#0521 The Road to Independent Living: Life Skills for the Young Adult

Replacing AFCR's individual volume series, Life Skills for the Young Adult provides a fifteen chapter, loose-leaf curriculum for developing independent living life skills for youth in transition. Each chapter addresses a specific topic area that may present a challenge to teenagers as they prepare to move out on their own. The fifteen chapters are:

Identifying and Planning Goals
Daily Living Skills
Career Development
Searching for A Job
Maintaining, Employment
Building Relationships With Family
Food and Nutrition
Educational & Training Opportunities
Finding Your First Apartment
Furnishing & Maintaining Your Apartment
Self-Eteem
Developing Positive Relatioships
Understanding &Coping with Feelings
Developing Problem Solving Skills
Recreation and Leisure Time

The Appendix includes a self-assessment inventory. The format for each of the chapters is self instructional, allowing the reader to put ideas and skills into immediate practice and allowing the youth to utilize each chapter as a topical reference; the loose-leaf format allows the trainer/user to insert additional materials and references to reinforce and expand the content. Foster and adoptive parents and social workers can use the curriculum as a tool for helping youth gain skills in either a group or individual learning setting. The curriculum offers an excellent instructional tool for an in-service training program to assist foster parents in working more effectively with their teens. This curriculum allows agency staff working with youth to individualize a training program for each youth by focusing only those topical chapters that meet the needs of each particular youth. Each chapter includes basic topical information, exercises for planning and utilizing concepts, "where to go/write to" for additional resource information, and, fill-in-the-blanks data information that provides each youth with a comprehensive, personalized "data bank" that can be maintained and referred to as the young adult meets the needs of self-sufficiency.

#0521 Life Skills for the Young Adult $25.00 Ea., 10+ $19.00 Ea.