This TLC facilitator manual aims to have youths set individualized goals to stop, reduce, or maintain in a low level of drug and/or alcohol use. This manual also aims to define youths current use of drugs and alcohol and determine the advantages and disadvantages of reaching the drug or alcohol reduction goal they have set for themselves.
This TLC facilitator manual aims to help youths recognize and identify “external triggers” and relate them to the trigger, thought, craving, and use sequence. The manual also aims to have youths identify and prioritize their external triggers.
This TLC facilitator manual aims to record youths progress on reducing, maintaining, or stopping drug and alcohol use. This manual also aims to help youths identify their own internal triggers and select the most important one.
This TLC facilitator manual aims to record youths progress on reducing, maintaining, or stopping drug and alcohol use. This manual also aims to teach ways to express anger constructively and have youths identify and reduce anxiety.
This TLC facilitator manual aims to provide youths with an understanding of the linkages between the quality of their lives and living each moment without separation from their daily experiences. The manual also aims to have youths discover the feelings involved in the present moment, so that they can identify triggers for substance use or other destructive behaviors prior to engaging in them.
This TLC facilitator manual aims to have youths understand that much of their negative reactions to life is related to wanting actual events and living circumstances to be different from the real situation. This manual also aims to have youths experience more positive feelings in daily activities.
Street Smart is an intensive HIV/AIDS and STI prevention program for youth whose behaviors place them at risk of becoming infected. Life circumstances define risk for some youth; living on the street or in a slum, not attending school, or being an AIDS orphan increases the potential for risky behavior. The Street Smart program is designed for runaway and homeless youth in the United States, yet it can be easily adapted for youth in other settings. This version of the program has been adapted for street and slum youth in Kampala, Uganda. The modified program is the product of extensive collaboration among researchers, staff from public and private agencies serving street and slum youth in Kampala, as well as youth from the community.
The main point of this session is for the participants to learn how to stand up for their own personal values. A lack of social skills may prevent a teenager from initiating a relationship with someone desirable. These skill deficits may result in staying with easy but unsafe relationships. Therefore, practicing the skills of starting conversations and making new friends is included.