Spanish Language Resources
We offer more than 60 curriculum resources available in both Spanish and English.
Prevention Curriculum: Currículo Phoenix
As a comprehensive Spanish-language gang prevention program, this program is part of our comprehensive gang prevention curriculum. This program includes the following comprehensive program areas made up of short lessons adapted from our core program:
- What's Important to You? (Goals, Dreams, and Values)
- Understanding Your Feelings (Emotional Intelligence)
- Problem Solving (avoiding impulsive thinking, problem recognition, consequential thinking, alternative solution thinking, weighing pros and cons, means-ends thinking, planning, gang prevention).
- Risk Factors (including skills for Avoidance, Escape, and Refusal, gang prevention)
- Protective Factors (gang prevention)
These materials are customized for grade 6, middle school, high school, and alternative schools.
Intervention: Manuales del Programa de Intervención a las Pandillas
The following workbooks are critical elements in a Spanish-language gang intervention program. The program is part of our comprehensive curriculum.
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| GG1 | What Was On Your Mind? Spanish: ¿Qué tenías en mente? (Estado de mente pandillero) |
This is an important workbook, a cognitive restructuring approach to gang activity. It identifies selected negative mind-sets common to people involved in gang activity. Then, it addresses each of these in a systematic fashion, identifying weaknesses in that form of thinking, and offering guidance in the development of a more positive outlook. | 8 |
| GG2 | Who Wants to be at Risk? Spanish: ¿Quién quiere estar a riesgo? |
This workbook addresses the "risk factors" approach to gang involvement and activity. The objective is for participants to identify their own highest risk factors and acknowledge that these risks and temptations will be out there, waiting, upon release. | 14 |
| GG3 | What do You Need? (needs and gangs) Spanish: ¿Qué necesitas? (Las necesidades y las pandillas) |
This workbook — based on Maslow's needs hierarchy theory — addresses gang activity from the point of view of underlying needs. These needs won't go away; they will be present when the participants return to the community. Thus this workbook guides the participants in finding alternative — and better — ways to meet those needs than gangs or crime. | 6 |
| GG4 | Living a Nonviolent Life #1 Spanish: Viviendo una vida sin violencia #1 |
This workbook provides the opportunity for clients to identify their triggers and highest personal risk factors for violence and to develop strategies to avoid these issues or to cope more effectively in the future. | 10 |
| GG5 | Living a Nonviolent Life #2 Spanish: Viviendo una vida sin violencia # 2 |
This workbook provides a more focused opportunity for clients to identify their highest risk factors for violence (the people, places, things, times, and situations where they are at highest risk). It guides the development of "environmental control" strategies to avoid these issues and situations — and helps clients explore their options. | 8 |
| GG7 | Understanding Yourself #1 Spanish: Comprendiendote a ti mismo #1 |
This is the "risk factors" approach to aggression and violence. It provides an alternative approach to violence issues and behavior, addressing community and family risk factors for violence. For clients, the objective is to begin by increasing awareness. Then, clients can admit that they have these risk factors and acknowledge that these risks and temptations will be out there, waiting, upon release. | 9 |
| GG8 | Understanding Yourself #2 Spanish: Comprendiendote a ti mismo #2 |
This is the "risk factors" approach to passive-aggressive behavior, which can often lead to violence and other problems. It provides an alternative approach to violence, addressing community and family risk factors for this passive-aggressive behavior. (Approach is similar to GG7, above) | 5 |
| GG13a | Gang Intervention Resources: Where Are Your Old Friends Today? Spanish: Recursos para la intervención de pandillas: ¿Donde están hoy tus viejos amigos? |
Participants will explore options leading to gang involvement—or staying away from gangs. | 2 |
| GG13b | Gang Intervention Resources: Criminal Values Spanish: Recursos para la intervención de pandillas: Valores criminales |
Participants will explore areas of criminogenic thinking and values. | 2 |
| GG13c | Gang Intervention Resources: Respect Spanish: Recursos para la intervención de pandillas: Respecto |
Participants will explore issues relating to "respect." This activity addresses the respect they give others, as well as ways to gain respect from others. | 3 |
| GG13d | Gang Intervention Resources: How To Identify Your Real Friends Spanish: Recursos para la intervención de pandillas: Cómo identificar tus amigos verdaderos |
Participants will explore issues relating to true friendship. | 1 |
| GG13e | Gang Intervention Resources: Thinking About Stereotypes Spanish: Recursos para la intervención de pandillas: Pensando sobre los estereotipos |
This activity addresses the issues of stereotyping and prejudice. | 2 |
| GG14 | Getting Away From the Gang Spanish: Alejandose de la pandilla |
Comprehensive manual, providing suggestions, action planning, and support to assist in leaving the gang. Includes typical situations for role-playing practice and self-efficacy. | 9 |