Life Skills Education Toolkit

I am happy to be a boy, I am happy to be a girl Adapted from Voluntary Service Organization, “Life

Skills: An Active Learning Handbook for working with

Street Children;” Thai Red Cross, “Friends Tell Friends

on the Street;” and UNICEF, “Games and Exercises.”

(See Useful Resources for full details)

“My life auction” Adapted from “Spending your Life” game, Life at the

Crossroads

Value voting Adapted from CEDPA, Choosing a Future

Testing the waters Adapted from Stepping Stones

Choosing behavior Thai Red Cross

3 Cs in Decision-making Clare Hanbury Life Skills

Making ripples: Decision-making Thai Red Cross, “Friends Tell Friends on the Street”

Delaying sex Peace Corps Life Skills

Best response game Peace Corps Life Skills

Excuses excuses Thai Red Cross, “Friends Tell Friends on the Street”

You are in the driver’s seat Lions-Quest

Open door closed door Clare Hanbury, Child-to-Child Trust, Sexual Health and

HIV/AIDS, in print

How different are we? Adapted from Ipas, “Gender or Sex: Who Cares?”

How is my body changing? Adapted from The Center for Development and

Population Activities (CEDPA), “Choose a Future” and

Alice Welbourne “Stepping Stones”

Bad touch Clare Hanbury, Life Skills

The immune system dance Adapted from the Immune System Dance by Peace

Corps and What happens in the body of someone

living with HIV? See http://www.bridgesofhope.info

HIV transmission: Doors of entry Stop, Adapted from Peace Corps and Friends Tell Friends

Go, Think on the Street, Thai Red Cross.

Condom race IEC Kit from East Haraghe (see useful resources for

details.

References for Exercises/Activities