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Supporting Young People Experiencing Back-to-School Anxiety

Supporting Young People Experiencing Back-to-School Anxiety Before the 2023-2024 school year ended, we talked to four PEP Hopewell middle and high school students about summer vacation and the inevitable back-to-school anxiety that would occur in the fall. They had a message for the adults in their lives: school is really hard. Sometimes overwhelmingly so. It’s
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A caregiver hugs a graduate at graduation at PEP
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Graduation at PEP: An Extraordinary Milestone

2024 Graduation at PEP PEP is proud to announce that this year we have 20 high school seniors graduating and 24 students reintegrating to their home district. We celebrate their accomplishments and recognize the family, staff and community who helped them along the way. We are so proud of all of them and look forward
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Caring for Plants teaches social emotional lessons
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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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