PEERS® Enrichment Friendship Activities (PEFA)

Our new PEFA program (PEERS Enrichment and Friendship Activities) is now approved and funded through Harbor Regional Center! Thank you HRC so much for your support to launch this super-fun and important program for friendship practice in the community, after graduating from PEERS!

To kick it off, Our Village is having it's 1st Halloween get-together for TEEN and Young Adult PEERS Graduates!
Do you love to dress up or wear cosplay? Ready to practice your friendship skills and meet new friends? HRC clients, please ask your Service Coordinator for a PEFA Referral to authorize funding for this event! Then email us to sign up at: [email protected]

Private Pay TEEN & Young Adult PEERS Graduates, Please email us to sign up at: [email protected] and we will share the cost and consent forms to join in the fun!

We hope to see you there!

Young Adult Sign-Up

Young Adults (18-30) who are current or former PEERS students or graduates from Our Village, can sign up for our in-person or virtual hang-outs throughout the year, facilitated by an Our Village staff member. Its a great chance to connect with other young adults, socialize, practice and generalize your PEERS skills, and share your passions and interests with others, in a safe, more unstructured, community-based and natural environment format.

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Our recent PEFA for TEENS event took place in late July for our PEERS TEENS. It was at K1 Speed in Torrance and the Go-Karting event was a FUN success!

Our teens had fun social and rec time in the community with their peers and enjoyed:

12 Lap Qualifying Race
12 Lap Final Race
Medals for the Top 3 Races
Arcade Card while taking their turn racing.
Lunch and Social Conversation hour with Pizzas, Soft Drinks & Treats
TEENS practiced Trading Information, finding common interests and exchanging contact information, if desired.

TEEN Sign-Up

**En español, porfavor lea abajo.

Our Village is grateful and excited to offer a new Social Rec program for TEENS, thanks to a generous grant from the Department of Developmental Services (DDS), facilitated through Harbor Regional Center, for 2023!

This program is available to Our Village PEERS® graduates (or current OV students), and to other PEERS® graduates from our community. TEENS Ages 12.5 - 18 are welcome!

Our PEERS Enrichment Friendship Activities (PEFA for short) will improve accessibility of integrated social and recreational programs that are person-centered by surveying our clients directly of what types of social/rec interests they would like to participate in (for example: community-based in-person outings such as go-karting, movie nights, sports outings, game nights like D&D, art classes, and talking about social/common interests online such as: history/videogames/music/anime), and more!

Groups will be designed based on the teen’s goals and interests in mind.
We will respect and honor their values and choices of what is fun, while creating a safe place to practice, generalize and maintain their social skills, they learned in the structured setting of PEERS.
Our PEERS® staff will be present to help model and reinforce skills in this more unstructured, natural environment.
We will also incorporate volunteers and mentors, including parents and teens when available, and partner with other organizations when appropriate.
We will have both in-person and virtual options available.

Please contact Monica Fyfe to find out more, to participate in our TEEN survey, and to register at: [email protected]

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En español:

PEERS Actividades de enriquecimiento y amistad de PEERS (PEFA)
¡Our Village está agradecido y emocionado de ofrecer un nuevo programa de recreación social para ADOLESCENTES, gracias a una generosa subvención del Departamento de Servicios de Desarrollo (DDS), facilitada a través del Harbor Regional Center, para 2023!

Este programa está disponible para los graduados de Our Village PEERS® (o estudiantes actuales de OV) y para otros graduados de PEERS® de nuestra comunidad. ¡Las edades de 12,5 a 18 años son bienvenidas!

Nuestras actividades de enriquecimiento y amistad PEERS (PEFA, por sus siglas en inglés) mejorarán la accesibilidad a programas sociales y recreativos integrados centrados en la persona al encuestar a nuestros clientes directamente sobre los tipos de intereses sociales/recreativos en los que les gustaría participar (por ejemplo: basados en la comunidad). salidas, noches de juegos como D&D, clases de arte, charlas sobre intereses sociales/comunes como: historia/videojuegos/música/anime), ¡y más!

Los grupos se diseñarán basándose en los objetivos e intereses del adolescente en mente.
Respetaremos y honraremos sus valores y elecciones de lo que es divertido, mientras creamos un lugar seguro para practicar, generalizar y mantener sus habilidades sociales, que aprendieron en el entorno estructurado de PEERS.
Nuestro personal PEERS® estará presente para ayudar a modelar y reforzar habilidades en este entorno natural menos estructurado.
También incorporaremos voluntarios y mentores, incluidos padres y adolescentes cuando estén disponibles, y nos asociaremos con otras organizaciones cuando sea apropiado.

Tendremos opciones tanto presenciales como virtuales disponibles.

Comuníquese con Monica Fyfe para obtener más información y registrarse en: [email protected]