YMCA Life Skills

I.S.61 has partnered with the YMCA Counseling Service.  They will provide a special program called "Life Skills" which is a dynamic and developmentally appropriate substance abuse program and violence prevention program for middle school students. The program is delivered in a 15 session curriculum that has been shown to help improve self-esteem, develop healthy attitudes and improve their knowledge of essential life skills.  

Students who participate in Life Skills will learn about the following:

• self Image and self Improvement

• making decisions

• smoking myths and realities

•  smoking and biofeedback

•  communication skills

• alcohol myths and realities

• coping with anxiety

• coping with anger

• marijuana myths and realities

• advertising

• violence and the media

• social skills

•  assertiveness

• conflict resolution

   

   

   

   

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