The most important factor in a child's academic achievement and personal success is a healthy level of self-confidence. The lives of our young people today, however, are challenged by realities that significantly lower their confidence in themselves. Low self-confidence results in self-defeating behaviors.
The GO FOR IT! Program provides immunization against self-defeating behaviors, and much more!
In issues of well-being, we have come to understand there is nothing more powerful than PREVENTION. This paradigm shift in how we address physical health and wellness is what is needed in education. We must provide educators, families and children with the knowledge required to develop life-long, healthy self-confidence which then allows an individual to reach their personal potential.
The GO FOR IT! Program is unique because it provides the "how-to" for creating success academically and personally across age, gender and economic boundaries.
As a result, GO FOR IT! students:
- Develop personal dreams and goals
- Understand what it takes to succeed
- Learn they have the ability to succeed
- Become persistent in repeating and sustaining achievement
Since this program was first presented in 1984, classroom teachers have reported significant, positive changes in their students. Teachers report that GO FOR IT! students:
- Accept responsibility for themselves and their actions
- Set and live by personal values
- Set and work toward goals
- Live up to their academic potential
- Display an outgoing personality
- Cooperate and are helpful to others
- Have a variety of interests
- Are enthusiastic and motivated
- Develop the desire to succeed
As an Institute, we are committed to making a difference for the students, educators and families that are positively impacted by the continual development of our programs and resources. This is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization created in 2004 to promote, teach, grow, and maintain the GO FOR IT! Program.
