CALIFORNIA HISPANIC COMMISION ON ALCOCHOL & DRUG ABUSE 5 - 2006

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The above guidelines are illustrative and not exhaustive. The contents of the group sessions will, as mentioned, cover a broad range of topics. Each subsection below includes a brief proposed syllabus for each of the proposed workshops. Corp, Course #1: The FlJERZAS l)NJ()A::' PrnglilnJ. ^n nV(~nll(>w Course Description - This Introductory workshop will serve as an orientation for the youth to the WIA program and will define the purpose of the program, goals and objectives, strategies, Intake rocesses, and the ro ram com onents. Course Objectives - After completing this session, each participant will be able to: list benefits that will accrue to them and their families from their participation in FUERlAS UNIOAS; identify anticipated barriers to their full participation; articulate factors that led to their joblessness or dropout; outline their fears and apprehensions regarding their future; complete all input and additional assessments for their artici ation; and rovide a self-assessment of the su ort needed. Course Orientation - This first workshop will be highly interactive. The objective of CHCADA's staff will be that of eneratin excitement about the ro ram Course Activities - Introductions; share brief bios; Intake/Assessment, review print materials and com onents of the ro ram; si n contract between outh and CHCADA's FUERlAS UNIOAS staff. . Core Course #2: That Thing Called Education: Education Readiness and Vocational Needs Course Description - This course is designed to inform the participants regarding the specific role that education plays or can play in their lives; to encourage youth to examine their interpersonal relationships with their education and to identify factors in the educational environment that may I contribute to their problems. ; Course Objectives - After completing thiS session, each participant will be able to: compare and I contrast the differences in income and earnings of persons by educational level; the differences in marriage and divorce rates; the differences in mortality and morbidity; the differences in rates of reported happiness and life satisfaction; and other differences in life outcomes - all by educational level. The youth will be able to extract from within themselves their "true" feelings about education and identify and describe the experience within the educational environment that helped shape these feelings. They will be able to describe what they feel about their future. Participants will write a Personal Education Plan that outlines their educational objectives and how these will be achieved; collect applications and catalogs so that they can begin learning the application process; and learn to disassociate education from their articular ex eriences at their schools. Course Activities - CHCADA will invite a Professor of Labor Economics or a Human Resources Manager to give a presentation on the benefits of investing in human capital. The objective of this activity is that of convincinq the youth that independently of what they may think of school, education is an instrument of change, growth, and improvement. The areas covered in this workshop will also be covered with the youth on an individualized basis. CHCADIi, will ensure that all participants are alwa s treated like "ro alt " so that their alread -fra i1e self-esteem will be stren thened Core Course #3: Interpersonal Skills: Improving Family Skills Course Description - Family interaction is a primary interpersonal relationship and the participant cannot truly advance hislher individual status without the application of therapeutic assistance to the whole of his/her family. The purpose of this course is that of allowing family members to point out to each other behaviors that have caused them Dain. 22