Designs For Progress provides life skill curriculum for teaching at-risk, corrections and adult basic education students. We offer innovative methods for teaching independent living skills, character education and reentry programs. Life skills and character education lesson plans are incorporated the student workbooks and the Instructor Resources Guides. We also provide a series of teacher professional development programs to help teachers reach at-risk students.

If you work with at-risk juveniles, adults in basic education or GED classes, inmates, or parolees, you know that at-risk students need more than mathematics and reading. They need teaching independent living skills, also known as values or character education. Cllick on the headings in the maroon band at the top of the page to see a listing of the materials we provide for students and professionals.

Student materials are designed to improve self-esteem, encourage positive changes, help students take responsibility for their actions and develop a plan for their lives. All student materials are completely REPRODUCIBLE. Staff development programs give teachers tools for teaching independent living skills.

Personal Living Skills Series: Adult Student Workbooks

Categories | Reentry/Adults | Personal Living Skills Series: Adult Student Workb

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Taking Responsibility and Control   Product Code: AS 9801  Your at-risk adult students are not helpless. Their situation is not hopeless. Students will find they have new power and freedom the minute they exercise self-control and take responsibility for their attitudes and actions. Inmates who are preparing for reentry need to re-establish their feelings of responsibility and control. During their incarceration, it was easy for them to shift control to wardens, corrections officers, or others. As they return to their communities, it is imperative that they understand the importance of taking responsibility for their actions and control of their lives.   Taking Responsibility and Control shows students the advantages of taking control of their lives. It explains how they can gain from their efforts. At-risk adult students learn specific ways to change and are challenged to begin to take responsibility and control, regardless of their past or present situation. Because it is a significant problem for many students, there is a special section on gaining control of anger.   Product content: 101 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty	Tools for Successful Living   Product Code: AS 9802  At-risk adult students often find themselves forced to attend education or training programs to get or keep benefits. Unfortunately, classrooms hold a very negative image for many of them. Many failed at school and are reluctant to become involved in any situation which could repeat the embarrassment. Their attitudes about learning are negative and they have not developed skills that can make learning enjoyable and rewarding. As inamtes prepare for reentry, they will be faced with learning many things that didn't even exist when they were incarcerated. Technology has revolutionized our lives. Most ex-felons are not prepared for the learning curve required to master everything from pay at the pump to the internet. The pressure to learn so many new things can create very negatrive attitudes.   The Tools for Successful Living workbook can help change those attitudes and give at-risk adult students tools to make learning easier and faster. As students learn to use tools like repetition and association, their ability to acquire new concepts improves. When at-risk adult students develop attitudes such as expecting success and getting excited about learning and the advantages it can give them, they become more willing and able learners.   Product content: 76 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty
Improving Self-Esteem   Product Code: AS 9803  Many adult at-risk students have made poor decisions resulting in failure. As a result they have learned poor self-esteem. But those attitudes of failure and poor self-esteem can also be unlearned. As inmates prepare for reentry or as other adult student search for ways to be successful and productive, the topics in this workbook serve as a practical framework for regaining a postive self-perception. Improving Self-Esteem introduces the seven basic building blocks of self-esteem: Self-acceptance Self-confidence Self-respect Self-determination Self-discipline Self-fulfillment Sense of humor The workbook gives students specific steps to help them increase their self-esteem and change their attitudes in each of those building blocks. When at-risk adults begin to succeed in any area of their lives, the momentum of success can and does transfer to other areas. When self-esteem is improved, at-risk adults students become better learners, workers, parents, and citizens. Product content: 95 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty	Taking Care of Yourself   Product Code: AS 9804  At-risk adult students frequently have habits that are unhealthy. These include lack of exercise, poor eating habits, substance abuse, unsafe sexual practices, and many others. All of these habits lead to less energy and poor attitudes. For inmates preparing for reentry, these are habits that may have been partially controlled by their incarceration. As a result, ex-felons will need to make new personal decisions about these practices at one of the most stressful periods of their lives. This workbook introduces the important and often ignored concept of total health by describing five health areas: Physical Mental Emotional Social Spiritual The workbook uses examples such as AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases, and depression to help students understand the importance of physical and mental health. Smoking, alcohol, and drug abuse receive special attention, including proven action plans for stopping these abuses. Using step-by-step worksheets, students are motivated to improve their health. Product content: 93 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty
Making Spare Time Good Time   Product Code: AS 9805  At-risk adult students feel better and act better when they enjoy life. However, many have never had a chance to learn how to use spare time in a productive and satisfying way. In fact, the poor use of spare time may have played a part in past failures at work, at school, and in relationships. For inmates planning for reentry, the use of spare time is especially critical. After release, spending time in the wrong places with the wrong people doing the wrong things are key contibuting factors resulting in recidivation. Ex-felons need to make good choices about the use of their spare time.   Making Spare Time Good Time defines recreation, listing over three-hundred sports, hobbies, and recreational activities. The workbook shows students the advantages of participating in activities they like. Making Spare Time Good Time gives students opportunities to choose activities they would like to learn more about. They are strongly encouraged to become involved to the extent they can, using balance and moderation. Product content: 72 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty	Developing Your Values   Product Code: AS 9806  At-risk adult students have often developed values based on those shared by adult authority figures or peers. Unfortunately, those values may include discrimination, prejudice, dishonesty, and immediate gratification. When at-risk adult students improve their values, they improve their odds for success. For inmates who are planning reentry, the values systems they developed while incarcerated may not be applicable to the outside. Ex-felons need to reexamine the values they hold and decide how those will benefit or harm them as they reenter society.   Developing Your Values explains the reasons and ways that principles, standards of behavior, and laws are formed. After looking at religious and social sources of values, students learn advantages and reasons for choosing positive behaviors. Personal standards of good conduct and alternatives to bad social behaviors are described. Developing Your Values discusses cults, gangs, prejudice, sexual, and racial discrimination so students understand their inherent dangers. Students study guilt, avoiding excessive guilt, and working through guilt feelings. Developing Your Values introduces students to the positive benefits of successful living through honesty, impulse control, and empathy. Product content: 88 pages   Price: $139.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty
Set of Six: Adult Personal Living Skills Workbooks   Product Code: AS 9000  The complete set of six Adult Personal Living Skills Series Student Workbooks contains the following: Taking Responsibility and Control Tools for Successful Living Improving Self-Esteem Taking Care of Yourself Making Spare Time Good Time Developing Your Values Product content: 6 books, 525 pages   Price: $750.00 Shipping: Calculated at Checkout   Qty

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