WOSLAM

The program is structured to implement a reversed hierarchal curriculum that demonstrates effective life skills which result in participants being able to lead self determined and valued lives.

Our program strengthens relationships between the students, faculty, parents and community leaders as we teach and show how coming together creates an environment where youth can grow, feel protected and accepted and excel.

Our events are held across the country help to establish the program’s presence within the community, build rapport with the community’s leaders and residents, and introduce the program to the at-risk and disadvantaged
population we encounter.

SAVING OURSELVES “WOLSAM” CURRICULUM...WE CAN HELP

The “WOLSAM” curriculum is a combination of popular behavioral psychologist, Abraham Maslow’s, Theory of Human Motivation, and Jean Piaget’s, Stages of Cognitive Development. “WOLSAM,” Maslow spelled backwards, represents SOS calculated way of meeting its program participants’ needs. Our curriculum aims to establish and reinforce that every individual has a gift. Although Maslow’s theory has been hailed as the authority on motivation, its strength in theory is not absolute as it pertains to the current diverse global population even though it is used as the blueprint for understanding and prioritizing human needs. It is SOS’s understanding, Maslow’s case studies were conducted in a time before the internet and emerging impact of global communication. It focuses on a certain segment of the population, the forty year old Caucasian male, which makes this theory more of a hierarchal approach for this specific group and not necessarily representative of the general motivation model to be applied to the mass population.

The program is structured to implement a reversed hierarchal curriculum that demonstrates effective life skills which result in participants being able to lead self-determined and valued lives.

WOSLAM

We have discovered, having researched countless, documented, and conducted case studies of at-risk individuals that Maslow’s placement of “self actualization” as the last need is actually first on the list of needs for the disadvantaged demographic which we serve. Over the last ten years, with over half a million disadvantaged and at-risk individuals from Urban epicenters throughout the Country as far north as Detroit, the South in New Orleans and as far West as Compton, we at SOS have discovered this common thread existing amongst this culture. This finding has significantly impacted our approach to training and outreach as we understand the plight of this perceived disadvantaged population will forgo their physiological, safety and security needs in order to obtain affirmation and a sense of belonging. Therefore, we are able to understand the challenges of this at-risk group and are able to employ our influences in a similar format through a positive systematic approach. Hence, participants are filtered through hands on training designed to meet diversity of their vital needs.

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SavingOurSelves Outreach uses a number of outreach efforts to draw and encourage participation in its program. These events held across the country help to establish the program’s presence within the community, build rapport with the community’s leaders and residents, and introduce the program to the at-risk and disadvantaged population we encounter.

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