SSAMC is so excited and honored to serve the children of Georgia! Our mission is to cultivate creativity by providing all middle and high school students and young adults with exemplary personalized and supportive learning programs that will create innovative ideas within and provide them with strategies, techniques, and tools to be successful in their endeavors. Today’s Children, Tomorrow Leaders!

 

SSAMC After-school Program, which focuses on at-risk teenagers and students with disabilities is a well-rounded program that provides students with the opportunity to succeed, learn, and be challenged so their confidence in academics as well as social situations grows. We provide homework assistant, specialized tutoring, social skills development, life skills training, technology and integrated programs for both our students with disabilities and our at-risk teenagers. We also provide all students with the opportunity to participate in community service so they can build social connections within their communities. Both at-risk students and students with disability tend to have low self-esteem and low expectations for their success on novel and challenging tasks and are not motivated to see them completed. This is why SSAMC designed our after-school program so students who are involved can feel more committed to academics and more optimistic about their future. Students like the way achievement feels and they are cultivated and drawn into the emotions and the feeling of success.

 

SSAMC after school program complements the material that students see during the school day and focus on subjects that may be under-emphasized in schools. Programs that are demanding and offer challenging and relevant activities have the best chance of yielding positive academic outcomes. To ensure that these programs are effective, it requires a collaboration effort from our staff, parents, and students.

 

Our Mentorship Program is designed to promote awareness, creativity, discipline, and vision. Our mentors come from all walks of life, but they all have one purpose and that is to rear our children in the right direction. The mentoring program at SSAMC will allow both parents and student to grow in a great family environment that will lead to positive relationships. During many of our programs, students and parents will work together on relationship and life skills that will help both live in a positive and healthy environment.

 

In our community many underprivileged children have not ventured far outside their neighborhoods for various reasons, but SSAMC would like to narrow that gap by providing children with an opportunity to expand and explore their minds so they will learn how to think outside the box and broaden their horizons. SSAMC outings range from a visit to a local park or museum to a stroll on a college campus or a simple picnic outside. Through connections with trusted mentors and exposure to activities, a child can develop a better vision for his or her future beyond the limited horizons that hold back far too many children

 

Parent Classes. Parents are an extremely important part to the success of our program. Once the students and young adults complete the program, the parent(s) will be instrumental in helping their child reach their short and long-term goals in life. We often use the phrase "at-risk" when speaking about our students; however, there are many times that our parents are at-risk as well. There's no blue-print to parenting a child and sometimes dealing with a child who have challenges in school can be a challenge. Children desperately requires discipline and structure to stay focused and on task; however, some parents are just overwhelmed and are screaming for help. When a child acts out or becomes so undisciplined where the parents are no longer able to control the child, this leads to disruption in the household and the entire family is in chaos. In an instance, the family dynamics have negatively shifted and the entire family has become impacted significantly by the behavior of the child. Where does a parent(s) go from here?

 

SSAMC realizes that some parents lack the education and/or the resources to assist their child and identify the issues they are facing. Many parents have no knowledge or how things got out of hand or where they went wrong and this leads to frustration for the parents. To help with this process, we have designed classes that will focus on challenges and struggles parents face daily that hinders them in their parental role as parents. SSAMC has partnered with several agencies that will hold a parenting workshop on counseling and therapy, coping mechanisms, skill building, and strategies to help deal with at-risk as well as students with disabilities. For parents who need academic services there will be workshops for GED preparation for parents who did not complete high school, GED preparation, reading and writing workshops, and much more. Whatever we can do to help better the parent, will help the child, and ultimately build a cohesive and healthy family structure. SSAMC is not only here to build children, we are here to build families, which build communities.

 

We look forward to serving your entire family at SSAMC.