Life Skills Training
To grow into well-functioning adults, it is critical that youth learn key life skills. Life skills include critical and creative thinking, decision-making, effective communication, as well as skills for developing healthy relationships and a positive self-concepts. Life skills help people make responsible and informed choices and can promote healthy lifestyles as well as career skills.
Lifetree Kids advocates that life skills be defined as abilities for adaptive and positive behavior, that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life and that every school should enable children and adolescents at all levels to learn critical health and life skills.
Unfortunately, however, many children do not have access to education that provides such life skills training. Lifetree Kids works with partners—including Churches, Schools, and NGOs, to develop life skills curricula and training approaches—to assist programs to more effectively integrate and teach life skills to students in both formal schools and informal settings.
We aim to do this by developing a teacher training curricula with a three-tiered classification of life skills including general life skills, pre-vocational skills, and career skills.
