LIONHEART FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
The Lionheart Foundation brings powerful prevention and rehabilitation programs to at-risk populations across the country to increase the emotional competency and well-being of at-risk youth and incarcerated adults significantly enough to alter their life course. TLF envisions a safer, more evolved society, where individuals are empowered to take personal responsibility for right thought and right action. TLF Values: Justice (restorative), supporting the emotional health of people who have been marginalized so that they can unmask their potential and live productive lives. Excellence, creating and producing exceptional quality resources and delivering outstanding programs and trainings to serve target populations. TLF identifies a vast array of programs and institutions and effectively gets resources to those they are intended to serve and assures exposure to its resources through free nationwide distribution knowing that without it only a tiny fraction of those who could benefit would have the opportunity.
About This Cause
The Lionheart Foundation (TLF) has positively impacted the lives of tens of thousands of at-risk youth and prisoners across the country and changed the nature of programming in some of the nation's most violent institutions. TLF helps highly at-risk youth and incarcerated adults change their life course by effectively managing the emotions that drive their destructive behaviors, understanding how their actions impact others, and moving forward with greater maturity and insight. The newest component of Lionheart's youth initiative, Power Source Parenting, gives teen parents the skills they need to become effective and nurturing caregivers. Power Source Parenting impacts not only the lives of thousands of teen parents but also their children and future generations. Lionheart's innovative programs are proven to increase social and emotional literacy and cultivate the skills needed for success in relationships, school, employment and the community. The National Emotional Literacy Project for Youth Lionheart helps troubled youth gain the tools and skills to create positive futures with two youth programs - Power Source and Power Source Parenting. . Building upon its successful program for prisoners, Lionheart launched its youth project with the publication of Power Source: Taking Charge of Your Life. Power Source, a practical, accessible, and innovative book and program, empowers young people to break cycles of violence, addiction, and negative risk-taking. Through mindfulness practices, research-driven approaches to changing behavior, and by instilling a profound sense of hopefulness, the Power Source program helps high-risk adolescents dramatically change the course of their lives. Power Source is utilized by youth workers, mental health professionals and teachers at over 3,500 organizations nationwide, including juvenile detention centers, probation and parole departments, residential treatment centers, transitional group homes, private and public school systems, and community programs. . Every minute in the U.S. a child is born to a teen parent, most of whom lack the emotional literacy skills needed to raise emotionally healthy children. The newest component of Lionheart's youth initiative, Power Source Parenting: Growing Up Strong and Raising Healthy Kids, gives these teen parents the skills they need to become effective and nurturing caregivers. Power Source Parenting provides an opportunity to create new family patterns of positive parenting, impacting not only the lives of thousands of teen parents but also their children and future generations. Among the topics that Power Source Parenting addresses are: creating a healthy attachment to one's child; managing the stress of parenting; teaching positive discipline; reducing domestic violence and building healthy relationships with partners; and promoting the delay of future child bearing. Since its publication in 2008, more than 16,000 copies of Power Source Parenting have been distributed free to hospitals, home visiting nurse programs, residential homes and shelters, community-based parenting programs, and high schools serving teen parents. Additionally, large child welfare agencies and court-ordered parenting programs have begun implementing the program. Establish the youth programs as evidence-based (building on the NIH funded research for Power Source that is currently underway and the pilot study for Power Source Parenting that is currently underway) to significantly widen the distribution, and therefore the impact of the programs. The National Emotional Literacy Project for Prisoners (The Houses of Healing Program) has transformed programming in hundreds of prisons throughout the United States. For more than 20 years, Lionheart has helped prisoners recognize the emotional forces propelling their criminal activity, while helping them take responsibility for the damage their choices have caused. By means of the curriculum, Houses of Healing: A Prisoners Guide to Inner Power and Freedom, thousands of prisoners in all 50 states have been given practical and powerful tools to take charge of their lives and transform their futures. As a result, the costs to society have been greatly reduced. The vast majority of Houses of Healing are distributed free to prison libraries, prison programs and individual prisoners nationwide. It combines essential tools for change with a keen awareness of the challenges facing incarcerated men and women. Over 90,000 copies of Houses of Healing have been distributed to hundreds of state and federal prisons and county jails throughout the U.S. It is used by prison staff including psychologists, mental health and substance abuse counselors, educators and chaplains, as well as by volunteers.