Table 2.

Content of the PARTNERS Program Youth Component

Session Number	Title	Content
Session 1	Introduction to the Program, Violence Prevention, and Leadership Framework	How does violence affect your community? What does it mean to be a leader within your community? How will this program help you to become a better problem-solver and leader?
Session 2	Leadership and Problem Solving	What is the difference between a good and bad leader? Discussion and planning for the leadership promotion project to be conducted during Sessions 9–10. How can we become leaders to prevent conflicts and violence?
Session 3	What Does Anger and Aggression Mean to You?	Why do youth get angry—what are the “triggers”? What are different ways in which youth express their aggression? Where are the conflict hotspots—where do conflicts tend to occur in the community?
Session 4	Recognizing Our Feelings	How do we identify feelings? How are feelings different from behavior? Recognizing that everyone has feelings, but how we act on our feelings is crucial.
Session 5	Finding Ways to Stay Calm in Difficult Situations	Recognizing when we are becoming angry. Learning cool-down strategies to stay calm in tough social situations. Benefits and challenges of using cool-down/calming strategies.
Session 6	Mindreading/Why Did This Happen?	Why is it important to figure out others’ intentions? Using face and body clues to determine intentionality. Advantages to giving others the benefit of the doubt.
Session 7	Choices	Recognizing that being a leader means that we consider all of our choices/options. Brainstorming one’s choices and evaluating the consequences of our choices. Learning different categories of choices.
Session 8	Perspective Taking	Why it is important to see another person’s perspective? Discussing that a leader is able to see different people’s perspectives. Learning questions that can be used to figure out someone else’s perspective.
Session 9	Time to Lead: Leadership Activity	Identify an issue to bring to the community’s attention. Brainstorm ideas for completing the leadership activity.
Session 10	Time to Lead: Leadership Activity (Part 2)	Continue to work on the development and implementation of leadership activity. Youth discuss personal impact of this activity and the program.