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Skills for Taking Control of Your Future |
Connecting Families curriculum is designed to provide couples and individuals with an in-depth understanding of the key factors that influence a relationship's success. The curriculum engages participants in understanding the interdependent nature of relationships and in enhancing the skills that support successful relationship interaction. The program consists of four workshops most typically delivered in two-hour sessions. The sessions are interactive, involving discussion and hands-on activities. The curriculum includes teaching plans, handouts, activities instructions, teaching tools, evaluation strategies, and a research background section. Accompanying the curriculums is a CD with PowerPoint slides that can be used to assist in the teaching of each session.
Skills for Taking Control of Your Future is a 475-page curriculum designed to help low-income people successfully make the transition to self-sufficiency. The curriculum engages participants in the learning process through hands-on activities that are featured in the six teaching units covering the following topics: Taking Control of Your Life, Taking Control of Your Money, Taking Control of Your Parenting, Taking Control of Your Family Life, Taking Control of Your Food and Taking Control of Your Living Space. Each unit contains three sessions for a total of 18, which include a teaching plan, overheads, handouts and teaching tools. Evaluation strategies are included. The curriculum is available upon request by contacting Dr. Marilyn Corbin, Associate Director and State Program Leader for Children, Youth and Families at (814) 863-6109 or mcorbin@psu.edu.
Destrezas para Tomar Control de su Futuro is the Hispanic version of the Skills for Taking Control of Your Future curriculum. The 475-page curriculum has the overheads and handouts translated into Spanish. The curriculum is available upon request by contacting Dr. Marilyn Corbin, Associate Director and State Program Leader for Children, Youth and Families at (814) 863-6109 or mcorbin@psu.edu.
Mentoring for Success is a three-session curriculum that prepares mentors to assist low-income persons to successfully maintain work and strengthen developing personal skills. The curriculum’s sessions focus on helping the participants in defining What Is a Mentoring Relationship through the use of the six behavioral functions of mentoring: Relationship Focus, Informative Focus, Facilitative Focus, Confrontive Focus, Mentor Model and Mentee Vision. The curriculum also teaches the Skills for Mentoring Communication and Practicing the Art of Mentoring through application activities. Evaluation strategies are included. Each session has a teaching plan, overheads, handouts and teaching tools. Evaluation strategies are included in the curriculum. The curriculum is available upon request by contacting Dr. Marilyn Corbin, Associate Director and State Program Leader for Children, Youth and Families at (814) 863-6109 or mcorbin@psu.edu.
My Key to Success is a self-belief and employment readiness curriculum designed to prepare individuals to obtain a job and remain employed. The curriculum engages participants in activities featured in eight learning sessions: My Personal Strengths, Life is What You Make It, My Appearance Sells Me, How to Communicate to Get a Job, Key to Working: Be a Team Player, The Employers’ Viewpoint, Personal Barriers to Work Success and Putting It All Together. Each session has a teaching plan, overheads, handouts and teaching tools. Evaluation strategies are included in the curriculum. The curriculum is available upon request from the Publication Distribution Center at (877) 345-0691.
Bouncing Back is an eight part fact sheet series that provides families with information and strategies to use when a family member is laid off or loses income. The series covers these individual topics:
- Bouncing Back When Your Income Drops: Overview
Losing your job, being laid off, or having your family income decrease is traumatic.
However, you can bounce back and learn valuable skills through the process of finding
a new job. This four-page publication, ...
- Bouncing Back When Your Income Drops 1: Making Sense of My Losses
The first in a series of eight publications about rebounding from unemployment, this
four-page publication helps explain the emotional responses to job loss. It covers ...
- Bouncing Back When Your Income Drops 2: Working Together as a Family
The second in a series of eight publications about rebounding from unemployment, this
eight-page publication explains how income loss affects every aspect of a family’s life, ...
- Bouncing Back When Your Income Drops 3: Checking Financial Resources
The third in a series of eight publications about rebounding from unemployment, this
six-page publication explains how the loss of income can help families make positive
changes. It can ...
