Our History
Positive CHOICES was incorporated in July of 2003 and obtained 501c3 recognition in November of that same year. Our organization was founded with the vision of becoming a catalyst for building empowered communities by teaching, motivating and supporting teens, young adults and their families to make well-informed, constructive decisions.

In keeping with our mission, over the past five years, we have provided services to thousands of teens, parents, churches and non-profit youth organizations, across the Eastern United States including:

  • Facilitating regularly scheduled risk prevention and mentoring activities for small groups of local teens
  • Making Keynote Presentations during numerous Abstinence Education and Delinquency Prevention Conferences
  • Co-hosting several Youth Empowerment Retreats
  • Presenting STD education and prevention information at Teen and Community Health Seminars

Our Seminars
Positive Choices has a network of dedicated volunteers who assist us in delivering power packed teen seminars covering a wide variety of contemporary topics. All of our seminars can be tailored to meet the needs of audiences of various ages and sizes. Some of our most popular seminars include:

  • Daughter’s of Integrity Virtue & Spirituality (DIVAS’ Keepin’ It Real) Young Ladies Empowerment Conference(s)
  • High Five (Small Group Esteem Enhancing Activity)
  • HIV/AIDS & STD’s – They’re More Than Just Statistics
  • MY LIFE: Young Black & Infected – STD Awareness
  • Parenting 101: The Birds & Bees for the Hip Hop Generation
  • The Me I’m Destined to Be (Elementary School Students)
  • U Don’t Know Me: Cultivating an Honorable Story

Our Programs
Positive Choices offers a variety of esteem-enhancing programs for teen girls age 10–17. Most of our programs have been structured to allow us the flexibility of offering them as optional compliments to the programming offered at established or growing after-school and/or community-based programs.

  • Roots & Wings (Abstinence Education & Life Skills Training)
    A curriculum based Abstinence Education Program for Middle or High School Students..
  • Wonderfully Made (Fashion Design & Modeling Club)
    An esteem enhancing program for girls age 10-17. During this 9–session program, girls begin to develop basic sewing skills; to practice basic beauty and grooming regimens; to develop etiquette, manners and social graces; to learn how to select fashionably appropriate clothing; and, to develop basic runway modeling skills. The program culminates with an exciting Fashion & Talent Extravaganza.
    Applications are available June 15 – July 30; Program Runs September – May.
  • K.W.U. Book Club (Knowledge, Wisdom & Understanding; Pronounced ‘Q’ Club; begins Fall ‘08)
    A book club for teens age 12–17. Every other month the KWU Club reads classic literary pieces and contemporary books featuring diverse young women whose strong sense of self enabled them to overcome and triumph in the face of discrimination, poverty and difficult circumstances. By participating in this exciting Book Club, members will re-kindle their desire to achieve socially and academically. And through lively book discussions, Club Members also increase their reading proficiency, critical reasoning skills, and confidence in verbalizing their opinions; ultimately helping to restore their self esteem and hope for a POSITIVE future.
  • Youth Delinquency Prevention Counseling (by appointment only)
    Basic counseling for teens and parents provided by lay Christian ministers and mentors, by appointment only.

   

Our Founder
Born and raised in South Florida, author and inspirational speaker Tymira Williams Mack admits that she was once an “Honors student by day…and a drug smoking, extremely promiscuous teen by night.”

And while her educational achievements afforded her numerous college scholarships and a very successful 10+ year public sector career, she has also had to live with the devastating realities of her former lifestyle choices.
  

Today, via Positive CHOICES, Tymira devotes herself to teaching teens to make wise choices about their health, their education, their extracurricular activities, and their future.

Make the POSITIVE CHOICE to support teens TODAY
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