GeoVi's Relationship, Education, and Training Program

In summary, our G.R.E.A.T. Program is administered to our residents and are age appropriate. G.R.E.A.T. is conducted by qualified personnel and volunteers who have cleared a criminal background check. The residents are required to participate in the following classes and activities:

1. Academic and Christian education
2. Life skills training
3. Parenting skills and Early Child Development
4. Social and etiquette skills
5. Relationship Education through abstinence and marriage partnership
6. Volunteering and Community service
7. Team building exercises and activities
8. Physical and recreational activities
9. Health and Sanitation
10. Nutrition and menu planning
11. Cooking classes
12. Domestic / consumer sciences
13. Family Income Generation
14. Educational field trips
15. Organic gardening - vegetable and flora
16. Journaling and writing skills
17. Arts and crafts
18. Budgeting and financial planning
19. Technology training in Computer lab
20. Psychological breakthrough and healing
21. Character building
22. The Psychology of Creativity
23. Individual and group counseling
24. Guidance and career counseling
25. Global awareness
26. Handling peer and societal pressure
27. Planned Parenthood
28. Reversal of Generational Patterns and Trends within families

Our curriculum and point of references are faith-based. We are using Excel, Quest and Adkins Life Skills Program.

Quest:

Quest reaches students in grades 6-8 and takes them on a journey to discover how their future can be impacted by their choices today. Quest encourages and facilitates parental participation.

Excel:

Excel is designed for youth groups, Christian schools, and pregnancy care centers reaching grades 9-12. Excel is a positive and unique presentation based on the Joseph narrative in Genesis, and is careful to present material in a manner that is appropriate for faith-based settings. Excel encourages and facilitates parental participation.

Adkins Life Skills Program:

The Adkins Life Skills Program, Career Development Series, now in its third edition, is an innovative multimedia, group, employability, learning program developed at Columbia University specifically for economically disadvantaged and under-served adults and youth. It systematically and sensitively enlists clients in discovering their strengths and taking responsibility for their own development and employment.