Skills For Living collaborates with non-profit organizations, schools and employers to provide comprehensive financial, career, college planning and life skills workshops and mentoring to low and moderate income families and at risk teens with the goal of increasing family financial stability and building sustainable communities.
Description: Skills For Living provides two exciting programs:
20-20 Power Workshops for adult students. This 16 week curriculum provides financial, career and life skills education through interactive workshops and mentoring. The goal is to increase student income and net worth by 20%. S4L volunteers teach and mentor the low and moderate income students. The program is free for most students.
The Game of Real Life is a 64-hour financial, career and college planning program for at-risk teens, which ends in an 8-hour, experiential, reality simulation game where students work, pay bills, take tests, are audited for taxes, buy cars, homes, insurance and address life events, like car accidents and getting married. Volunteers serve as instructors, team leaders and career mentors.
S4L provides extensive training to volunteers.
History: Skills for Living was conceived when Habitat for Humanity asked Ken Decker, CPA-PFS, CFP and Lorraine Decker, ChFC, CLU, MSFS to help Habitat families avoid foreclosure. A year later, S4L had obtained 501(c)3 status and was helping adult students in Houston break the cycle of poverty.
In 2009, S4L expects to have 200 adult students in the 20-20 Power Workshops and 750 at-risk students from 15 high schools attend the Game of Real Life.
We welcome volunteers! Opportunities range from a 2 hour commitment as a program consultant to indepth engagements as an instructor or mentor.
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