Life Skills

Two women sit at table, counting coins together.

Two women sit at table, counting coins together.

Life Skills training is woven throughout all of our programs, including training in areas such as:

  • Cleaning and Hygiene: House cleaning, personal grooming skills, laundry skills.

  • Food preparation: Training in healthy meal planning, grocery shopping, safe food handling, meal preparation, and entertaining at home.

  • Safety Education: How to rely on internal “warning bells” to recognize unsafe situations and to prevent victimization in the community. Includes safety in the home, earthquake preparedness and fire prevention.

  • Healthy Relationships: focuses on the responsibilities and "mechanics" of developing friendships, dating, relationships, and issues regarding sexuality, and sexual abuse/STD prevention. Includes self-advocacy skills, conflict resolution skills, and problem solving.

  • Money management and budgeting