Preparation for Independence Ready for Independence Desire for Independence Preparation for Independence Module 1: Lesson 1

Question to Consider What are your reasons for attending this lesson? About you: Questions to Consider 1 Question to Consider What are your reasons for attending this lesson? 2 Question to Consider What would make this a valuable and worthwhile lesson for you? 3 Question to Consider What does independence mean to you?

Learning Zone Benefits New Skills Connect to Life 1. 2. 3. 4. What’s in it for you? – We aim to: 1. Learning Zone Create an atmosphere where you can develop your confidence and feel able to contribute in discussion and other activities. 2. Develop your awareness of the benefits of the adequate preparation and planning for independence and adult ways of living. Benefits 3. New Skills Develop your knowledge, understanding and skills in decision-making specifically in relation to your search for independence and self-identity. 4. Connect to Life Give you the opportunity to reflect on what you are learning in each lesson and to identify ways that you can apply your new skills in your daily life.

Ready for Independence Our educational programmes are highly interactive, and delivered mainly through group-work sessions. The aim is to help in the preparation of young people for the challenges and added pressures they will face as they transition from adolescence to adulthood. As young people develops from puberty to adolescence, and from adolescence to adulthood, the focus is on providing additional help in enhancing their knowledge and understanding, and practising new skills as the learn more about themselves, and the impact of the rapid physical and emotional changes that takes place in their lives as they journey towards greater independence and freedom. Developmentally, puberty is accompanied by major physical and emotional changes that alter a young person’s relationships and patterns of interaction with others. The transition into adolescence begins the move toward independence from parents and the need to establish one’s own values, personal and sexual identity, and the skills and competencies needed to compete in adult society. Independence requires young people to renegotiate family rules and degree of supervision by parents, a process that can generate conflict and withdrawal from parents. At the same time, social networks expand, and relationships with peers and adults in new social contexts equal or exceed in importance the relationships with parents. The criteria for success and acceptance among peers and adults change. Adapting to all of these changes in relationships, social contexts, status, and performance criteria can generate great stress, feelings of rejection, and anger at perceived or real failure. Young people may be attracted to violent behaviour as a way of asserting their independence of the adult world and its rules, as a way of gaining the attention and respect of peers, as a way of compensating for limited personal competencies, or as a response to restricted opportunities for success at school or in the community. Good relationships with parents during childhood will help in a successful transition to adolescence, but they do not guarantee it. Ready for Independence

What happened to Ryan? What happened to Kelly? Exploring cause and effect: Watch film’s opening sequence.. What happened to Ryan? What happened to Kelly?

Questions for Discussions What are the causes of Ryan’s problems?     What decisions did he make or fail to make? What are the obvious consequences for Ryan? What did Ryan do next?

Questions for Discussions What are the causes of Kelly’s problems ? What decisions did she make of fail to make ? What are the obvious consequences for Kelly? What did Kelly do next?