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The ARKGroup

The Children's Center for Self-Esteem, Inc.

(dba The ARKGroup) is a non-profit offering research-based programs that help parents, teachers, and other adults relate to kids in ways that build their self-esteem through nurturing, caring relationships. The program is a tool for encouraging a process of evaluation, thereby enabling families to set in motion new parenting patterns that will enhance the lives of their children and their children's children for generations to come.

02/10/2025

09/16/2024

Hello ARK Friends and Family! 🧩

September 19th is the last day to make your donations. We look forward to seeing your participation in supporting your local Non-Profit Organizations!

Please use the link posted below to directly donate to ARK’s mission ♥️

https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/donate/thearkgroup

04/18/2024

Log on to www.thearkgroup.org and take our award-winning parenting classes!! All of classes are Texas court approved and come with a certificate of completion available for download immediately in a PDF format. Please share this with your friends and family. For questions regarding our classes please contact 713-471-8922 or email [email protected]

03/01/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDQo4WaarMI

PEP Talks Start at the Top!

According to The Institute of Education Science's "School Crime and Safety: 2021", there were a total of 93 school shootings with
casualties at public and private elementary and secondary
schools in 2020–21—the highest number since 2000–01.

Our uniquely developed program PEP (Parent Engagement Program) is designed to target parent/child relationships, with the deliberate objective to aid parents in sending emotionally healthy children to school.

We are very excited to share more of our endeavors in making that happen as we approach the spring school season!

02/21/2023

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/02/16/greg-abbott-state-of-the-state-texas/

https://thearkgroup.org/

ARK Family,

We wanted to follow up on the points of Gov. Greg Abbott's speech on 2/16, which addressed 7 emergency items that lawmakers can vote on immediately. Gov. Greg Abbott has listed making schools safer a top priority for Texas policy makers.

Public school campuses must give careful attention to both the
emotional and mental health of all students as part of their school
safety plans. In order to do so, it is important to recognize the
recent research indicating a distinct difference between mental and
emotional health.

In addressing extreme school violence, understanding the difference between mental and emotional health is critical. Contrary to popular belief, mental illness is not the root cause of the vast majority of school shootings. In fact, the University of Southern Illinois Medical School has presented a study of 157 school shooting incidents concluding that only 17% of the shooters showed signs of mental illness. The primary culprit is emotional illness.

Dr. Heather Lench, chair of the Department of Psychology and Brain
Science at Texas A&M University, says that programs designed to help teachers provide unconditional care and respect benefit all
students, not just those with a potential for violence. School safety
plans should include emotional health programming that helps all
participants on a campus to feel valued, connected and safe.

Our objective here at The ARKGroup is to partner with school administrators and organizational leaders to deliver the tools to every parent in order for them to give unconditional love to each child.

The ARK Group is a non-profit that offers parenting classes and teacher training designed to build a child's self-esteem and self-concept.

12/25/2022

God gave His unconditional love to us through his precious son Jesus. May we offer that love to our children.
The ARKGroup wishes you a wondrous Christmas and a joyful 2023.

11/09/2022

Did you know that The ARKGroup has been conducting a faith-based prison ministry for about 20 years for women who are incarcerated for minor felonies in Plane State Jail in Dayton, TX? Here are just a few of the comments that were shared at yesterday’s ARK board of directors meeting. When these women are released, they hope to incorporate the parenting lessons they learned into their children’s lives.

10/20/2022

This thought for the day is borrowed from author Dr. Bonnie Hubert. “Home Alone” was such a cute movie. Hope this memory makes you laugh.

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About the ARK (Adults Relating to Kids) Group

Kids Who Feel Loved Do Better!

Since its inception in 1992, the ARK (Adults Relating to Kids) Group has been on a mission to improve relationships and build healthy environments through the understanding and application of unconditional love. ARK is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that offers a variety of relational education programs with its flagship curriculums being ARK for Parents and ARK for Teachers.

ARK programs, which also include curriculums for teens, college students and other groups, are research-based, stemming from a study conducted in partnership with the University of Texas School of Public Health. This ground-breaking study revealed a new paradigm for building the self-concept of a child. Rather than being a product of performance, healthy self-esteem is primarily generated by a child receiving unconditional love from an adult (parent, teacher, counselor, etc.) who is central in the child's life. ARK programs were founded and designed based on this principle.

ARK is endorsed by Dr. Robert Brooks, a psychologist at Harvard Medical and one of the world’s leading experts on child resilience. ARK Programs include:

ARK for Parents ARK for Parents (Spanish Version) ARK for Teachers (PreK-Kindergarten, Elementary & Secondary) ARK for Christian Parents ARK for Divorced Parents ARK for Jailed Parents ARK for Kids ARK for Teens ARK for College Students ARK for Hospitals (Coming soon!)

ARK for Teachers Leads to 49% Drop in Out-of-school Suspensions at Aldine ISD

Through its efforts, ARK has helped school districts implement “empathetic teaching” models designed to build the student/teacher relationship through a process of intentionally extending unconditional love and care to students—disciplining their behavior while still valuing them as persons. (Empathetic teaching is distinctly different from authoritative teaching in that it places a much greater emphasis on the prevention of classroom misbehavior with the understanding that kids behave better and perform better for teachers they believe care about them).

Over the last six years, ARK worked with the Aldine Independent School District – the ninth largest school district in Texas – to implement ARK for Teachers at its middle schools. The program included 14 schools involving 20,852 students during the 2011-12 through 2016-17 school years and was tested for effectiveness by a Sam Houston State University research team as the “Aldine ISD Middle School Dropout Prevention Project.” The results showed ninth-grade out-of-school suspensions dropped by 49% over a four-year period for students who had been exposed to ARK-trained teachers during their entire middle school experience compared to students who had not. The program also had positive effects on student retention rates, state exam performance, student attendance, and in-classroom behavior.