AMY’S Kids is an online program designed to reach kids, parents, and families in Okmulgee and Okfuskee Counties, and around the world. Anne Moroney Youth Services is the agency behind AMY’S Kids. Anne Moroney Youth Services is also known as Okmulgee-Okfuskee County Youth Services. AMY’S Kids videos and activities highlight the following curriculums: Steps to Respect, Botvin Lifeskills Training, Positive Action, Common Sense Education – Media’s Digital Citizenship, and Character Counts! Look for other topics like outside, inside, and all-around safety tips, good health, and hygiene practices, and outdoor adventures.
AMY’S Kids is an online program designed to reach kids, parents, and families in Okmulgee and Okfuskee Counties, and around the world. Anne Moroney Youth Services is the agency behind AMY’S Kids. Anne Moroney Youth Services is also known as Okmulgee-Okfuskee County Youth Services. AMY’S Kids videos and activities highlight the following curriculums: Steps to Respect, Botvin Lifeskills, Positive Action, Common Sense Digital Citizenship, and Character Counts! Look for other topics like outside, inside, and all-around safety tips, good health, and hygiene practices, and outdoor adventures.
Anne Moroney Youth Services has two locations. The main office is located at 1950 North Okmulgee in Okmulgee, OK and the second office is located at 219 West Broadway in Okemah, OK.
The Community Education Coordinators at Anne Moroney Youth Services teach a variety of curriculums including Character Counts!, Steps to Respect, Botvin Lifeskills Training, Common Sense Digital Citizenship, and Positive Action.
CHARACTER COUNTS! utilizes its Six Pillars of Character: Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring, and Citizenship as a foundational strategy while incorporating other nation’s best-practices and methodologies. Besides emphasizing and promoting a focus on a positive school climate, other defining elements of CHARACTER COUNTS! are intensive decision-making strategies, mindfulness, growth mindset, and behavioral change theories. CHARACTER COUNTS! practical strategies produce exceptional results in the academic, social, emotional, and character development domains (The Four Wheels of Success).
Steps to Respect is an anti-bullying curriculum that focuses on respect and friendship. Students learn the three R’s which include: Recognize – What bullying looks like, sounds like, and feels like. Refuse – How to refuse bullying. Report – Who to report to, when to report, and what to report.
Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST) is a research-validated substance abuse prevention program proven to reduce the risks of alcohol, tobacco, drug abuse, and violence by targeting the major social and psychological factors that promote the initiation of substance use and other risky behaviors. This comprehensive and exciting program provides adolescents and young teens with the confidence and skills necessary to successfully handle challenging situations. Rather than merely teaching information about the dangers of drug abuse, Botvin LifeSkills Training promotes healthy alternatives to risky behavior through activities designed to teach students the necessary skills to resist social (peer) pressures to smoke, drink, and use drugs, help students to develop greater self-esteem and self-confidence, enable students to effectively cope with anxiety, increase their knowledge of the immediate consequences of substance abuse, and enhance cognitive and behavioral competency to reduce and prevent a variety of health risk behaviors.
Common Sense Digital Citizenship teaches students skills to participate fully in their communities and make smart choices online and in life. The curriculum addresses top concerns for schools, prepares students with critical 21st-century skills, all while supporting educators and engaging the whole community through family outreach.
Positive Action is based on the intuitive philosophy that we feel good about ourselves when we do positive actions. The Thoughts-Actions-Feelings Circle (TAF) illustrates how this works in life: our thoughts lead to actions and those actions lead to feelings about ourselves which in turn lead to more thoughts. When this cycle is negative, students do not want to learn. When this cycle is positive, students want to learn. The essence of the program is to emphasize those actions that promote a healthy and positive cycle. The Positive Action program works through these concepts in a systematic way.
