Success Stories

Super Project Lab began offering educational programs in June of 2009. Our partnerships with local schools and social programs created an opportunity to bring communication and team-building skills to people involved with Boys and Girls Clubs, Girls Scouts Beyond Bars, Boys and Girls Aid Pettygrove Residential Program, and Beaumont SUN Community School.

Beaumont SUN Community School workshop

Girl Scouts Beyond Bars is a Girl Scout troop composed of girls from Portland and outlying areas whose mothers are incarcerated. The girls have troop meetings with their mothers two Saturdays each month at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. To facilitate communication and interaction, Super Project Lab designed a two-hour workshop for the mother-daughter teams. The different needs of the girls ages 5-to-15 years old were met by having positive experiences with their mothers.

Quotes from the mothers:

“You did a great job and we like it all!”

“[What we liked…] being together, learning a new game, being silly and using our imaginations”

“I thought all the games were fun but I especially like the “whoosh” it got everyone involved and laughing.”

“We laughed a lot and that’s perfect for this type of situation.”

Quotes from the daughters:

“I liked everything. PS it was perfect”

“I liked to say one word and everything”

“I think we need to go faster on the whoosh zap and groovalicious!”

“The story it was fun and the whoosh it got all of us happy”

Beaumont SUN Community School workshop

Pettygrove Residential Program is a a nine-month program serving young women, 14 to 18 years of age, who are in Oregon Youth Authority custody. Super Project Lab’s ongoing work with the young women continues to be an unexpectedly wonderful journey. Over the course of the first seven weeks, the girls became aware of the defensive posture and protective barriers they have built up around themselves (what one social worker refers to as their “survival suit”). Through the skill-building classes that ask each participant to affirm what happens and to respond creatively, the girls learned to trust themselves and our staff.

Quotes from the girls of Pettygrove Residential Program:

“Shelley is the best ever to teach here, the games, the way she teaches the skill sets to us”

“[I liked] the games and applying some skills with the games.”

“[I liked] games, activeness and cornyness”

“good attitude and respectful staff”

Quotes from the staff of Pettygrove Residential Program:

“The improv group is a great way to present our program’s information and behavioral skill sets in a creative way.  It gives the girls a new perspective on actually using the tools and skills they’ve read about in their packets; and it adds a lot of fun to learning and working together cooperatively.”
-Theresa Merrion, Residential Care Counselor, Boy and Girls Aid

We are looking forward to many more successful partnerships in 2010.  Please stay tuned for more detailed stories and positive results to come.

"The improv group is a great way to present our program's information and
> behavioral skill sets in a creative way.  It gives the girls a new
> perspective on actually using the tools and skills they've read about in
> their packets; and it adds a lot of fun to learning and working together
> cooperatively."
> -Theresa Merrion, Residential Care Counselor, Boy and Girls Aid