Life Skills Training

Youth and families can reach full potential through a positive approach to life skills development. CARE consultants helps by delivering the necessary information and skill practices.

Through specific learning objectives, participants will develop their life skills. Achievement is measured by completing lesson plans that based on experiential learning theory …  the process of learning through experience, more specifically defined as “learning through reflection on doing.”

life skills training is a process of mental, physical, social and emotional growth. CARE prepares and empowers youth and families to live a productive and satisfying life within the customs and regulations of their society. The goal of CARE is to provide developmentally appropriate opportunities for youth and families to through life skills training — to practice until they are learned, and to reach full potential by using those skills in a positive way.

Life Skills Training Outline
  • Interpersonal communication skills
  • Verbal & nonverbal communication
  • Active listening
  • Expressing feelings
  • Giving and receiving feedback (without blaming)
Negotiation/refusal skills
  • Negotiation and conflict management
  • Assertiveness skills
  • Refusal skills
Empathy
  • Ability to listen and understand another’s needs and circumstances
  • Expressing that understanding
Cooperation and Teamwork
  • Expressing respect for others’ contributions and different styles
  • Assessing one’s own abilities and contributing to the group
Advocacy Skills
  • Influencing skills & persuasion
  • Networking and motivation skills
Decision making / problem solving skills
  • Information gathering skills
  • Evaluating future consequences of present actions for self and others
  • Determining alternative solutions to problems
  • Analysis skills regarding the influence of values and attitudes of self and others on motivation
Critical thinking skills
  • Analyzing peer and media influences
  • Analyzing attitudes, values, social norms and beliefs and factors affecting these
  • Identifying relevant information and information sources

MORE REENTRY SERVICES

  • Returning Citizens Reentry Services

    CARE assists returning citizens in transitioning from incarceration back into the community. Reentry begins at sentencing and continues pre-post release, with a focus on the continuity of care from prison to the community. It often involves a variety of agencies and groups that coordinate efforts to ensure that returning citizens receive needed services, opportunities, support and resources.

  • Case Management / Referral Services

  • Personal Responsibility Training

    Create and manage change … Performance coaching for individuals and organizations help overcome barriers and develop life skills that will improve behaviors, anger management and outlook towards community, diversity and being human.

  • MRT – Moral Reconation Therapy

    MRT is a systematic treatment strategy that seeks to decrease recidivism among juvenile and adult criminal offenders by increasing moral reasoning.

  • Life Skills Training

    Reach full potential through a positive approach by creating realistic goals, developing social and coping skills, realizing self-image, exercising self-improvement, and making the right decisions.