- Bouncing Back When Your Income Drops 4: Setting Spending Priorities
A loss of income forces a family to evaluate its spending. Your family must plan on
new spending priorities as soon as possible, and all family members should be involved
in the ...
- Bouncing Back When Your Income Drops 5: Paying Creditors
If your income suddenly drops because of things you cannot control, how you manage
until your income returns to normal will depend on how you approach the situation.
You must take action ...
- Bouncing Back When Your Income Drops 6: Cutting Corners and Economizing
The effects of a reduced income can be managed by economizing. The result will be a
more effective use of resources, especially time and money. The sixth in a series of ...
- Bouncing Back When Your Income Drops 7: Using Community Resources
Losing a job or income can be frightening for individuals and their families.
Fortunately, many services can help families during this stressful time. The seventh in
a series of eight ...
- Bouncing Back When Your Income Drops 8: Finding New Employment
Finding a good job with a future does not mean you just apply for whatever jobs are
available. Finding a job with a future means you need to do some work before you
being to apply. The first in a ...
Skills for Taking Control of Your Future Update is a 15 session curriculum that provides personal and work readiness’ skill activities for limited-resource persons seeking to enhance their ability to obtain or retain employment. Ten sessions engage participants in learning through hands-on activities how to apply life skills such as problem-solving, decision-making and communication in work and home situations. The last five sessions assist individuals in strengthening their workplace skills and behaviors. Each session has a teaching plan, overheads, handouts and teaching tools. Evaluation strategies are included in the curriculum.
Youth Instructional Materials
Get in the Act program guide is a resource that provides for middle schoolers activities that focus upon preparing them to enter the workplace as a teen or adult employee. The activities enhance the Get in the Act 4-H project. All of the activities are designed to assist middle school youth in exploring work-related personal qualities, teamwork, and career choice. The resource guide can be used by itself or in support of the 4-H project.
Connecting To My Future Family curriculum is designed to provide adolescents with an in-depth understanding of the process that learning to love involves. It assists teens in exploring the challenges that today's society presents in establishing a lasting relationship. The curricuum engages adolescents in interactive learning of skills and information that support successful relationship interaction. The six sessions are most typically taught in interactive 45-minute sessions, involving discussion, role-play and hands-on activities. The curriculum includes teaching plans, handouts, activities instructions, teaching tools, evaluation strategies. Accompanying the curriculum is a CD with PowerPoint slides that can be used to assist in the teaching of each session.
Wild Over Work is a 4-H project focuses upon helping elementary children learn the skills needed to succeed in the work world. It provides fun experience based activities that guide children through learning about Work Around Me, Work in My Community, Work Around the World, Work in My Future.
Get Ready, Get Set, Get a Job is a 4-H project that teens experience in how to acquire a job. The topics that are covered are application completion, resume and cover letter writing, interviewing skills and appropriate ways to follow-up on and interview. The project assist youth in building the skills to obtain a job.
Mini-Society ™ is an experience based program that teaches elementary youth about entrepreneurship and how the economy functions. The program is funded by the The Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. The interactive program provides youth with the opportunity to experience the skills needed to start and operate a business within the context of an active economy. The fun experience based program can be delivered in various formats.
Character at Work is a resource that provides for teens work-related activities using the Six Pillars of Character of the CHARACTER COUNTS! Each of the six pillars – trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship – has three activities that provide teens with the means to actively explore a facet of ethical character in a workplace situation. Also, provided are four Ethical Decision-Making activities that challenge teens to think in a broader context about how aspects of character can come into conflict. These activities are all provide hands-on and interactive opportunities that assist teens in learning and applying ethical behavior in working situations.
What to Do? A Youth Mentoring Career Curriculum is a curriculum designed to assist mentors and mentees in recognizing the behaviors that support a successful mentoring experience. The focus of the curriculum is on using the mentoring to assist an adolescent to learn more about a specific career or job. The 223 curriculum features teaching units covering the What is a Mentoring Relationship?, Skills for Mentoring Communication, Practicing the Art of Mentoring and Mentee’s Role. Each unit includes a teaching plan, overheads, handouts and teaching tools. The curriculum also contains Web Based Career Related Activities, Mentor Resources and Evaluation Tools.
