Life Skills Curriculum Industry News

Cochise Community Foundation Announces 10 Grants totaling $11,191
Daily Dispatch - Colors of Success received $450 for Girls with a Voice II, a 12-week life skills program designed for young women with multiple risk factors. Women's Transition Project received $1,000 to provide space for a wellness program to promote physical and

First-Year Experience
Colgate University - Life Skills Program Tracks (fall) These courses allow first-year students to explore an area of interest while fulfilling one physical education requirement. Topics include: diversity and social justice, living a meaningful life, career

First Tee in need of volunteers
Port Arthur News - The local program has seen participation in its unique golf and life skills program double in its first two years and is on course to double again by early 2008. Programming enhancements for 2007 feature an expanded number of sessions in which young

Nipawin s Emery Lebel focus of CBC news feature
Nipawin Journal - In the fall of 2005 Emery took a one year Living Skills and Life Skills program at Middle & Secondary School where he honed a variety of skills. He also has one sister, Allicia, a Grade 12 student and one married brother, Perry, who resides in Zenon

Fast friendships and a clubhouse of sorts.
journalnews.com - Her 20-year-old son, Brian, is still at Bronxville High School, in its Life Skills Program, but will be graduating this year. New York state's Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities is offering grants to tailor activities to

Special-needs wrestler excels with team
Coloradoan - Bogdanski is one of 14 Fossil Ridge students in the school's Adaptive Skills/Life Skills Program, which will allow him to remain a Fossil Ridge student until he turns 21. Steve Mishkind, a teacher in the program, said he noticed Bogdanski became a lot