Got Grit! Groups for Children & Youth
The Got Grit group coaches and supports children/ youth and provides them with the effective tools to gain insight into their strengths and become more resilient in the face of life stressors and hardship. This group teaches young people how to be compassionate towards themselves and others and it broadly addresses issues related to emotions regulation (i.e., anxiety, sadness, anger etc.), effective communication, developing healthy/prosocial relationships, self-care, and effective conflict resolution skills.
The aim of the Got Grit group is to build character strength, strengthen individual autonomy, improve overall human functioning and well-being. The program is intended to reduce mental health symptoms including anxiety and depression, improve social relationships, improve the self-view of the young person as well as their overall happiness.
Program Structure
Our Got Grit group is uniquely tailored either to older children (ages 7-11: The ‘Got Grit’ group for Children) or youth (ages 12-16: The ‘Got Grit’ group for Youth). This group is a fun, interactive, activity-based psycho-educational closed format program for a duration of 8 weeks that supports and encourages children to become more resilient by identifying their strengths and building on these strengths.
The Got Grit! program is 90 minutes for a duration of 8 weeks.
We utilize pro-social Peer Mentors to support and help our professional staff team deliver our Got Grit group for children and youth. Our Peer Mentors are meticulously screened, high achieving pro-social young people recruited, trained, supported, and supervised by qualified professionals to support with delivery of programs. Young people know how best to relate to, or communicate with other young people, and they are likely to turn to other young people for advice, mentorship, and support. It is recognized that peers have a greater influence on health behaviours of youth than parents, teachers, or health professionals (Mellanby, Newcombe, Rees, and Tripp, 2001; Tsong et. al., 2019; Petersen, Nightingale, Millstein, 1993). Peer relationships provide a unique and important context for social-emotional development and adjustment in young people.
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