Bridging the Gap Gifting Award to be Awarded to:
Patricia A. English, Ph.D. "Life Awareness Center"
Patricia A. English, Ph.D.,
Life Awareness Center
The idea of starting a ranch for boys in Las Cruses, New Mexico came out of the need to better serve our youth by providing a different environment and a new structure for growth. New Mexico is absolutely beautiful, and the air quality is good. Minorities can be seen daily in leadership roles, and if given the opportunity to be outdoors the majority of the time is conducive to working off negative energy.
Dr. English and her staff, under her supervision and acting as the agents, counseled over 200 behaviorally challenging children under a state-wide CORE program in Savannah Georgia. While some aspects of the program were successful, others were not as evident by the bullying in our schools that has continued to perpetuate the highly risky behavior of our black males.
From here, the idea is to take them out of the negative environment, teach them how to garden, how to maintain a home, and how one can structure a life without poverty and without violence by teaching "mindfulness-" how being positive begets positive action and a better life.
Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. wrote in his book Mindsight: “As we grow in our ability to know ourselves we grow receptive to knowing each other. With internal awareness and empathy, self -empowerment and joining, differentiation, we create harmony within the reasoning circuits of our social brains.”
In closing, Love well, Love Much, Laugh Often, Leave a Legacy and Become a Light in this new world.
Patricia A. English, Ph.D.,
The Life Awareness Center is a faith based non-profit organization. It has two issues to deal with-- (1) community development (2) to fulfill the needs of our disenfranchised children. Our children are dealing with grief and loss, abandonment, neglect and poverty, and sexual molestation issues. They need someone to step up to the plate and assist them with all of the issues they are dealing with. The idea for the farm in New Mexico presented itself. It will take them away from the immediate issues and teach them new ways to deal with all of these issues. We will have to raise money to do everything to take care of them, but we will be together working to keep the young people safe and growing in a better,healthier environment.
Life Awareness Center
The idea of starting a ranch for boys in Las Cruses, New Mexico came out of the need to better serve our youth by providing a different environment and a new structure for growth. New Mexico is absolutely beautiful, and the air quality is good. Minorities can be seen daily in leadership roles, and if given the opportunity to be outdoors the majority of the time is conducive to working off negative energy.
Dr. English and her staff, under her supervision and acting as the agents, counseled over 200 behaviorally challenging children under a state-wide CORE program in Savannah Georgia. While some aspects of the program were successful, others were not as evident by the bullying in our schools that has continued to perpetuate the highly risky behavior of our black males.
From here, the idea is to take them out of the negative environment, teach them how to garden, how to maintain a home, and how one can structure a life without poverty and without violence by teaching "mindfulness-" how being positive begets positive action and a better life.
Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. wrote in his book Mindsight: “As we grow in our ability to know ourselves we grow receptive to knowing each other. With internal awareness and empathy, self -empowerment and joining, differentiation, we create harmony within the reasoning circuits of our social brains.”
In closing, Love well, Love Much, Laugh Often, Leave a Legacy and Become a Light in this new world.
Patricia A. English, Ph.D.,
The Life Awareness Center is a faith based non-profit organization. It has two issues to deal with-- (1) community development (2) to fulfill the needs of our disenfranchised children. Our children are dealing with grief and loss, abandonment, neglect and poverty, and sexual molestation issues. They need someone to step up to the plate and assist them with all of the issues they are dealing with. The idea for the farm in New Mexico presented itself. It will take them away from the immediate issues and teach them new ways to deal with all of these issues. We will have to raise money to do everything to take care of them, but we will be together working to keep the young people safe and growing in a better,healthier environment.