Youth Skills for LIFE is the recommended independent living skills curriculum by Project LIFE to use with young people who are in need of learning, enhancing, or supporting life skills to effectively transition into adulthood and self-sufficiency.

Through Youth Skills for LIFE, it is our intent to provide you with an easy-to-use curriculum that will support the development and focus for young people moving into adulthood. We want to assist youth and adult supporters in building a learning agenda that will speak to the knowledge, skills, and abilities young people need to successfully move on their own and interdependently during their adult experience. Thus, empowerment, engagement, and motivation become underlining themes for youth to activate in order to achieve life skills.

Youth Skills for LIFE is referenced from the Ansell Casey Life Skills Assessment (ACLSA) Domains and the Circle of Courage©. The ACLSA is an evaluative tool used with foster youth to benchmark their skill level and readiness for living on their own and interdependently as adults. Through this competency-based assessment, nine domains (skills) are addressed. Within each domain there are identified goals, expectations and activities listed to support the achievement of the life skills.

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