SMILE
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Mission Statement
Our Mission The mission of SMILE is twofold: 1. Provide adults, parents, teachers, and medical professionals with the tools, education, and resources they need to effectively teach and demonstrate critical life skills. 2. Provide children and young people with the life skills they need to be aware of consequences and alternatives of their actions, thus empowering them to make self-enhancing choices. SMILE understands some accepted practices and institutions in our society create inordinate levels of stress and can serve to dehumanize and alienate our children. These stress levels can lead to depression and/or a sense of hopelessness that these children aren’t equipped to handle. In such circumstances, these young people frequently turn to self-destructive behaviors. It is SMILE’s objective to modify, through education, these practices and institutions, while at the same time empowering our children to cope with any challenge life might present.
About This Cause
Who We Are SMILE, a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization, was formed after the suicide of Craig Toribara. Many dehumanizing experiences are forced on our youth by critical areas of society. Increasing stress results in escalating alcohol/drug use, anorexia, bulimia, dropping out of school, running away from home, increasing violence, and suicide. We intend to help change this destructive trend through education. This education will include, but not be limited to, development and promotion of life-skills programs, building resiliency, healthy solutions, and awareness/prevention programs. We intend to empower youth to find solutions to emotional pain and hope for their futures through various media. We develop educational materials andwork with existing programs. We intend to meet our goals by reaching out to individuals from birth through 25 years, locally and in other geographic areas, and educating adults on issues affecting young people.