Positive Resistance: The Purpose: Creating Living Illustrations
 
The Plan The Purpose The Programs The Potential
 
 


Influence Reality by Testing Life

POSITIVE RESISTANCE IS A REACTION. It is the refusal. The interpretation. The NO. The struggle of self-repair. The ability to defy the odds and thrive through profitless conditions. It is the element which refuses access to any excuse. Like the brakes of a train it requires us to make sparks and test our own resources.  It provokes us to overthrow traditions of instability, to finally wipe the steam from the mirror and face ourselves without fear of what it costs to take custody of our lives.  That we may boldly ask ourselves, in contrast to our history, what is our might? What have we prepared ourselves for?

Creating Living Illustrations

The Definition program strives to guide each youth to a place of self-actualization. When foster teens were asked what they think they will come to celebrate about their lives each saw reflections of their unique resilience. 

     THESE ARE THE RESPONSES OF FOSTER YOUTH WHO WERE ASKED     
HOW THEY WANT TO BE REMEMBERED

 

 

  -Felicia, Age16

 


    
                
                         
As the person who changed the way
                            I thought about life and succeeded
                                        in what I wanted to be.

 
 



  -Emily, Age 15


    
 


                
As the person who changed the stereotype that
                      most people have of foster children how we
                                  are not doomed to repeat the
                                        negative cycles which
                                           is an accessory to
                                            most children of
                                               broken homes.

 
 



  -Larry, Age17





                       As the person who changed the direction
                            taken after this challenging segment
                                    of the beginning of my life

 
 



  -Shannon, Age 14





    
               As someone who changed the statistics and
                            the vision of everyone who has been
                                negative. Also, a person who
                                      changed the odds and
                                             proved wrong.

 
 
   

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