Program Overview
The LifeSkills 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 LifeSkills 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 LifeSkills Training Middle School program
Program Components
- Comprehensive, easy-to-use teacher’s manual
- Student guide
- Companion website
Companion website
- Provides students with activities that reinforce lessons and links to health-related information
- Teachers recieve instructions for web-based activities and a resource section with information to support classroom lessons
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