Skills for Life
Student Skills for Life is a group educational experience which serves as:
- intervention for youth experimenting with alcohol or other drugs;
- prevention for any adolescent or college-age population.
The program provides experiential life skills training, and may include drug & alcohol assessments and parenting classes when appropriate.
Problem Areas Addressed:
- substance abuse
- poor decision-making
- lack of communication skills
Skills Built:
- stopped or reduced substance use
- effective communication
- assertiveness
- decision-making
- expressing and dealing with feelings
Age/Grade Level: Grades 9-12 plus college
Setting: Small-group lessons during the school day or after school
Format: Prevention: A series of twelve 30-45 minute sessions; Intervention: 12 hours of evening classes
Effectiveness: Documented evidence of:
- fewer arrests due to underage drinking and driving under the influence
- stopped or reduced substance use
- increased knowledge of substance use, abuse and addiction
- improved decision-making skills
See the Spring 2010 edition of this program's newsletter, the Juvenile Justice Journal.
For more information on this program please contact Bill Pare at (717) 299-2831 ext. 228.
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