Life Skills

Raul Zarate

Life Skills Coach

Office Hours (Mondays, 3 – 5 p.m.)

Counseling office by PPT

Supporting students in areas of employment/career exploration, postsecondary education, financial literacy labs, and obtaining California ID/Driver’s license. Areas include but not limited to: Time management/organizational skills, anger management, financial literacy/investments, financial aid, budgeting, critical thinking skills, intrapersonal communication skills (positive self-talk), and job mock interviews.

Why Is Basic Life Skills Important?

Basic Life skills provides readily available tools to deal with challenges/demands of daily lives the youth face, from managing their emotions to make an informed decision. It also helps develop children’s personality, talents, and mental and physical abilities, and realize their true potential through learning to know oneself and others, and make effective decisions to live harmonically together in the society.

Expected outcome: Through life skills education, young generations are equipped with foundational skills necessary for transitioning to productive adulthood; manage stress; learn to deal with difficult emotions; practice positivism; improve self-esteem; feel empathy; learn to listen to others carefully; learn to set personal boundaries; handle dispute well; find balance between priorities and demands; communicate confidently; set goals; make decisions; solve problems; think critically and creatively; use executive functioning skills; and learn to bounce back from adversity.