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Adopting a Proactive Approach to Promote Your Mental Wellness

Adopting a Proactive Approach to Promote Your Mental Wellness Often, when we hear the phrase “mental health,” our mind turns immediately to mental illness. Yet, the truth is, just like all of us have physical health, we also have mental health. Those who have physical health challenges must still focus on their overall health. They
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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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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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