Life Skills

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. Shopping lists and recipes are laminated for each participant.
• Safety Education:  How to rely on internal “warning bells” to recognize unsafe situations and to prevent victimization. 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