Mission of Life Skills Plus

The mission of Life Skills Plus is to supply our youth with coping skills to deal with anger, stress, self-esteem, and to supply skills to communicate more effectively in order to increase their quality of living and to better prepare them for adulthood.

When you enroll in a Life Skills Plus program, you will become empowered in all of your relationships by learning:

  • Effective communication, problem solving and listening skills
  • Skills to promote expression of feelings, thoughts and needs comfortably and with confidence
  • Decision making skills, conflict resolution, and anger management skills
  • Cognitive restructuring and specific tools to build self-esteem
  • Stress management skills
  • Skills to increase socialization
  • Compromising and negotiating skills
  • Team building skills

Life Skills Plus Programs

Life Skills Plus has many affordable programs designed to reach our community youth. These programs are extremely effective and success is measured through the use of pre-test/post-test. Participants use role playing and interactive activities throughout the programs to ensure learned skills. Programs are limited to fifteen youth per session. Life Skills Plus can customize programs. Click the name of the program in the left navigation bar to find out more about a program's curriculum.

Eager Beavers
An introductory life skills program specifically designed for elementary age youth. This program contains nine consecutive sessions from 42 minutes to an hour. The program consists of the following skills: exploring and enhancing emotions, enhancing self-esteem, assertiveness training, constructive confrontation, anger management, conflict resolution, listening to understand, and stress management skills.

Social Climbers
An introductory life skills program specifically designed for middle school youth. This program consists of the same skills as above but is presented in age appropriate form.

Unlimited Stars
A life skills program designed to reach high school students. This program contains seven consecutive sessions from 42 minutes to an hour. The program consists of the following skills: effective communication, constructive confrontation, anger management and conflict resolution, stress management through the use of cognitive restructuring, and active listening skills.

Follow UP Program
This program is designed for youth who have participated in the Life Skills Plus Introductory program. This program consists of three sessions (45 minutes to 1 hour).
No Sweat! Test Prep! “It’s a state of mind”
This program is designed to decrease stress when test taking through knowledge and practice of specific skills. These skills include: cognitive restructuring, time management skills, organizational skills, ability to write measurable goals and relaxation techniques. The program consists of three 45 minutes to 1 hour classes. These classes will meet once a week for three weeks. Each program is limited to 10 participants.
Parenting Program
This program is strongly encouraged for the parents of the participating students. This program was created in order for parents to help reinforce youth learned skills and to offer parents additional skills to help in their relationships with their youth, as well as, others. This program is four hours and consists of: effective communication, constructive confrontation,
Tracking positives, anger management, stress management and listening to understand. Each class is limited to fifteen adults with one trainer.
Effective Boundary setting can be included with an additional hour.
Staff Training in Conjunction with our Youth Programs
This program was designed to give staff additional tools to help with classroom management and for reinforcement by the staff to the youth who are participating in the life skills program. The program focuses on effective communication, constructive confrontation, conflict resolution, cognitive restructuring, and active listening skills. Each class is limited to 15 staff and is approximately four hours in length. Effective Boundary Setting can be included with an additional hour.
Staff Training
Life Skills Plus has many different staff training sessions to choose from. These skills will be of assistance with any type of relationships (work, personal, professional, etc.)

Train the Trainer
Life Skills Plus offers Train the Trainer program. We will come to your site and train your people to facilitate our programs with full use of curriculum and certification.

Customer Service Training
 Life Skills Plus offers training that insures key people in companies have "the big three:" excellent communications skills, conflict resolution skills and listening skills.

Updated January 12, 2006            We have had visitors since March 8, 2004.