- To admit where you are, that your life is unmanageable.
- Believe that you can become totally self-sufficient and successful as a person.
- Make the decision to turn your life around, committing to the program, and your higher power, to accept the changes that will get you there.
- Make an inventory of your current skills, talents, drives, desires, friends, hobbies, and time.
- With the help of a Mentor, make an honest and detailed plan of how you will gain the skills, network, habits, schedules, and resources needed to become successful.
- Gather the needed documents, clothes, and tools to work, as work is the key to success.
- Employ your success plan one item at a time, removing the roadblocks to your success, while adding your empowering traits, one at a time.
- Build your support system of professionals, friends, and relationships.
- Pay the debts you feel you owe to your past, removing the baggage of the past that would hinder your success.
- With the help of your support system, continue to detail your plan to success, removing the items that don’t bring you closer to your success, and adding details that will.
- Continue to improve yourself spiritually, socially, economically, and interpersonally.
- Having achieved self-sufficiency, and clarified the path to success, help others to get on and stay on the path to success by committing yourself to be a mentor to someone else in the program.
Life-Skills are taught. Behavior is learned. America’s Youth deserve the chance for a successful life.
Financial Development
- Get them paying work, establishing income.
- Teach savings and develop an investment plan.
- Work on job skills improvement for better employment opportunities.
- Create a pathway for financial success over the long term.
- Continue financial education.
Administrative and Communication Skills
- Managing household bills and finances.
- Effectively discussing needs and tasks with other household members and teaching them how to perform chores.
- Identifying issues, such as a clogged drain or a broken appliance, and finding solutions.
- Maintaining confidentiality and privacy within the household.
- Planning and working together as a team.
Encourage Health & Well-Being
- Practice small acts of self-care, including getting enough sleep, eating nutritious food, and maintaining personal hygiene.
- Stay connected with friends and family.
- Understanding healthy relationships and personal boundaries.