"If your child is over-stressed or under-involved --if you're concerned about a culture flying off its tracks with meanness -- if you're wondering whether healthy passion is being replaced by non-stop pop culture--if you want your kids to have creative and inspiring fun -- then AHA! is truly a gift for our times. AHA!'s mission to strengthen your child's character for life and have a great time doing it, is exactly what both parents and teens are searching for."

- Ron Taffel

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Mission Statement

AHA! is dedicated to the development of character, imagination, emotional intelligence, and social conscience in teenagers. Through an innovative curriculum focusing on self-expression, team-building, empathy training, emotional intelligence, and diversity appreciation, AHA! helps teens learn to set goals, stop bullying and hatred, support their peers, and serve their community.

The curriculum is delivered through a multicultural lens that honors and celebrates our commonalities and differences. Facilitators participate with the teens in lessons and exercises that enhance both group trust and cross-generational alliances.

AHA! has expanded to serve youth in Los Angeles, Goleta, Carpinteria, and Santa Barbara. Please go to classes and events

The Academy of Healing Arts for Teens (AHA!) is a project of The Family Therapy Institute of Santa Barbara (FTI).

The Family Therapy Institute is a non-profit organization founded in 1980 to serve individuals, couples, children, and families in our community; to train professionals in the use of effective therapies; and to educate the public about issues relevant to the family's improved health and well-being.

 
 
AHA! is dedicated to the development of character, imagination, emotional intelligence, and social conscience in teenagers.
 
I want to say thank you so much for providing a scholarship for me. Thanks to your help I can take a full load of classes from SBCC! My parents did not have enough but you guys made it happen.
In all honesty AHA! has changed my life in a positive way. I feel I have this support from you guys that I never had from my family. You guys and AHA! have saved me and helped me so much. And being part of AHA! is like an extended family for me. To repay you I plan to be the most successful person that I can be. I will work hard in school and I will make the best choices I can. Thank you Jennifer and Rendy and AHA! for all your support.

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