The Life Skills
Learning Academy
Promoting Individual Independence As Well As Interpersonal Skills.
About Our Approach
Our novel approach utilizes our Life Skills Therapy House—a four bedroom, 1800 square foot home that gives numerous opportunities for participants to work on skills that, once mastered, can generalize to their own living environment.
Academies revolve around four essential domains: Practical Living, Character Development, Consumer Relations, and Health and Wellness.
These four components comprise the framework for successful and independent life skills participants, and all daily classroom activities are geared toward these domains.
The Junior Life Skills
Learning Academy
Our Junior Life Skills Learning Academy promotes basic acquisition of skills that learners need for success at home, in school, and in their community at large. Participants ages 8-12 engage in activities that promote individual independence as well as interpersonal skills.
Specific activities include: basic money skills; exercise and diet; turn taking; winning and losing; appropriate peer interactions; and a beginner repertoire of vacuuming, cooking, and cleaning.
The Senior Life Skills
Learning Academy
Topics & Activities
Topics and activities include: choices about bullying; saving money and spending wisely; cooking full meals; developing friends; talking to the opposite sex; confidence and shyness; yoga, stretching, running, and various sports activities; healthy and unhealthy foods; and an advanced repertoire of maintaining different areas in the home.
Participants share their experiences–both positive and negative–to foster a caring, trusting and safe environment where meaningful learning can occur.
Participants ages 13-19 work on skills that truly demonstrate their individuality and address problems and questions that are important to them.
