Happy House Successes

Happy House Welcomes Delphi Academy!

September 13, 2023

Delphi Academy has started a Good Choices Club in the Lower School (grades 1 through 5) have been working hard in making Good Choices. Students were asked to give examples of when they have been applying the Good Choices lessons in their own life.

Responses to I have been following Good Choices and I feel Happier:

“I say please and thank you at all times. I listen and do all of my chores, I help my mom more often and nicer to my siblings” –M.G., 3rd grade

“Try to understand people more, I am taking better care of myself.” –O.M, 3rd grade

In response to How I set a Good Example:

“Shared my Lego with my sister. I stopped my baby sister from jumping on the bed. I feed my dogs to help out.” –I.D., 1st grade

Meet the Junior Cadets!

August 12, 2023

Meet some of our newest group of Junior Cadets at the LAPD Mission Station. Big smiles and excitement from everyone as they get started on their Happy House Good Choices journey.

Results from Happy House Tutoring 2023

July 1, 2023

Recently, Happy House tutored a group of students who were convinced that tutoring would be a waste of time. They had failed. They were stupid. End of story. Well…not quite.

The tutoring results tell a different story, and the kids are now smiling and eager to learn. The parents are happy too!

“My son was struggling with Math but since the tutoring he’s happy and has passed his year-end test with the highest score ever for him.” 

“I re-classified, which means I’m no longer in the special-needs class.”

And here are two young adults who benefited from Happy House tutoring!

“WOW!” ” IT DOES WHAT?”

June 30, 2023

The kids had a blast learning what happens when you mix different things together – it’s called Chemistry!

“I never knew how much fun Chemistry is! I just thought it was a big fancy word.” –KA 

“No way this is Chemistry, It’s cool!” –LS

Bringing in the Arts!

June 29, 2023

Many of our students aren’t normally able to enjoy the pleasure of creating art, so we brought in some projects to help them CREATE! Notice the intense look on many of their faces while painting and the proud look at the end of their project. It brings JOY to the heart! Great job all!

“This was really FUN! We don’t get to do art at school.” –KA

“I am so happy that we could have art today and want to say thank you because I was able to make my dad a present for Father’s Day!!” –MV

Good Choices Success from John Glenn High School!

June 3, 2023

Happy House congratulates sixty-two extraordinary students from John Glenn High School who are now making Good Choices in their lives. The Good Choices program is 21 real-world precepts to help people succeed in life, including setting a good example, not taking harmful drugs, treating others as you want to be treated, being worthy of trust, and many more. 

“Thank you, Nancy and Miss Carol! Coming back from distanced learning, The Good Choices Program has really helped teach the students to be courteous with each other and to act properly within a group. Hygiene has also been a big issue – washing hands, brushing teeth, and this was also gently and effectively addressed. These are just a couple of the many wonderful outcomes from the Good Choices seminars. I could not be more pleased.” – Ms. Soto, John Glenn High School

Another Good Choice in Action!

May 31, 2023

These students learned the value of keeping their environment clean, and they took it to heart!

“I learned that I can help my planet look better by just picking up trash around my house.” –J.A.

“Now I know more about why you need to recycle but also we can reuse stuff, it was fun!” –O.V.

Good Choices Graduate Receives Scholarship from LAPD!

May 5, 2023

This young lady was a graduate of the “good choices” program at age 9! She is now a young adult and just received a scholarship from the LAPD. She and her parents credit the Happy House Good Choices program played an important role in her success. Well done and congratulations, Ms. Contreras!

Good Choices Graduate Receives Scholarship from LAPD

“I was in the Jr Cadet Program at LAPD Foothill Station participating in the Good Choices program since the age of 9 years old. From this program I learned in many ways to understand good to bad. I learned respect, responsibility, and communication. The knowledge that I obtained led me to where I am now.

Getting help from Ms. Carol helped me a lot; she tutored me and improved my reading and math skills. I’ll always remember the lesson of the “Swiss cheese.” I am now 18 years old, graduating high school with good grades and going to college. I’m thankful to this program because it changed and improved me and showed me that whatever I set my mind to, I can achieve — because I have.

I have been a trainer to several Jr Cadet classes, passing my learning to younger kids in this program. I am an example, since I was once in their shoes, and I show them how this program will lead them to much more.”

–YC

More Successes!

“When I learned how to make good choices, I started to be better like happiness, taking care of myself. My life has become better when I did this, my grades got better and I’m happier than before.”

–L.V.

“Getting tutoring from the Happy House tutor has helped me improve my multiplications, divisions, and fractions! But especially how to tell time… Now when I want to check the time I can look at the clock and FINALLY read it!!!”

–K.A.

“Doing Good Choices has helped me look at things differently. I think that I have gotten better at seeing that some situations have more than one solution. For example if you see someone getting bullied or picked on instead of staying quiet you can ask the person why they are picking on the other person.I also know how to be a little more patient with people and treat other people that way you want to be treated because how would you like it if someone treated you badly or said something rude? Last few things I learned was how to take care of myself better like being drug free, eating better and brushing my teeth! I learned a LOT with this program because now I can stop and THINK about what could happen if I make a bad choice!”

–G.A.