General Description & Background
This position focuses on the prevention of alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse through a life skills program that targets youth in grades 3rd through 8th. Downers Grove Township includes several communities and provides life skills programs to numerous elementary, middle school and jr. high schools.
This staff will be [...]
Continue Reading →Attention Residents:
The due date for the 2012-2013 Peer Led Life Skills Teacher applications is next Friday, May 25, 2012. All applications can be turned into the Downers Grove Township office at 4340 Prince St, Downers Grove.
The application can be found here.
This is a wonderful leadership opportunity for high school students to [...]
Continue Reading →Perspective Teachers:
We are searching for new student teachers for the 2012 – 2013 school year for our Peer Led Life Skills Program. Majority of the students who teach with this program are from Downers Grove North, Downers Grove South, Hinsdale Central, Hinsdale South and Westmont High School.
The high school leaders are recruited [...]
Continue Reading →Downers Grove Township is seeking new Peer-Led Life Skills Teachers for the 2011-2012 School Year
The Peer-Led Life Skills Program seeks to promote positive social behaviors and establish relationships with the 7th and 8th grade located in the township middle schools. These relationships are reached through a once per month core life skills program for [...]
Continue Reading →On Thursday November 4th, the Downers Grove Township Peer-Led Life Skills Program taught their Self Esteem and Self Image curriculum to the 7th graders at Westview Hills Middle School. The peer teachers taught students on how self-esteem and self-image develop, the difference between self-esteem and self-image, and what are the positive and negative affects on [...]
Continue Reading →Part of my job responsibilities as prevention specialist for Downers Grove Township is to work with local youth who are leaders in our community. During my first three months at the Township I have had the pleasure of meeting several teens that demonstrate wonderful leadership qualities. I’d like you to meet Shirin Ali, [...]
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The Life Skills program continues to reach a wide number of students and the next five months of 2010 will keep our two Life Skills teachers busy. We will be in the following schools through May of 2010:
January – Westview Hills Middle School February – Lakeview Jr. High, Westview [...]
Continue Reading →What is the M.A.SK. Program?
The Township’s Managing Anger Skills is a six week prevention/intervention program for youth ages 12 to 17 and their parent or guardian and is held three times per year. It has been designed to meet the needs of youth and families who have anger related difficulties by providing [...]
Life Skills – Upcoming Events
Our Life Skills program will be quite busy over the next two months, leading up to the Winter Break at the local schools. We will be visiting and teaching at seven different schools in the area before the end of December.
Eighth Grade Classes O’Neill Middle School – November 9th – 13th ATOD Prevention Clarendon [...]
Continue Reading →Helpful Links
Up-to-date information and resources on parenting, drug and violence prevention, and mental health services for youth and families.
Illinois Department of Human Services (DHS) Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (DASA) Illinois Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Association (IADDA) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) [...]
Continue Reading →Here’s What’s Been Happening and Glimpses of What’s to Come . . .
Our year is off to a great start! Our school-based life skills programs have begun. The adult-monitored teen-led Westview Hills Middle School program has started its monthly core and booster curriculum sessions. Talented high school youth from our Township have been trained to facilitate the program. Of course, some added benefits for these high school [...]
Continue Reading →On August 21st and 22nd the teachers of the Township’s Westview Hills Peer-Led Life Skills Program attended their training that would prepare them for the coming school year. What makes this life skills program different from others is the fact that instead of adult teachers, the Township recruits and trains high school students to become [...]
Continue Reading →The Life Skills education program is getting started very soon. We will be teaching the following units at several schools in the month of September.
1) Anti-Bullying at Cass Junior High on September 4th, 11th, and 18th
2) Anti-Bullying at St. Mary of Gostyn on September 14th – 18th
3) Anti-Bullying at Our Lady of [...]
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