The Behavior Services Institute offers seven different programs that address different areas of healing, they are:
Women’s Empowerment/Hagar’s Hangout is a female empowerment program that specializes in the concept of Converting our Strength into Power (CSP). Participants meet to share issues and challenges associated with daily encounters. There are 6 components in Hagar’s Hangout that address and fulfill the needs of women seeking to be empowered through self awareness.
The Adult Basic Education Program (ABE) offers classes to person ages 19 and above. The classes include basic reading, writing, arithmetic and work place literacy. These courses are provided in the context of Job Development. Classes are held twice a week for 12 weeks, 3 hours each session.
Detecting and Managing Anxiety/Depression is an ongoing collaboration with the Colorado Mental Health Association. Partnering with this organization provides each participant an opportunity to be diagnosed relative to the likelihood of suffering depression. Issues associated with this disease and approaches to managing depression are also explored.
Resolving Our Addiction. This program is licensed by the State of Colorado’s Alcohol And Drug Abuse Division. It looks at triggers relative to one’s propensity to use drugs and alcohol, as well as other sources of addiction. This component examines the short cuts we take to avoid pain. One very important point relative to this component is the fact that addiction is not constrained to just drugs and alcohol.
Anger and Stress Management. Toxic anger is one of the powerful, silent killers. We are looking at the difference between toxic and healthy anger. We put into action the quote, “Be angry and sin not. Let not the sun go down on your wrath.”
Understanding Our Children and Managing Them Through Their Life Cycles comprises a series of parenting classes geared toward empowering women to become effective mothers with or without a marital mate. Women learn to recognize that most of their children’s problems are reflections of their own issues with their children transforming through various phases of life. We learn that problem phases are not a function of our kids but rather a function of our inability to deal with our children’s changes.
Multicultural Ethics/Management. Cultural competence is a goal whereby we are empowered to understand our plights within the context of others. We learn to understand and accept the fact that, “intolerance for diversity is a character trait to be managed, not a character flaw to be denied.”