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928: Teaching Life Skills to Foster Youth
928: Teaching Life Skills to Foster YouthThe Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center
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Learning Objectives• Identify the assessment needs of foster youth; • Recognize and interpret the learning levels of foster
youth;• Develop plans for teaching life skills to foster youth
based on their identified learning levels; and• Identify and explain practical resources you can use
to teach “hard” and “soft” life skills.
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928: Teaching Life Skills to Foster YouthThe Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center
Learning Life Skills • How did you learn life skills growing up? • What did you learn? • Who taught you? • How did they teach you? • When did you know you had learned them?• Is this how you teach your foster children life skills?
– Why or why not?
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What does the research say?
“The evaluation calls into question the notion that classroom-based life skills
training, in and of itself, is likely to have much impact on the well-being of foster
youth in transition to adulthood.” • Administration of Children and Families, 2008
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Teaching Life Skills
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Assessment
Results
The Conversatio
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Learning Plan
Instruction
Application
Monitoring
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Casey Life Skills Assessment: A Free Tool
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928: Teaching Life Skills to Foster YouthThe Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center
“Hard” Skills vs. “Soft” Skills
• Hard Skills – Task-based and completed sequentially – E.g. banking, budgeting, doing laundry,
cleaning, changing a light bulb • Soft Skills
– Based on personal and social strengths – E.g. positive communication, networking,
conversations with adults, positive conflict resolution
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Understanding Individual Learning Styles
• Auditory • Visual• Kinesthetic/Tactile
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Learning Levels
Awareness
Knowledge and Understanding
Knows how to…
Can or is able to…
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Knows How To…
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928: Teaching Life Skills to Foster YouthThe Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center
Can or is able to…
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928: Teaching Life Skills to Foster YouthThe Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center
Teaching Life Skills
• Answer the following questions based on your scenario: – What learning
level is this youth on? Why?
– What is this youth’s dominant learning style? Why?
– Develop a plan to teach this youth the life skill discussed in the scenario
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Life Skills Resources: Instruction and Application
• “Ready, Set, Fly! A Parent’s Guide to Teaching Life Skills” – www.caseylifeskills.org
• Life Skills lesson plans for youth with disabilities - http://www.nsttac.org/
• PA Youth in Transition Network - https://sites.google.com/site/payouthintransitionnetwork/
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