The WhyTry Program has been proven to help individuals:
Improve emotional functioning and positive social behavior
Decrease fighting and aggressive behaviors
Increase resilience
Engage in fewer rule-breaking behaviors
Show more internal control
Increase their ability to sustain action towards goals
At WhyTry, we believe strongly in the philosophy that people are not motivated by programs, they are motivated by people. As an officer or other correctional staff member that works directly with offenders, you have the opportunity to change lives, build motivation, and make a real difference in the world.
The WhyTry Program equips you with the tools and language to help you do this more effectively, providing you with a strength-based approach that will improve communication, create a safer environment, and help your clients break destructive cycles in their lives.
“EVERY PERSON, man, women and child should be REQUIRED to go through your program in order to go through life… If we can do this program everywhere, in every school, we would be spending much less money and resources on prisons, youth detention and alternative schools. The teachers need it as much as the youth.” -Jill Porter, Probation Officer, New York
“They started participating more, they started opening up on different issues that they were dealing with, versus when we first brought the program in, some of them wouldn’t even talk. That’s when we knew something positive was happening...” –Joe Cunningham, Program Coordinator, Communities in Schools, Texas
“All juvenile probation officers should be introduced to this program.” -Michael Pemberton, Probation Officer, Nebraska State Probation
“We have been using the WhyTry Program here for years as part of our Peer Leader program, and we always get a positive response.” -Scott Boydston, San Diego
