Life Skills Training Quotes

I intend to start on shelter homes, and turn them into women's liberating centers, where women not only get therapy and food, but also training on how to become autonomous. These programs would be designed especially for Muslim women, because there are no programs at all. They tend to go to the shelter for a while and then go back to a very abusive environment and then they come and go again.

It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we need some things to give young people positive things to do, and that's including jobs.

Be in no doubt: we are completely committed to make sure we support young people with the additional resources that are necessary to give them the alternatives to the offer that's put forward by the terrible criminals on the streets.

We're all about trying to teach the kids life through basketball.

Skateistan's not just about skating. It’s giving people life skills and hope for the future.

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

At the beginning of me getting out of rehab and thinking about going back to work, I was scared because I didn't know if I could do this clean and sober.

We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.

I started up this program here in Bermuda, working with what society deems under-privileged kids, at-risk kids.

At some point, universities have to do more to prepare players for university life and help them succeed beyond football. There's so much money being made in this sport. It's a crime to not do everything you can to help the people who are making it for those who are spending it.

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.

I've had people that I've given up on, kicked out - situations where I was becoming part of the problem because I was sort of enabling so I said, 'Godspeed, farewell.' And they've come back to me four years later and they're in a CDAAC program or they're getting a PhD.

Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training, job-readiness skills, literacy instruction and, if necessary, the counseling and mental-health services they need to move into the mainstream workforce.

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

If you have fewer teenagers having children, they could focus more on their vocational development.

The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.

I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.

We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center has this wonderful program where they take in the youth, feed them, help them learn how to cook, clean, they help them get jobs, help them learn how to save their money, and they have shelters all over the city.

I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.

I created a foundation for poor children called Sinfonia por el Peru, where they play in orchestras and choirs, learn values and get away from the bad life, become better citizens in every aspect.