Between making financial decisions, maintaining a healthy work-life
balance, and juggling health, family, friends, and other
responsibilities, life can feel overwhelming. Place these same
responsibilities on an individual just entering adulthood who has less
real-life experience and it can feel even more overwhelming. So why not
make sure our teens and young adults are more prepared to face the world
before they go out on their own? How can we also reinforce these skills
for adults who may never have learned them or who may need a refresher?
This book provides a hands-on and interactive approach to creating and
planning library programs and activities that will enable patrons to
learn and build the most important life skills. Readers will discover
- how life skills library programs can encourage participants to imagine
and prepare for real-world situations;
- a rich variety of step-by-step programs, complete with planning tips,
instructions, and a materials and equipment list, for activities such
as Mock Job Interviews, Financial Literacy Jeopardy, planning of week
of dinners, Spring Cleaning Visualizations, the art of packing a
suitcase, practicing self-care, a stress-relief dance party, and many
others;
- advice on planning, partnership opportunities, promotion, evaluations,
and sustainability;
- ways to promote a safe space and a relaxed environment while leading
programs; and
- additional helpful resources, including a planning template and
reading tie-ins.
