in Miami-Dade, Broward and Orange County school districts:

• Improve grade point average in approximately 90% of students served
• Reduce outdoor suspensions for approximately 70% of students served
• Increase attendance in approximately 60% of students served
• Reduce indoor suspensions for approximately 90% of students served
• Improve resiliency as evidenced by nationally valid instrument in approximately 80% of students served
• Improve self-esteem as evidenced by nationally valid instrument in approximately 90% of students served
• Students’ knowledge, attitudes and beliefs have also shown improvement in the following areas: STD knowledge; benefits of delaying sex; drug use and knowledge; attitudes toward conflict; incidences of conflict; attitudes toward marriage; and relationship skills.

Implementation

RTV programs are designed as a package that can be implemented over the course of a half-semester, semester or year. The programs’ modular design allows it to fit any program structure. Learn how RTV’s programs can help you make a difference in young people’s lives.

Resources

RTV has also developed a suite of public and membership-based resources for students, teachers and parents.

“I Am A Student” features resources on college, career, health, fitness, and community service. Here students can play free games, read the latest issue of Teen Vision Magazine, or get plugged in to RTV’s Vision-On-The-Go network.

“I Am A Teacher” offers support to educators through free resources on everything from maintaining discipline in class to dealing with irate parents. This is also the portal to the private side of our website where teachers delivering RTV’s programs can access the online video curricula.

“I Am A Parent” is a place for parents and couples to convene for advice and resources on parenting and marriage.

“I Am A School Administrator” to come...

Research

RTV understands the importance of research and is committed to sharing knowledge and best practices with other organizations doing this work. Data collection is central to this effort, and RTV has developed web-based student surveys and assessment tools to collect real-time, relevant data. RTV is interested in partnering with schools, researchers and foundations to further investigate how our tools promote student achievement, so that solutions can be implemented on a large scale.