Program Overview Overview Keys to Excellence, Inc. has integrated into one curriculum, Keys to Innervisions, the most current thinking, information, and research in the field of cognitive restructuring, self-concept principles, character education, and goal-achievement processes. The result is the most powerful change program available in the field of education, alternative education, juvenile and adult corrections and other programs for high-risk students. Since 1980 Keys to Excellence, Inc. has implemented curricula in public schools. The design of Keys to Innervisions is founded on years of research and development. It is an effective intervention for dropout prevention, violence prevention and reduction, enhancing academic performance, substance abuse prevention and intervention. Keys to Innervisions is designed for all students but especially for at-risk adolescents and adults. It effectively communicates to diverse cultural populations having been successfully used in Native Alaskan and Native American schools and with urban Black and Hispanic students. Facilitators are trained in multi-sensory and interactive learning styles to ensure that those who have failed in traditional learning situations are engaged in KIV. It provides processes and skills for evaluation and self-directed changes in values and behaviors. The design of the Keys to Innervisions curriculum materials enables agencies and school districts to make one cost-effective purchase to provide multiple services. Delivery to identified students. Empowerment Team Training: Delivery to the staff, teachers, family members, and other adults who work and interact with the students. Empowerment Milieu: Continuity of intervention tools and language, which provides students with consistent practice, and application of KIV concepts to daily life situations and problems. Possibility Parenting: Using the parenting component of Keys to Innervisions as a powerful intervention and prevention tool to add parents and siblings to the circle of continuity and support for students. A dynamic staff development curriculum: It helps staff develop a common vision of mission and the tools to accomplish it. KIV promotes communication, cooperation, and teamwork and decreases stress and burnout. Keys to Innervisions has been researched and cited as a model curriculum. In 2001, The New Jersey Safe and Drug-Free Schools, Violence Prevention Institute evaluated and cited KIV as a model program. Keys To Innervisions has been recommended by two federal courts as a model curriculum which enables state facilities to meet federal guidelines for treatment. In 1993, Keys to Innervisions was presented as a program that works to reduce violence at a conference sponsored by the Federal Departments of Education and Justice, "Safeguarding Our Youth: Violence Prevention For Our Nation's Children."