Comprehending Consequences Program

Comprehending Consequences is a academic Social Emotional Learning (SEL) program designed to help our students internalize the behaviors that lead to prison. We use evidence-based methods to warn and educate young people of the consequences of where inviting harmful influences into their lives can and will lead them. The curriculum uses KWHL, Bloom’s Taxonomy, vocabulary exercises, and has a Lexile Band of 1030.  The Program discusses important issues such as our education system, the American criminal justice system, peer pressure, decision-making and its consequences.  Our mission is to dismantle the school to prison pipeline by keeping as many of our youth as humanly from ever stepping foot inside a prison cell.  

The Program will motivate students to:

• think critically about the issues discussed
• gain self-awareness
• build self-esteem, be able to achieve anything in life
• predict what the outcome of the reading will be
• express their own feelings
• identify/avoid negative behaviors
• improve decision making
• realize the influence of peer pressure
• accept obstacles as challenges to overcome

Bio

Omar Yamini’s childhood began on the south side of Chicago in 1976. When he was 12 years old in 1988 his parents bought a home and moved their family to, the first suburb south of Chicago. He was raised in a God fearing two parent household with five siblings, three of whom are college graduates. His younger brother serves as a sergeant in the United States Air Force. His other brother, who is 16 months younger in age from him, became a 9 time All-American in track and football, went on to play in the NFL and inducted into the University of Iowa’s Hall of Fame. Mr. Yamini too received his B.A. in Sociology from the University of Illinois Chicago in 2014.

At age 20, after being raised by parents who did their job the right way, Omar invited harmful influences into his life, and as a result he went to prison for 15 years under the “Theory of Accountability”.  The demoralizing experience affected his spirit and soul so deeply it compelled him to write his book; “What’s Wrong With You!” (What You, Your Children, and Our Students Need To Know About My 15 Year Imprisonment From Age 20-35) in 2012. He wrote it so that our young people truly understand the mental and emotional devastation of prison and what will happen to any of us if we lose our dignity and decency and invite harmful influences into our lives.  His book and program are being utilized by schools nationwide.  With the support of his family, Omar founded “The Proper Perception, LLC” in the fall of 2012.

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