"Believe - Achieve - Receive"

Life Skills Training

10 Week Intensive Program
This program is designed for students who do not need long term mentorship and do not have immediate graduation challenges.  It is for teens who need to learn and understand the basic life skills they will need to successfully transition out to society upon graduation.  This ten week program has been taught as a certificate or credit program based on the needs of the students. These teens are also given the opportunity to extend their program beyond the 10 weeks to extended mentorship if desired.  This program covers:

Week 1

  • Making Decisions (critical thinking skills)
  • Making Money

Week 2

  • The Art of Budgeting

Week 3

  • Living on Your Own

Week 4

  • Buying a Home
  • Banking Services

Week 5

  • Credit
  • Credit Cards

Week 6

  • Cars and Loans
  • Consumer Awareness

Week 7

  • Saving and Investing

Week 8

  • Personality Testing and Job Fit
  • Confidence Testing and Assessment
  • Resume Basics

Week 9

  • Resume Creation
  • Interview Skills

Week 10

  • Education Research
  • Education Plan and Career Portfolio

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Smooth Transition has creataed a Pre-Employment Job Readiness, Financial Literacy, and Life Skills 10 week intensive program for students who need less one on one mentoring and want to attain the skills they need faster.  We offer this program as a credit program as well for schools and programs who qualify. Statistically our students come away from our program with much higher levels of confidence across the board. When completing our 10 week intensive program, students tested showed a 26% increase in overall career development confidence levels and a 26% increase in career problem solving confidence, a 22% increase in career planning confidence, a 22% increase in career goal setting confidence, a 27% increase in occupational information confidence and a 26% increase in career self-assessment confidence levels.  Program participants also saw an average 13.32% increase in overall perceived self-worth and value upon completion of the program.  In addition, program participants saw an average 37.5% decrease in perceived achievement barriers.  These barriers include age, physical, self-confidence, education and training, financial, time, family concerns, fear of failure, fear of success, fear of the unknown, lack of focus and fear of making the wrong decision (see graphs below).

Overall Career Development Confidence Scores After Completion Of 10 Week Program

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5 Subscales of Career Development Confidence Scores After Completion Of 10 Week Program

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Perceived Achievement Barrier Scores After Completion Of 10 Week Program

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Perceived Self-Value and Self-Worth Scores After Completion Of 10 Week Program

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Corporate Office:
19310 Jesse Lane, Riverside, CA 92508
(951) 398-4311 & (951) 398-4321
 Registration Line:
(951) 263-9392