Pathways to Wealth and Wellness
Program and Service Options
Using music and media for instruction, enrichment, counseling & therapy
doucwhatic™
doUCwhatIC™ is an approach to teaching, learning, counseling/therapy, and support services that uses the content and context of popular youth music and media to prompt self-reflection, self and social awareness, and response-ability. This approach is intricately tied to Tag-n-Talk™. Together, these proprietary approaches require training that leads to certification and a licensing agreement.
Reducing Disease in America™
MusicsEnergy: Reducing Dis-ease in America™ is an approach to teaching, learning, and group therapy that helps young people improve their self and social awareness, critical thinking, decision-making, and self-regulation skills. This approach examines the role race, class, and gender have played and currently play in behavior and cultural norm. We address how social constructions of “reality” are intricately linked to attitudes, beliefs, and choices at the individual and group levels.
project aheaD™
PROJECT AHEAD™ is a collection of programs that measurably improve outcomes linked to health and financial literacy. Although not exclusive, emphasis is on vulnerable and marginalized populations based on economic, race, or class disparities. These programs give providers access to a database of evidence-based approaches that address health, education, and economic disparities by highlighting pathways to wealth and wellness. Emphasis is on social entrepreneurship and social justice. Participants receive instruction that leads to certification. Certified providers are matched with local agencies for serving learning projects.
J. Cafe™
J. Cafe™ is a signature event or highlighting the gifts and talents of artists, artisans, and guests presenters before a live or virtual audience. Sponsorship opportunities are available for this event or series that presents original music, spoken word and rap performances. Project based learning about marketing and staging events is included in this programming and monitoring services.
Songwriting with Young People™
MusicsEnergy: Songwriting with Young People™ is a proprietary approach to youth engagement that introduces young people and those who interact with them to the world of songwriting, sound engineering, media entertainment, recording technology, music marketing, publishing and distribution. A distinguishing feature is that young people are taught to be conscious consumer, armed with knowledge and skills to be social entrepreneurs, fully awareness of music’s persuasive influence.
Real Men Talk™
Real Men Talk™ is a platform created for men who have diverse perspectives about living as “male” in a gender-normed world. These men share a desire and commitment to apply lessons learned by approaching life as conversation. Topics are broadly related to socio-cultural and psychosocial “realities”. Participants in these live and recorded sessions range in age and socioeconomic, and political background. Topics are thoughtfully selected to represent generational and other differences, while being intentional to celebrate the ties that bind. Topics are geared toward individuals who identify as males, including those who may struggle with traditional gender roles.
Messages in Music™
MusicsEnergy: Messages in Music™ is an evidence-based approach to engaging young people in teaching, learning, and group therapy. This approach helps young people develop in five key areas. Music and media are used to facilitate self-reflection, critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, and healthy coping. We provide training, supervision, and monitoring services in school and community settings.
My VITAL SIGNS™
MyVitalSigns™ is a proprietary platform that provides opportunities for sponsors and partners to participate in customizing a signature program that encourages the connections between the mind, body, and spirit. Monitoring our physical and emotional vital signs is a good thing, Seeking help to optimize how we cope, problem solve, make decisions is a sign of prioritizing your mental health and wellness. Digital access for diverse audiences gives everyone an opportunity to optimize their health.
Tag-n-talk™
Tag-n-Talk™ is a proprietary approach to teaching, learning, counseling, and group therapy. It is the companion to doUCwhatIC™. Together, these two help young people critically consider how music and media may be used to sharpen their self and social awareness, improve their decision-making, and self-regulation skills in a fun, engaging way. We examine the role of behavioral, communication, cultural norms and lifestyle. We address how socially constructions of reality shape and reinforce attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, and choices at the individual and group levels. This approach to teaching, learning and enrichment is “brand new”.