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Lessons that Take Root: Caring for Plants Promotes Social-Emotional Growth

Lessons that Take Root: Caring for Plants Promotes Social-Emotional Growth Classroom lessons at PEP aren’t always about reading, writing and arithmetic. Students at PEP often struggle with mental health issues, trauma, or other serious challenges. Guided by the Neurosequential Model and PEP’s founding philosophy of Re-ED, PEP staff members know that for kids to learn,
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Service-Learning Project Benefits Men Experiencing Homelessness

Service-Learning Project Benefits Men Experiencing Homelessness A group of PEP Phoenix upperclassmen have just completed a service-learning project that gets them one step closer to earning their high school diploma. The project is part of a national leadership program for 6th – 12th graders called Lead4Change, in which students research and propose a project to
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Bibliotherapy: Every Child Has a Story

Bibliotherapy: Every Child Has a Story Extreme poverty, the unexpected loss of a loved one, neighborhood violence, household dysfunction. These are just a few of the traumatic circumstances and events that are all too familiar for many of the children and families served through PEP Day Treatment Centers. Experiences like these breed fear, distrust and
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The Transformative Power of Chess at PEP

The Transformative Power of Chess at PEP If you know nothing else about John Saade, you know that he is a chess fanatic. Saade, a teacher-counselor at PEP Phoenix, credits chess with saving his life. It was his love for the game, he says, that got him through a difficult period of his youth. He
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