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Unfeigned International: RISE Initiatives & Core Programs

🔵 RISE: Youth Mental Health & Peer Mentorship

Primary Focus: Mental wellness, peer leadership, and resilience support

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🧠 RISE Stronger

Building Emotional Strength, One Step at a Time

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  • Peer mentorship & trauma-informed group circles

  • Mental wellness workshops, mindfulness, and resilience-building

  • Access to resilience toolkits and supportive care

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🤝 RISE Together

Creating Safe Spaces, Strengthening Connections

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  • Youth hubs and virtual spaces for safe connection

  • Community engagement, family outreach, and advocacy

  • Youth-led social action and advocacy projects

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🌀 Part of the RISE Together Initiative

Community Capacity Building is a core strategy of our RISE Together initiative—supporting youth and families by uplifting local leadership, cross-cultural healing, and the power of community-driven change.
Through localized partnerships, peer mentorship, and culturally grounded wellness ecosystems, we help communities rise—together.

🎨 Creative Healing & Expression

Primary Focus: Arts-based wellness, cultural pride, and creative identity

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🎭 RISE Creatively

Unleashing Creativity, Elevating Voices

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  • Visual arts, music, dance, and storytelling workshops

  • Art therapy for healing and emotional expression

  • Annual showcases, creative challenges, and exhibits

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Core Programs:

  • Through A New Lens: Photography & film storytelling expressing artistic and personal development

  • RISE Healing Sounds Network: Music therapy and expression for healing

  • Layers Unseen - Emotion in Motion: Art reflection and experimentation building self-confidence and identity

💼 Roots & Wings: Youth Wellness Cooperative

Primary Focus: Youth-led wellness business, entrepreneurship, and leadership

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🚀 RISE as Leaders

Empowering Changemakers of Tomorrow

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  • Leadership boot camps, public speaking and youth innovation labs

  • Internships, mentorships, and social entrepreneurship

  • 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

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📘 RISE Academically

Skills for Success, Knowledge for Life

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  • Financial literacy, job readiness, and communication skills

  • Personal growth, digital literacy, and entrepreneurship training

  • College access, scholarships, and goal-setting programs

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RISE Academically supports all youth across core programs with foundational life and learning skills.

🌍 Global Youth Connect

Primary Focus: International cultural wellness, equity, and youth empowerment

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Unfeigned International’s Global Youth Connect is a bold, community-rooted and globally adaptable expansion of our healing-centered programs—cultivating wellness, resilience, and leadership through culturally grounded experiences that uplift diverse identities and communities around the world.

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We engage youth around the world through:

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  • ✨ Localized RISE Tracks — Stronger, Together, and Creatively—customized to reflect local cultural strengths, languages, and youth needs

  • 🤝 Peer Mentorship and arts-based healing rooted in local traditions, identity, and lived experience

  • 🎨 Youth-led Outreach & Creative Expression that nurtures pride, purpose, and possibility

  • 🌱 Culturally Affirming Models of care that center community, storytelling, and holistic well-being

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🇨🇻 Cape Verde Pilot

  • Celebrates Creole identity, island resilience, and intergenerational healing

  • Delivered in Cape Verdean Creole and Portuguese

  • Co-designed with local educators, artists, and wellness leaders

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🇧🇷 Brazil Expansion (2026 Launch Target)

  • Focused on youth empowerment through art, movement, and cultural expression

  • Regional partnerships in Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo

  • Delivered in Portuguese with peer-led circles, creative labs, and academic support

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🌐 Vision for Global Reach:
From islands to urban neighborhoods, Global Youth Connect adapts Unfeigned’s core values—healing, belonging, and youth power—to local contexts worldwide. We welcome international partners to co-create spaces that reflect each community’s unique voices, rhythms, and needs.

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🇨🇻 Programs delivered in Cape Verde incorporate culturally-rooted, Afro-diasporic approaches to wellness and expression.

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