KIKS

Kids Intervention with Kids in School

Kids Intervention with Kids in School (KIKS) is a school based youth development and primary prevention program. KIKS utilizes adolescents as positive role models working with groups of pre-adolescents. The KIKS model focuses on the "root causes" of self-destructive adolescent behaviors; and works with young people to build confidence, communication, decision making and appropriate conflict resolution skills. KIKS helps students develop and enhance "life skills" so that their adolescent experiences can be more positive, productive and peaceful. Students practice these skills throughout the school year to help themselves and their peers prevent high-risk behaviors.

KIKS is operated by The Children's Home Society of NJ (CHS) began in 1987 serving several schools in Mercer County and now is in its fifth consecutive year at Grace A. Dunn Middle School in Trenton, NJ. KIKS serves over three hundred 6th grade students and thirty 7th and 8th grade students. KIKS is in its seventh consecutive year at John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton, NJ. The "Gents" as the KIKS program is named at the John Witherspoon Middle School services fifteen 8th grade male students who have been identified as "at risk" according to the school principal and guidance counselor. The KIKS program named Positive Response Organization at the Cranbury School in Cranbury, NJ is in its inaugural year serving forty 7th and 8th grade male students.

For more information about our school based services, please contact Louise Shabazz via email at or via telephone at 609-695-6274 ext. 151.