Ready, Set, Fly! A Parent’s Guide To Teaching Life Skills

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Ready, Set, Fly! A Parent's Guide To Teaching life Skills Tucson division 1600 North Country Club Road Tucson, AZ 85716-3160. 2001. Casey Family Programs. Seattle WA. All rights reserved. Program Overview Casey Family Programs Foundations for the Future The mission of Casey Family Programs is to support families, youth, and children in reaching their full potential. Casey provides an array of permanency planning, prevention, and transition services such as long-term family foster care, adoption, kinship care, job training, and scholarships. Through advocacy efforts, national and local community partnerships, and by serving as a center for information and learning about children in need of permanent family connections, the Programs aim to improve public and private services for children, youth, and families affected by the child welfare system.

The Tucson division created Ready, Set, Fly! for several reasons. First, staff needed a resource that would help them work more easily with families and youth to teach life skills. While parents had resources that described what skills youth should be building, they lacked concrete activities which would help them teach these skills in their ...

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