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Program Overview
The Life Skills Training High School program is a highly
interactive, skills-based program designed to promote positive health and
personal development for high school youth. This program helps adolescents
navigate the challenges of the high school years, and prepares them for the
independence and responsibilities that they will encounter as young adults.
The program helps students achieve competency in the skills that have been
found to reduce and prevent substance use and violence.
Program Learning ObjectiveS
The Life Skills Training High School program uses a
developmentally appropriate integrated approach designed to strengthen
student abilities in the following areas:
- Personal Self-Management
Skills
Provides students with strategies for decision-making,
managing stress, and anger.
- General
Social Skills
Enables
students to strengthen their communication skills and build healthy
relationships.
- Drug Resistance Skills
Empowers students to understand the consequences of substance use and
risk-taking and the influences of the media.
Program Structure
- Grades
9 or 10
- Consists
of 10 class sessions
- Approximately
40-45 minutes each session
- Taught
either as an intensive mini-series or on a more extended schedule
- Can
be used alone or in combination as maintenance to the Life Skills Training Middle
School program
Program Components
- Comprehensive,
easy-to-use teacherŐs manual
- Student
guide
- Companion
website
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