FOOTPRINTS for LIFE is focused on five key social competencies:
planning and decision-making skills;
To learn more about social competencies, click here.
Footprints is a six-week program taught during a regular classroom period for approximately 40 minutes each week. Weekly homework assignments and educational sheets not only reinforce the lessons between classes, but also involve parents in their child’s learning experience.
Footprints reaches children while their health-related attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors are at a formative stage; provides a resource for teachers to help identify potential problems; and opens the door for parents to have important discussions with their children at home. The program builds internal assets and teaches the important life skills students in grades two and three need to grow up healthy and drug-free.
Through the use of puppets and stories that feature “real life” situations experienced by a children’s soccer team, the program offers many opportunities for students to practice the new skills they have learned in a fun and non-threatening way.
Below are some useful resources that you may find helpful. Some of the websites listed are specific to children, therefore you may want to share these sites with your children. Click on the links below to visit each site.
Rutgers: School of Social Work. Institute For Families
SANHSA - Parent Resource