Program Overview
Grade Levels: 11 – 12
The Botvin LifeSkills Training Transitions program is a highly interactive, skills-based curriculum designed to promote positive health and personal development. This program helps adolescents navigate the transition from high school into the workforce and higher education. LST Transitions helps students achieve competency in the skills that not only are key to success but also have been found to reduce and prevent substance use and violence.
Program Learning ObjectiveS
The LifeSkills Training Transitions program uses a developmentally appropriate integrated approach designed to strengthen student abilities in the following areas:
- Personal Self-Management Skills
Provides students with strategies for decision-making, managing stress, and managing time and money.
- General Social Skills
Enables students to strengthen their communication skills and build and maintain relationships in a variety of settings.
- Drug Resistance Skills
Empowers students to understand the consequences of substance use and risk-taking.
Program Structure
- Grades 11-12
- Consists of 6 class sessions
- Approximately 40-45 minutes each session
- Taught either as on an intensive schedule (consecutively every day, or two to three times a week) until the program is complete, or on a more extended schedule (once a week for 6 weeks)
- Can be used alone or in combination with the LifeSkills Training High School program
Program Components
Companion website
- www.lifeskills-transitions.com
- Provides students with activities that reinforce lessons with links to health-related information
- Teachers receive instructions for web-based activities and a resource section with information to support classroom lessons
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