Health & Life Skills

Members are encouraged to work with
different community members to enhance
their ties to a variety of organizations and
opportunities in the greater Nashua area.

The Health and Life Skills Core Program Area develops young people’s capacity to engage in positive behaviors that nurture their own well-being, set personal goals and live successfully as self-sufficient adults.

Smart Moves
A Skills Mastery and Resistance Training program, SMART Moves addresses the problems of drug and alcohol use and disruptive behaviors. Using a team approach of Club staff and peer leaders, the program involves youth in discussion and role-playing, practicing resistance and refusal skills, developing assertiveness, strengthening decision-making skills, and analyzing media and peer influence. To make members comfortable, the program is broken down into various age levels and groups.

Smart Girls
An outgrowth of the SMART Moves program, SMART Girls is a health, fitness, prevention/education, and self-esteem enhancement program for girls ages 10 – 15. The program encourages healthy attitudes and lifestyles that enable early adolescent girls to develop to their full potential.

Teen Girls Group
Created to address the needs an issues of older teen girls, topics, discussions, workshops and field trips help this teen driven program to allow girls to address the social, school, media, and home issues that are affecting their lives. Goal setting, mentoring, and volunteerism are key elements to the success of this program.

Other Health and Life Skills programs: youth entrepreneurial programming, cooking instruction, health and prevention programs, independent living classes, and more.

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