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Purpose
Tackling the Tough Skills™:
A Curriculum Building Skills for Work and Life was developed by University of
Missouri Extension to help hard-to-reach adults or teens prepare for success
in work and life. For a curriculum abstract, click here. To order
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Overview
Target Audiences | Features
Curriculum Contents | Author
Cost | Illustrations | Contact
Tackling the Tough Skills™
(Revised) is a fun,
innovative and interactive life skills curriculum that helps hard-to-reach adults or teens
prepare for success in work and life.
Potential trainers
This newly revised curriculum offers a fresh educational
approach for use by:
- Educators
- Welfare-to-work program leaders
- Adult Basic Education (ABE) and General
Educational Development (GED) teachers
- Social service professionals
- Program leaders of pregnant and parenting teens
- Youth workers
- Religious leaders
- Counselors
- Professionals working with ex-offenders
- And anyone seeking to positively impact the lives
of hard-to-reach adults or teens.
Potential clients
The curriculum is easily adaptable to a wide
range of audiences:
- Welfare recipients
- At-risk adults
- At-risk adolescents, including pregnant and
parenting teens
- School-to-work participants
- Immigrants
- Ex-offenders
- Individuals who could benefit from attitude
shifts or improved responsible behavior, communication skills, strategies for decision
making and problem solving, and job hunting skills.
- 244 humorously illustrated pages.
- Includes 80 pages that may be copied by educators to use as
overheads and handouts.
- Easy-to-read format packaged in
a convenient three-ring binder.
- Easily adaptable to a wide range of audiences, although the curriculum was originally designed to help
individuals transition from welfare to work.
- Flexibility.
- The curriculum builds from one component to the
next, but educators also may select individual sections or exercises to supplement other
training materials.
- Text written with unique blend of
honesty, homespun humor, and hard-hitting reality that effectively impacts negative
attitudes.
- Original, highly interactive group
learning experiences (including original role plays, discussions, overheads, games
and activity exercises) that both motivate and challenge participants to get involved.
- Frequent, well-paced activities
that encourage personal reflection and model respect for oneself and others.
Life changed for Rosilee when she became a
Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador at age 18. Hooked
on the euphoria of learning from people unspoiled by education, Rosilee continued her own
schooling in inner-city hospitals, day care centers, housing projects and social service
agencies, as well as in an Eskimo village above the Arctic Circle. Along the way she formalized some learning
experiences and picked up a few degrees. Rosilee
is currently the Urban Youth and Family Specialist for University of Missouri
Extension, where she has directed WorkWays™,
a program designed to assist individuals involved in the transition from welfare to work.
- Missouri residents:
- $80.66 total ($65 per book + $10 shipping & handling + $5.66state sales tax).
- Non-Missouri residents:
- $75.00 total ($65 per book + $10 shipping & handling).
Chris Sharp of St. Charles,
Missouri, illustrated the curriculum.
Rosilee Trotta,
LCSW
Urban Youth & Family Specialist
University of Missouri Extension
121 S. Meramec, Suite 501
St. Louis, MO 63105
Ph: 314-615-2911 or 314-615-7637
Fax: 314-615-8147
E-mail: TrottaR@missouri.edu
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