| Community Based Programs |
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Any community strategies
can not be implemented without recognizing the distinction between proactive and reactive program approaches.
Reactive programs are typically designed to alleviate or reduce symptoms. In contrast, our proactive programs
facilitate healing by supporting individual capacities, strengths and relationships, as well as addressing the
underlying beliefs and symptoms.
Our programs are
person-centered and are designed to integrate four fields of experience-physical, mental, spiritual, and social.
In the process of encouraging a sense of connection and inclusion in the community’s cultural, social and
economic resources; we believe that a restoration of spirit occurs.
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| Health Camp |
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| This program piloted in
2005 was a summer camp for young people interested in healthy and sustainable living experiences. The camp
involved youth in a “reality film making adventure” that saw them visiting and filming their experiences in the
community.
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The youth involved were given access to government agencies, businesses and non-profits, where they learned from
staff and mentors on location what impacts their ability to live healthy and sustainable lives. On location, the
youth engaged in experiential exercises and were encouraged to ask questions of the “community educators”. The
purpose of the program was to be promote healthy habits, as well as the health of our community and planet,
instead of waiting for a problem (such as obesity) to occur. |
| The program received a
great deal of media attention and a 3.5 minute story featured on channel 4 News highlighted the innovativeness
of the program. The program was truly a community effort, involving 28 businesses, 18 non-profits and 8 citizens
of the community coming together to promote healthy and sustainable living to the next generation. |
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| Insight Films |
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| Insight Films provides young people with
opportunities to make socially responsible films about issues affecting the community and their personal well being. Youth are
trained in camera operation and film making techniques.
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| Arthouse Program |
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| The Arthouse program engages young
people in creative projects which support the values and missions of regional non-profits. Our Love of Children Foundation
believes that the creative process is beneficial to personal growth and self-expression.
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| 2006 “Peace Tents Project” |
| Our latest project is a
joint effort between Our Love of Children Foundation and Hope for Madagascar. It’s objective is to connect
children in the United States with children in Madagascar and use art to teach social responsibility. Tents
supplied by the Boulder Army Surplus Store and the Davis Tent Company are being transformed into “Peace Tents”
to be exchanged between the two countries. .The tents will be used by children in Madagascar to create
micro- businesses, which are important to the survival of the people and the environment. |
| On Feb 16, 2006 Fanja
Rakotonira, president of Hope for Madagascar, took one of the tents to Kelilalina, a village in the rainforest
of Ranomafana, Madagascar, where she gathered children from the Kelilalina Public Primary School to paint a tent
for Boulder Children. Fanja has brought the tent back to Boulder where it is being displayed at fundraising
events and serving to inspire Boulder children to participate in the “Peace Tent” project. |
| Bryce Brown and Fanja
Rakotonirina are in the process of recruiting Boulder children to help paint a tent for Madagascar children.
Once the tent is completed, it will be sent to the children in the village of Ranomafana, where it will be
erected as a permanent facility for teaching children art and business skills for selling their artworks to
tourists. |
Children from the
village of Ranomafana, a small village in the rainforest of Madagascar paint the “Peace Tent”
for children in Boulder, Colorado.
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