The Heroes program is a social-emotional skill building program that equips youth with tools proven to enhance their capacity for resilience. By building their inner strengths, resilience, and decision-making skills, youth feel more confident navigating life’s challenges and taking healthy risks.
Research shows that building positive capacity in youth requires four dimensions of strength-based learning: feeling, thought, behaviour and conviction. The Heroes program implements these dimensions by making students feel valued and safe, inspiring them to foster their own motivational thoughts and to think optimistically about their future. It provides them with experiential learning exercises to practice new skills and insights into positive peer-to-peer interaction and behaviour.
We’ve updated the Heroes program to be trauma-informed, featuring a new self-authoring chapter for your students. Learn about trauma-informed care here.
the outcome of the heroes program is:
Purposeful youth who are confident and who actualize the positive behaviour learned throughout Heroes to continue to positively impact themselves and the world around them.
PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
PROGRAM MATERIALS
What’s Included:
Four-hour Facilitator Training
Journal for Every Student
Heroes @ Home for Parents/caregivers
Before and After Psychological Strengths Evaluation
Flourishing Life Questionnaire Report for Educators
harmehar’s story
“At the very least, people need to know that Heroes is a life skills program, an essential life skills program. But at the most, it can encourage groups of students to have more courage and have more faith in themselves as they move forward in this life.”
Harmehar Dhillon was in the 8th grade when she was introduced to the Heroes program. Just 12 years old at the time, Harmehar was struggling with self-image, healthy friendships, and the fear of failure.
Today, Harmehar is a recent university graduate pursuing her dream of becoming a lawyer. She credits the Heroes program for encouraging her the make the changes necessary for her to live a flourishing life.
sample exercise
Experiential learning is a critical exercise that allows students to enhance their knowledge, uncover their strengths, and develop thier capacity to get involved in group settings. Follow along while Impact Society’s program director, Jordan Remple, shares an experiential activity based on the labels we give ourselves.
“I really like this program! It teaches how to push through the tough stuff and there will be hope on the other side! I have really enjoyed this program and it has helped me for sure!”
- Heroes Participant
“Our vision is for every young person to have the tools and system of support they need to live a flourishing life.”
Impact Society has been developing curriculum resources for students, educators, communities and families for over 25 years.
Our signature program, Heroes, follows the brain science of change (feelings, thoughts, behaviour, conviction) that builds on the strengths of a student. Heroes has been proven to build 30 psychological and sociological factors in young people, increasing their resilience and mental well-being.
Heroes programs are proactive in nature, providing young people with the tools to live and lead from their gifts & abilities, enhancing their capacity to experience long-term purpose and significance.