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Programs

Built for the parent and the youth.

Every MGI program follows the top-down system: the parent is prepared first, so the growth reaches the child. Here is what that looks like in practice.

Program 01

Parental Workshops

The heart of the top-down system. Parents and their youth are trained together to communicate, learn, and build a better rapport with one another — in a setting where the parent's growth is treated as seriously as the child's.

  • Intervention, mediation, and coping methods
  • Closing the gap in language and environment
  • Guidance on housing, jobs, education, and trade schooling
Program 02

Youth Mentoring & Daily Check-ins

Consistent, personal support for the young person — a daily check-up phone conversation, help staying on top of school work, and mentoring that promotes an excellent rapport with parents, schooling, and extra-curricular activities.

  • Daily check-in calls
  • School work support
  • Shelter, appeal, diction, and proper etiquette
Program 03

Field Trips, Site Visits & Camps

Mobilizing families out of their environment to different locations — new adventures, camp-like settings, and fun, exciting trips across the region that broaden new vision and horizon, visually.

  • Local and regional field trips
  • Camp-like group settings
  • Reports shared with both parent and youth afterward
Workshop tracks

Three subjects we don't skip.

Each track is grounded in current federal guidance and evidence-based programs.

Anti-Bullying

When bullying overlaps with discriminatory harassment based on race, national origin, sex, disability or religion, federally-funded schools have an obligation to resolve it — and families should know their options with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

Drug Awareness

Built on the Surgeon General's Facing Addiction in America report and the keepin' it REAL curriculum — building social, emotional, cognitive and substance-refusal skills with accurate information about peer use.

Sex Education

Medically accurate, age-appropriate education aligned with the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) and the Office of Adolescent Health's evidence-based approach to preventing unintended pregnancy and STIs.

Interested in a program for your family?

Call or email Shavon directly. MGI serves Albany, the Capital Region, and surrounding areas.

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