Adult Program

Tools for Life

Our program includes three different program tracks, college preparation, career development, and living skills- developmental program.  Students may have a hybrid of these programs.  Within each of the program tracks, we incorporate tools for life:

  • Social Cognition: Code switching (moving between variations of languages in different contexts), nonverbal communication, humor regulation, conflict resolution/negotiation, cultural/racial sensitivity
  • Self-Disclosure: What you choose to reveal about yourself and how within jobs, school relationships, law, social interactions
  • Resiliency: Positive capacity of people to cope with stress and adversity, “bouncing back” –emotional, sensory, cognitive, physical 
  • Thinking and Problem-Solving: Predicting higher order, previewing, self-monitoring, self-assessment, reflection, and editing, decision-making, causal relationships
  • Metacognition: Thinking about thinking
  • Effective Language and Communication
  • Demystification: Self-awareness and understanding of strengths and challenges
  • Emotions and Brain Functioning: Anatomy, biochemical, fight/flight/freeze override, anger/fear/anxiety awareness and management, depression, OCD, hormones, allergies
  • Personality Types and Variations: Understanding yourself and differences in others
  • Group Dynamics: Work, school, family, peers, societal
  • Expectations of Adulthood: Personal, parental, societal
  • Affect, Awareness and Regulation
  • Social Reciprocity Conflict Resolution
  • Relationship Skills
  • Self-Marketing
  • Code Switching
  • Social Timing 
  • Collaboration
  • Social Facilitation & Inhibition
  • Humor Regulation Understanding and Interpreting Nuances: Appropriateness, timing, audience, delivery, satire, parodies, race based, irony, puns, sarcasm, exaggeration, political cartoons, bathroom humor
  • Empathy
  • Interpretation of others’ feelings through tone, body language and nuance
  • Discourse Topic Selection & Maintenance
  • Stress Management & Anger Management

Celebrate the Lifespan