Two wonderful girls within our programming hold their earthworm terrariums.

Wisdom Projects’ programming and consultations empower us (youth and adults) to build peace within ourselves at home, in school, at work, and on the streets as we do the following:

• Make wise decisions.

• Work through our trauma.

• Manage conflicts instead of resorting to violence, offense, or harm. 

• De-escalate.

• Maintain wholeness and wellness.

We empower ourselves by realizing the evidence-based clinical, organizational, and educational outcomes overviewed on this web-page.

These outcomes are holistic. This means that these outcomes are always overlapping and integrating with each other as we achieve peace and wellness in our bodies, minds, and spirits. 

(Here "spirit" refers to secular ethical considerations of what is just and healthy.)

When we say that our work is "evidence-based," we mean that it is supported by extensive clinical and liberation-centered research. In presenting these outcomes on this web-page, we take care to cite key evidence that supports our approach. 

We continually organize, educate, and achieve three core, interrelated overall milestones:

1. Present in all areas of our lives at home, school, work and in the streets (fully invested in achieving justice and exhibiting peaceful, wise, conscious, liberation-centered decision-making).
2. Well (exhibiting balanced, positive physical, mental, and behavioral health).
3. Safe (being free from violence and adversity).

To achieve these milestones, we push to gain results in these sometimes overlapping 25 metrics and we evaluate the percentage of our community members who fulfill these metrics each year:

1. Ending homicides and suicides. 
2. Reducing evictions. 
3. Strengthening peaceful families. 
4. Disarming. 
5. Reducing domestic and intimate partner violence. 
6. Reducing youth arrests and convictions. 
7. Reducing adult incarceration. 
8. Reducing violence against women, trans, nonbinary, and LGBTQ+ individuals. 
9. Reducing verbal violence. 
10. Cultivating recovery for addictions.
11. Reducing corporal punishment.
12. Elevating mental health. 
13. Reducing stress and anxiety. 
14. Uplifting leadership capacities.
15. Cultivating improved senses of self. 
16. Coping with poverty. 
17. Coping with bias. 
18. Improved scholastic achievement plus eliminating suspension, expulsion, and truancy. 
19. Improved foodways. 
20. Enhanced disease prevention.
21. Ending participation in major or serious crimes or felonies.
22. Ending sex trafficking.
23. Ending child sexual abuse, assault, molestation, and/or rape.
24. Ending adult sexual abuse, assault, molestation, and/or rape.
25. Ending predatory grooming. 

CLICK HERE to visit our Impact webpage to learn specific data and statistics about how we have eliminated or reduced violence and adversity in each of these metrics. On that webpage we also explain how we measure our success and evaluate our approach.

The rubric "present, well, and safe" comes from Brenda Strong Nixon (1943-2001).