Life Skills can be learned… Here at Triumph Youth Services we know how important it is to teach life skills. It is harder than ever to find the time to teach life skills to our children. In today’s busy world – with an economy that has both parents working full time, this is often missed. Students struggling with learning disabilities, depression, and low self esteem benefit greatly from the life skills program. As well as the young men coping with a variety of other issues which have them making poor choices. We can help turn that around. We have a life skill group daily to discuss which ever skill is being worked on for that week. Staff gives feedback to the students in regards to what area of the skill needs improvement. Some of the life skills we work on are: Decision making, Anger Management, Time Management, Conflict Resolution, Coping Skills, Communication, Money Management and Sportsmanship. The goal of a life skills training program is to teach the student a new set of responses to social situations, as well as how to integrate his behavior with others in the environment. In order to accomplish this, staff working with the student must have a clear concept of what constitutes appropriate social behavior and life skills, as well as a method of analyzing the student’s current level of functioning. Each staff member is trained in the Life Skill Program. This will help Triumph to focus on the functional relationships between the student’s behavior and the environment, the structure of appropriate social skills and task analysis, and methods of assessing skill deficits and targeting alternative responses. We believe in the youth of today and think they are more talented than ever. We focus on helping the students figure out their strengths so they can build on them. We help them identify their weaknesses and teach them how to turn them into strengths.