Mission Statement
Providing services, supports and strategies that empower individuals to become effective leaders, who gain the emotional fortitude to navigate business and personal relationships, seek individual and collective success, and gain long-term employability, while maintaining stable, life-affirming and productive lives. We support and guide them as they learn how to MAKE LIFE WORK!!
vision Statement
Participants in the Making Life Work Project will help create a world in which youth, young adults, and single parents, learn to use their personal power to become productive citizens who fulfill their personal and professional goals, and contribute to the betterment of society.
The Making life work project
Our Model for Service Provision
Much of our work is completed during peer-to-peer and small group mentoring and training. Evidence demonstrates that those close in age who have done and succeeded, are often the best teachers of those who are attempting to do and succeed.
We combine this ‘leaders raising leaders’ model with personal and professional skills exploration and training opportunities with licensed, and more skilled adult leaders.
Programming includes De-escalation, Building Emotional Fortitude, Skills Development (Communicating Effectively, Mean What You Say (non-verbal communication), Anger Management and Conflict Resolution, Basic Life Skills, etc.)
our touchpoints
Weekly Zoom Meetings
Leadership/Professional Development, Emotional and Spiritual exploration, Conflict resolution, Problem resolution and more.
ANNUAL MAKING LIFE WORK CONFERENCE
An opportunity for area high school seniors, and first-year college students to gain strategies for life.
-Hosted by St. Louis Community College - 2017
-Hosted by Harris Stowe State University students - 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 (online)
One-On-Ones with Executive Director
These meetings are private and personal. They provide individual participants with a space to share concerns, challenges, fears and professional or personal support needs. They also serve as times for evaluation of participation/growth.
OUR PROGRAM GOALS
Our participants will understand who they are and why they exist, through strategies that help them:
-Gain/develop personal and professional skills that improve life outcomes and success
-Build healthy and productive dating, personal, familial, social and professional relationships
-Positively impact the lives of others, and the communities in which they live
-Manage their emotions and apply De Escalation techniques and strategies to help prevent violence and potential negative consequences
-Consistently gain victory over tough life situations and build emotional fortitude and stamina
-Discover, explore and perfect their gifts, talents and abilities, within a safe and protected environment
-Inhabit spaces where they can grow at their own pace and examine all that life has to offer, in a non-judgmental environment
-Improve their basic life skills
-Demonstrate accountability, to themselves and others
“This program has truly helped me become more self-aware and resilient in the face of adversity. The engaging exercises and the supportive community have given me amazing insights into my strengths and areas where I can grow. I now tackle challenges with a renewed sense of confidence and purpose!”
Testimonials
“The Make Life Work project has made me more secure in the calling of God over my life. It has opened my eyes that no matter how big or small the space is, God can move if they are willing for the encounter. Making Life work project has shown me how to trust God with my entire life no matter the situation. It has shown me that I can be a leader in whatever space I choose to possess if he called me to the space.”
“Dr. Nina has helped me become the woman that I am today! I’ve grown both spiritually and professionally under her leadership and I am beyond grateful, thankful, and blessed to know her and be a part of her amazing program.”
“She sincerely has a heart for people, and she walks in wisdom, knowledge, and humility; a rare combination in today’s leaders.”
“Dr. Thompson is a powerhouse who knows exactly how to say what needs to be said in ways that people get it! She sincerely has a heart for people, and she walks in wisdom, knowledge, and humility; a rare combination in today’s leaders. She is a leader among leaders who is purposefully shifting the lives of others.”