Life Skills Development - YouthInvest Foundation

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.

The YouthInvest “Skills for Life Programme” integrates
Personal, social, and emotional skills
Critical awareness of gender and rights
Awareness of reproductive and sexual health, nutrition and personal hygiene
21st-centurycentury IT and financial literacy
Our 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.
Themes
Understanding self
Growing up
Gender and rights
Nutrition and healthy lifestyle
Sexual and reproductive health
Psychosocial and emotional health
Personal safety and prevention of abuse
Communication and decision-making skills
Resilience
Goal setting
Young people as advocates and change agents
Methods
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 and advocacy events led by youths
Mobile app and digital resource Swasthya Poshan Alaap for Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health
Resource Materials
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 could be found here.

Registered Office
W 113, Greater Kailash Part 2
New Delhi 110048

Head Office 
AltF, Express Trade Tower 2, 7th Floor
Sector 132, Noida 201301

Kolkata Office
2nd Floor, Plot No. 108, 20/6, B. M. Sarani
New Alipur, 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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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.

Our approach

Themes

Methods

Resource Materials

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 could be found here.

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 could be found here.