The Life Skills Mentoring Program uses a combination of interactive coaching activities to address the readiness of high school level young adults for employment. The lessons will be taught weekly in 45-minute classes.
Program Objectives
1. Personal Self-Management Skills Developing skills that enhance self-esteem, help with problem-solving, reduce stress and anxiety, and help manage anger. 2. General Social Skills Students gain skills to meet personal challenges such as overcoming shyness, communicating clearly, building relationships and avoiding violence. 3. Drug Resistance Skills Students build effective defenses against pressures to use tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs. |
Program Goals
1. The Value of Human Health Introduce the program and how it is relevant to students’ health. 2. Decision-making for Health To teach how to make decisions that benefit personal health practices. 3. Risk-Taking and Substance Abuse To counter myths and misconceptions about drugs, their rate of usage, and effects; to increase awareness of effects of drug use on physical, mental, and emotional health. 4. The Media and Health To increase awareness of how the media influences our health behavior; to increase resistance to media manipulation and influence. 5. Managing Stress, Anger, and other Emotions To teach recognition of stress and anger triggers and how they relate to behavior; how substance use is related to stress; techniques for managing stress and anger. 6. Healthy Relationships To increase awareness of what students are attracted to in others and what attracts others to them; skills for effective social interaction; resolving conflicts in close personal relationships 7. Family Communications To increase awareness of changing roles in the family; to teach how to communicate effectively with family members |
F.R.E.S.H. COUNSELING SOLUTIONS. Buffalo, NY.
Email Address: [email protected]. Main Phone: 716.241.1140
Email Address: [email protected]. Main Phone: 716.241.1140