Supportive Friends for Youth Leaving Foster Care
Lifeskills
Essentials for Independence
The Mentor Project has activities and workshops to help youth develop valuable lifeskills like:
- Money Management
- Communication
- Work readiness
- Cooking and Nutrition
- Stress Management
- Finding and keeping affordable housing
- Understanding legal issues
Youth help design activities and workshops so the topics and methods are relevant and interesting.
Money $mart
Our most recent project is Money $mart. It is a multi-media curriculum about money choices that includes a board game.
Watch the Money $mart introduction clip
Strategies
We have been there. Many youth in the Mentor Project have gone through what you are facing. See some of their advice on how to survive these common problems.
