Unfeigned International: Core Programs & RISE Initiatives
🔵 RISE: Youth Mental Health & Peer Mentorship
Primary Focus: Mental wellness, peer leadership, and resilience support
🧠 RISE Stronger
Tagline: Building Emotional Strength, One Step at a Time
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Peer mentorship & trauma-informed group circles
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Mental wellness workshops, mindfulness, and resilience-building
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Access to resilience toolkits and supportive care
🤝 RISE Together
Tagline: Creating Safe Spaces, Strengthening Connections
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Youth hubs and virtual spaces for safe connection
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Community engagement, family outreach, and advocacy
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Youth-led social action and advocacy projects
🎨 Creative Healing & Expression
Primary Focus: Arts-based wellness, cultural pride, and creative identity
🎭 RISE Creatively
Tagline: Unleashing Creativity, Elevating Voices
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Visual arts, music, dance, and storytelling workshops
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Art therapy for healing and emotional expression
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Annual showcases, creative challenges, and exhibits
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Through A New Lens: Photography & film storytelling program
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RISE Healing Sounds Network: Music therapy and expression for healing
💼 Roots & Wings: Youth Wellness Cooperative
Primary Focus: Youth-led wellness business, entrepreneurship, and leadership
🚀 RISE as Leaders
Tagline: Empowering Changemakers of Tomorrow
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Leadership boot camps, public speaking and youth innovation labs
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Internships, mentorships, and social entrepreneurship
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Youth-run co-ops in wellness, self-care products, and culture
📚 RISE Academically: Education & Life Skills Training
Primary Focus: Practical skills, personal development, and academic support
📘 RISE Academically
Tagline: Skills for Success, Knowledge for Life
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Financial literacy, job readiness, and communication skills
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Personal growth, digital literacy, and entrepreneurship training
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College access, scholarships, and goal-setting programs
RISE Academically supports all youth across core programs with foundational life and learning skills.
🌍 Global Youth Connect (Cape Verde Pilot)
Primary Focus: International cultural wellness and equity
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Localized RISE Stronger, Together, and Creatively tracks in Cape Verde
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Peer mentorship and arts-based healing in Afro-diasporic context
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Youth-led community outreach and creative identity-building
🇨🇻 Programs delivered in Cape Verde incorporate culturally-rooted, Afro-diasporic approaches to wellness and expression.
Global Youth Connect is a culturally-rooted expansion of Unfeigned's programs, blending wellness, healing, and local leadership for impact.