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Income, Employment & Education: Life Skills Training
Lifeskills are the skills that many people take for granted, like managing money, shopping, cooking, running a home and maintaining social networks. They are essential for living independently. Some homeless people do not have all of these skills, either because they never acquired them or because they lost them through extended periods of homelessness. Helping homeless people acquire life skills can help them move on from homelessness and resettle into the community. Life skills training is different from support, help or assistance in that the aim is to promote self-sufficiency.

Life skills can be thought of in terms of three broad categories: 1) core or basic skills (e.g. numeracy, literacy and information technology); 2) independent living skills (e.g. managing a household, budgeting, appointment keeping and contacting services, dealing with bills and correspondence); and, 3) social skills (e.g. interpersonal skills, avoiding or dealing with neighbor dispu...tes, developing self-confidence and social networks). There is limited knowledge on the lifeskills needs of many groups of homeless people including: families, people from ethnic minorities, and women.

AUTHOR: Power, Asetha (2008) Homeless Hub. [Show More][Show Less]


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A Canadian Homelessness Research Network (CHRN) initiative. The CHRN has received financial support from the Government of Canada’s Homelessness Partnering Strategy and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada