Program Overview
The Botvin LifeSkills Training High School program is a highly interactive, skills-based program designed to promote positive health and personal development for high school youth. Based on the highly effective LifeSkills Training curriculum, this program helps adolescents navigate the challenges of the high school years and prepares them for the independence and responsibilities that they will encounter as young adults. The LifeSkills Training High School program uses developmentally appropriate, collaborative learning strategies to help students achieve competency in the skills that have been found to reduce and prevent substance use and violence.
Program Learning ObjectiveS
The LifeSkills Training High School 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 anger.
- General Social Skills
Enables students to strengthen their communication skills and build healthy relationships.
- Drug Resistance Skills
Empowers students to understand the consequences of substance use and risk-taking and the influences of the media.
Program Structure
- Grades 9 or 10
- Consists of 10 class sessions
- Approximately 40-45 minutes each session
- Taught either 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 10 weeks)
- Can be used alone or in combination as maintenance to the LifeSkills Training Middle School program or the LifeSkills Training Transitions program
Program Components
Companion website
- Provides students with activities that reinforce lessons and 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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