Life Skills - Reading program may open windows for jail inmates

Reading program may open windows for jail inmates
Cincinnati Enquirer - Instead of sitting in a cell, a lot will take the time to read books and improve their life skills.

Pushed out at 18
St. Petersburg Times - The budget request recently filed by the Department of Children and Families is only the latest bad news for the state's aging foster youth. The state is required by law to provide life-skills training for foster children age 15 through 18.

Exclusion calls for life skills training for unemployable young people
Personnel Today - Disadvantaged young people in Britain should be offered 'basic life skills' lessons, covering anger management and waking up on time, a government report recommends.

Looking to change
Wilmington Star - with New Hanover County jail inmates Cannon Garr and Chris Black after the Life Skills class she teaches of the inmates in a "Life Skills" class, held every Friday at

Youth, adults learn work force skills
Shawnee News Star - includes activities that encourage youth to develop life skills and decision making skills important in the workplace