The Summer Program

Click here for the 2010 Summer Program Flyer

AHA! has created an exceptional summer program for youth, ages 14-22. The intenseive program runs Monday through Thursday for 3 hours a day and lasts for six weeks.

The curriculum is action-oriented and stresses the importance and effectiveness of inclusive and experiential learning. Led by 12 adult facillitators for every 20 teens, the program includes creative expression through art, writing while developing teens’ confidence, emotional intelligence and social conscience, as well as their ability for authentic self-disclosure, compassionate communication, goal-setting and follow-through, diversity appreciation, prejudice reduction.

The summer program culminates in an overnight camping trip which provides hands-on education about the natural environment while building teens' survival skills and their appreciation of responsibility and community.