Steve Fleming is a co-founder of Kick4Life, an award-winning sport for development organisation that delivers health education, HIV testing and life skills development to vulnerable children in Lesotho.
Your son might thrive at a school that offers an academic program but also provides structure, life skills development, socialization strategies, help with problem solving and decision-making, and guidance on adjustment to life away from family.
Kyusa's 8 week experiential learning program provides business mentorship and life skills development.
In Long Beach, the city began its P.A.T.H (Promising Adults, Tomorrow's Hope) diversion & training program, which combines occupational training, life skills development, mentoring, and post-secondary education as an alternative to criminal prosecution for young adults ages 16-24.
Throughout both sessions, the girls, ages 13-19, will focus on self development, financial literacy, life skills development, good communication skills, fitness and nutrition, self defense and safe dating, certification in CPR, introduction to non-traditional careers, dance and much more.
Our direct interventions prioritize the awareness raising of boys, strive to teach life skills development and promote the active involvement of adolescent boys in gender equality.
The group component emphasises medical care (ie, interprofessional team-based care), disease-specific education and life skill development.
Community-conversation in line with adolescent-to-adolescent-counseling, peer education and parent-adolescent communication should address sensitive topics such as sex education and life skill development.
UNICEF supports the Youth Policy with activities focusing on life-skills development, economic empowerment, and sexual and reproductive health.
In addition to construction and supply of school furniture and learning materials, UNICEF supports the Ministry of Education and partners in policy and curriculum development; livelihood and life-skills development and teacher training.
- Provision of opportunities to adolescents for life-skills development: Several innovative steps were taken with good results, but a number of problems still existed, e.g. a too restrictive definition of "teen pregnancy" (ignoring pregnancies occurring at 15-19 years of age) and limited attention for the child's right to participate in decision-making.
