Life Skills Planning for Adolescents Course Fees: US$480 Course Dates: |
Purpose of the course
This course is designed to assist young people in Africa to face the challenges of growing up and to make complex decisions about their sexual and reproductive health as well as to prepare for the world of work.
Overall objectives
Life Planning Skills provides a wealth of exercises that you can use to help young people to:
- gain knowledge about themselves, sexuality, prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, employment preparation and other topics;
- explore attitudes and values about growing up, gender roles, risk taking, sexual expression and friendship;
- practise the skills of decision making, goal setting, communication, negotiation, and resisting pressure.
Objectives
- Build capacity of trainers to train other trainers on life skills and how to deal with their own value conflicts before they can assist youth to do so;
- Provide adolescents in Africa with an opportunity to learn more about themselves, their interests, strengths, family and personal values and the factors that influence their feelings about themselves;
- Assist youth in Africa to establish goals and make decisions related to future work and parenthood and to encourage them to achieve their goals;
- Increase adolescents' knowledge in three areas: sexuality, planning for a family and communication.
Course organisation
The following units are covered:
- Personal, family and community values
- Adolescent development
- Sexuality
- Gender roles and equality
- Relationships
- Preventing pregnancy
- STIs/HIV/AIDS
- Harmful traditional practices
- Substance use and Abuse
- Planning for the future
- Parenting
- Counselling
