Our programs are designed to create lasting change by educating, protecting, and advocating for youth and young adults.
"I AM" Youth Leadership & Mentoring Program
The “I AM” Leadership & Mentoring Program is a school and community based initiative designed to educate, empower, and support middle school youth through prevention focused mentoring and leadership development. Implemented in partner middle schools and community settings, the program provides a safe, structured space for students to build confidence, character, and essential life skills.
The program integrates financial literacy, career and college awareness, character education, and leadership skills with gender responsive mentoring through “Girl Talk” and “Brother to Brother” sessions. Youth engage in guided discussions on healthy relationships, boundaries, self-esteem, personal hygiene, etiquette, and the real-life consequences of unsafe choices. Participants are encouraged to express concerns, process day to day experiences, and strengthen communication and decision making skills.
Through positive peer and mentor relationships, the program increases self-awareness, promotes responsible choices, and empowers youth to support one another. The “I AM” Leadership & Mentoring Program equips students with the knowledge, confidence, and tools needed to lead with integrity, recognize risks, and move toward a safe, healthy, and successful future.
Healthy Futures: HIV & STD Prevention Program
This program provides age-appropriate education focused on reducing high-risk behaviors among teens and young adults. Participants receive information on prevention, testing, and healthy decision-making related to HIV and sexually transmitted diseases. Selected youth may be trained as peer educators to support awareness and prevention efforts within their schools and communities. Referrals and linkages to supportive services are provided as needed to address health, wellness, and risk reduction.
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Training
Delivered Vessels, Inc. offers a two-hour evidence-informed workshop that equips adults to prevent, recognize, and respond responsibly to child sexual abuse. The training emphasizes child safety as a shared adult responsibility and provides practical guidance on recognizing warning signs, responding to disclosures, understanding reporting requirements, and implementing protective policies. Trainings are open to the public and commonly serve parents, educators, youth-serving professionals, coaches, faith leaders, and community organizations. Continuing education credits may be available for select professional fields.
Reducing Vulnerabilities: Human Trafficking Awareness & Prevention Program
Reducing Vulnerabilities is Delivered Vessels’ signature human trafficking awareness and prevention program. This program educates youth, families, and community stakeholders on the realities of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, with a strong focus on prevention and risk reduction. Participants learn to recognize grooming behaviors, recruitment tactics, and environmental risk factors, as well as how to respond safely and access help. The program strengthens protective factors, promotes safe decision-making, and empowers participants to speak up for themselves and others while increasing community readiness to prevent exploitation.
Skills for Life: Supportive Services & Pathways to Independence
Skills for Life is Delivered Vessels’ comprehensive supportive services program designed to promote long-term stability, independence, and well-being for youth and young adults impacted by or at risk of abuse, exploitation, and related vulnerabilities. The program reduces risk, strengthens protective factors, and supports safe transitions into adulthood.
Skills for Life integrates housing assistance, scholarship support, career and college planning, workforce readiness, and essential life skills education. Participants receive practical instruction in financial literacy, including budgeting and saving, along with goal setting, self-advocacy, housing readiness, tenant education, and navigation of housing systems. Academic support and scholarship guidance help remove financial barriers to education and training.
Through support and individualized guidance, Skills for Life promotes stability, confidence, and self-sufficiency. The program equips youth and young adults with the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to achieve independence and build a purposeful, sustainable future.
Individual and Group Counseling for Survivors
Delivered Vessels provides access to trauma-informed individual and group counseling for survivors of sexual abuse and exploitation. These services offer a safe, supportive environment where participants experience respect, validation, and appropriate boundaries while working toward healing and recovery. Counseling supports emotional well-being, resilience, and long-term stability, helping survivors process trauma and build healthy, meaningful lives.
My SistasKeeper Women’s Wellness Retreat
My SistasKeeper is a restorative women’s retreat was designed to provide women with intentional space to pause, reconnect, and refocus beyond their daily roles as mothers, wives, entrepreneurs, caregivers, and leaders.
The program centers on sisterhood, self care, and self awareness, offering a supportive environment where women can reflect, heal, and be renewed emotionally and mentally. Through guided discussions, wellness activities, and shared experiences, participants are encouraged to reconnect with themselves, build authentic connections with other women, and leave refreshed, affirmed, and empowered.
