1. SOUTHEASTERN
INDEPENDENT LIVING
SKILLS PROGRAM
Department of Children and Family Services
(DCFS) youth in foster care are mandated to
complete an independent living skills program
before they reach their eighteenth birthday.
Southeastern Independent Living Skills
Program serves DCFS and Office of Juvenile
Justice (OJJ) youth ages 14-21 in the Florida
Parishes: St. Tammany, Tangipahoa/St. Helena,
Washington, and Livingston.
We conduct group sessions using a 32 hr
curriculum based on the Casey Life Skills
Assessment (CLSA) model.
The curriculum is based on eight CLSA
domains:
 Daily Living
 Self-care
 Relationships and Communication Skills
 Housing and Money Management
 Work and Study Skills
 Career and Education Planning
 Looking Forward
 Permanency
Independent Living Skills also offers case
management to young adults from 18-21 years
old.
*Summer camps may be offered on an as-needed
basis*
!YEA!
YOUTH
ENTERING
ADULTHOOD
Don’t you think you
need to take
independent living
skills classes?
You could learn how
to:
- Balance a checkbook
- Go on a job interview
- Create a resume
- Find an apartment
- Plan weekly meals
based on good
nutrition
- File taxes
- Develop a savings
plan
- Create and maintain a
budget
- Effectively and
assertively
communicate at home
and in the work place
- Relate to different
cultural groups and
respond to
discrimination
- Develop better study
skills
- Better understand
your own personal
strengths and needs
- Develop a personal
support system
*Other pertinent teen
issues are addressed,
including peer pressure,
alcohol/drug abuse, etc.*