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Youth Leadership and Skills for Life Programme
Enhancing confidence, resilience, and agency among young people
YouthInvest considers life skills to be foundational and essential for young people in understanding, negotiating, and mediating everyday challenges and risks, and preparing them for adulthood as responsible, resilient, emotionally and socially adept productive citizens.
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We currently work in more than 90 secondary and senior secondary schools, and more than 500 villages in Assam, Jharkhand and West Bengal, reaching 100,000 plus adolescents and youths through our life skills development programme, supported by ITC Ltd., Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiative and TATA Steel Foundation.
Youth-led participatory approach
- YouthInvest Foundation’s life skills programme focuses on equipping adolescents and youths with accurate, age-appropriate and culturally relevant information and skills that will help them to navigate day-to-day challenges and prepare for adult life.
- We focus on building leadership, communication, decision-making and advocacy skills amongst vulnerable young people so that they can access development schemes and services.
- We use a customisable curriculum that can be implemented either as a year-long programme or through periodic workshops/ boot camps, in school, college or community settings.
- The programme is led by Youth and Adolescent Leaders who are young people from local communities and schools trained in participatory leadership and facilitation skills.
Themes
- Understanding self
- Growing up and pubertal changes
- Critical awareness of gender and rights
- Nutrition and healthy lifestyle
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Psychosocial and emotional health
- Personal safety and prevention of abuse, including gender-based violence
- Communication and decision-making skills
- Resilience
- IT and financial literacy skills
- Goal setting
- Young people as advocates and change agents
Methods
- Youth leadership training using partcipatory methodology
- Activities and role-play
- Simulation
- Audio-video-based interactive sessions
- Comic book-based activities and interactive session
- Creative and performance-based activities such as theatre, music
- Service learning projects by youths
- Community and school-based advocacy events led by adoelscents and youths
- Mobile app and digital resource Swasthya Poshan Alaap for Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health
We have developed a series of resource materials that we use in our life skills programmes across all 3 states. These are customisable and tailored to the needs of a particular area and context.
The list of resource materials can be found here.

Registered Office
W 113, Greater Kailash Part 2
New Delhi 110048
Head Office
DaftarInda Coworking, Express Trade Tower 2,
7th Floor
Sector 132, Noida 201301
Kolkata Office
4/B, Jyotish Roy Road, 1st Floor, Western side
Kolkata 700053
YouthInvest Foundation is an Indian not-for-profit organisation registered under Section 8, Companies Act 2013, with 12A, 80G and FCRA.
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