I Have Will Power

“The content of the “I Have Will Power Curriculum” is really good.  I especially enjoyed the overview of the “Bubble’s Concept.” - Wanda V. Bailey, Former Resource Coordinator, National Crime Prevention Council

Learning Critical Thinking Is Most Important

We utilized a research-based curriculum, I Have Will Power to teach strategies to combat reacting impulsively.

Why do teens behave the way they do?

The answer to this question has widespread implications in the field of education, mental illness, and juvenile justice and was the centerpiece of a May 2000 White House conference entitled, “Raising Responsible and Resourceful Youth.”  Jay Giedd, a neuroscientist at the National Institute of Mental Health spearheading research on the adolescent brain, explained in a PBS Frontline interview, Inside the Teenage Brain “…that [in the teen years, this] part of the brain that is helping organization, planning and strategies is not done being built yet… It’s sort of unfair to expect them to have adult levels of organizational skills or decision making before their brains is finished being built.”1

In spite of youth’s mental inability to rationalize as adults, in most states in America, they are judged and treated the same as adults when it comes to certain crimes.  “Juveniles, due to this slow maturation of the pre-frontal cortex in the brain should be taught systematically about how to make decisions and understand consequences.”2

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