DAILY LIVING SKILLS (Take Charge Of Your Life)

Living Skills Facilitators provide individual and small group instruction that assist beneficiaries/clients to learn new and modified skills that enable self-sufficiency in the activities of daily living, such as personal hygiene, clothing care, food management, child care, house cleaning, organization and maintenance. Instruction is "hands-on," and is normally provided in the classroom, and, whenever possible, in the dormitory or in the community, where skills are applied.

Personal hygiene focuses upon those daily routines that attend to one's personal care, such as cleanliness, shaving and applying makeup in support of each person's personal style. Clothing management ranges from labelling and personal organization of clothes, laundering and ironing, and introduction to sewing and various needle arts.

The cooking class curriculum provides clients with information and skills pertinent to food preparation. By practicing the adaptive cooking skills in the classroom kitchens, Beneficiaries/clients can increase their safety, efficiency and confidence.