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Overcoming Obstacles
Overcoming Obstacles is a free, award-winning, and research-based K-12 curriculum that provides you with the tools to teach your students life skills. With hundreds of activity-based lessons covering more than 30 skills, students learn how to communicate effectively. They learn how to make informed decisions. They learn how to set and achieve goals, resolve conflicts, solve problems, respect one another, and more.
Since 1992, over 500,000 educators in all 50 states and in 175 countries have used Overcoming Obstacles’ free lessons to improve the lives of more than 120 million young people.
Click here to see their library (which is free).
Casey Life Skills
Casey Life Skills (CLS) is a set of free tools that assess the independent skills youth need to achieve their long-term goals. It aims to guide youth toward developing healthy, productive lives. Some of the functional areas that CLS assesses include:
- Daily living and self-care activities
- Maintaining healthy relationships
- Work and study habits
- Using community resources
- Money management
- Computer literacy and online safety
- Civic engagement
- Navigating the child welfare system
Click here to see their Toolkit.
Skills You Need
SkillsYouNeed is passionate about providing high quality information and resources that help you learn and develop the skills you need to make the most of everyday life. Whether you’re at work, a job seeker, student, teacher or parent, or just interested in developing your key skills, you will find plenty of information here about essential life skills. We hope that this information and these resources will help you to improve your personal and professional life.
Click here to see their library.