Social and Life Skills Workshop
The Non-Formal Youth Skills Training Programme launched a two-day, workshop which focused on the development of a Social and Life Skills Manual to be used in the secondary and post secondary institutions in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. The workshop which was funded by UNESCO sought to identify and organize relevant content materials for the manual.
Participants of the workshop, who were persons of St. Kitts and Nevis, focused on key areas such as Interpersonal Skills, Intrapersonal Skills, Vocational Skills and Education Psychology. Other areas included in the discussions were health and healthy life styles as well as ways in which such the manual could be used in schools and training institutions to assist in curbing educational and societal ills which would in turn would create better and productive citizens.
According to Mr. Fritzroy Wilkin, Director of Youth Skills, and Coordinator of the project, the workshop was very timely as the department of Education is now seeking to implement a competency base system of education and training, of which social and life skills would be one of the main pillars.
Ms. Gloria Mills, Social Skills Instructor at Youth Skills expressed her appreciation for the overwhelming .~~Adz:Right~~support which Youth Skills received from resource persons in, health department, counselling unit, community department, private and industrial sector, counsellors of secondary and post secondary institutions in St. Kitts and Nevis, curriculum development unit and the clergy. Also in attendance were students of secondary schools. Ms Mills also expressed profound thanks and appreciation to the many resource persons who were unable to attend but submitted information toward the development of this manual.
The facilitator of the workshop, Mrs. Hazel Ross Robinson spoke, at the start of the workshop, on how the significant things when deemed insignificant can eventually develop into societal problems.
The workshop which was held December 13 -14, 2006 at FND and NEMA respectively, ended in great anticipation of Phase II which would involve the compilation of the first draft of the manual.
