The Life Skills program at Chapin is the result of years of study and input from various constituencies of the school community. Identified in our last strategic planning initiative in 1996 as an area for us to address, the school responded by appointing a full-time Director of Counseling Services and Life Skills Education. That person's job was to oversee the development and implementation of a coherent K-12 social and emotional program that was sequential, age-appropriate, and effective in addressing the needs of our students, parents and faculty. The result is a thorough and complex mix of programs and activities that address the major themes of self-advocacy, conflict resolution, friendships and other relationships, decision making in social situations, and physical and emotional well-being across a developmental spectrum. Below you will see the program in more detail.

Click Here to see a PowerPoint presentation that will answer the questions in the box below. To advance the slides, click on the forward and backward pointing arrows at the bottom of the page that opens with the first slide.

• What does the term "life skills" mean at Chapin?

• Why do we need Social and Emotional Education or "life skills" at Chapin?

• What types of things are included in the Social and Emotional Education (or "life skills") programs at Chapin?

• How do we implement these programs?

• Where do the ideas originate?

• When does Life Skills programming happen?

• Who determines what goes and what doesn't?

 

Last updated 03.14.07

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