"Having once been
an educator within the private correctional system, I know how desperately
many youth in our country need the information that Youth Advocacy
Center's program offers."
~ Barb Terry
JIST Publishing
“On Your Own as a Young Adult provides a set of tools that
every youth needs, especially those from challenged backgrounds.
The book's "Socratic" method patiently teaches—in
a "non-teachy" method—a disciplined but fun approach
to engaging the world, for a job, for a career, for a successful
life. Every youth agency should be using this approach. We do.”
~ David Johnston ,
Senior Program Associate for Life Skills, Casey Family Services,
New Haven, CT
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  On
Your Own as a Young Adult Self-Advocacy Case Studies, Facilitators'
Guide and DVD
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Your Own as a Young Adult is the nationally published curriculum
for Youth Advocacy Center’s renowned Getting Beyond the
System® Self-Advocacy Seminar. Though designed to empower
teens in foster care, the On Your Own curriculum has been
tried and tested with many at-risk young adult populations.
Read a sample case study
from On Your Own as a Young Adult Case Studies.
On Your Own as a Young Adult Case Studies
$16.95
This book includes 23 case studies designed to relate closely to
the lives of at-risk teens transitioning to independent adulthood.
The issues addressed in the cases – finding an apartment,
asking for a raise, keeping a job, etc. – serve as opportunities
for students to learn self-advocacy skills. These include: depersonalizing
issues, setting short and long-term goals, understanding others’
needs, gaining allies and mentors, presenting one’s strengths
and more.
See the Table of Contents for On
Your Own as a Young Adult Self-Advocacy Case Studies.
On Your Own as a Young Adult Facilitator’s Guide*
$26.95
This manual provides Getting Beyond the System® facilitators
with an overview of the Seminar and explanation of the teaching
techniques – a future orientation, the Socratic Method, use
of personal narratives, etc. – that separate GBS from other
career readiness courses. The Guide also explains class policies
on homework, attendance and participation so as to maintain only
the highest standards for GBS students.
On Your Own as a Young Adult DVD/VHS $49.95
This fifteen-minute film compares the lives of two teens –
one who, without self-advocacy skills, is aging out of foster care
uneducated, unemployed and homeless and the other who practices
self-advocacy, attends an informational interview and is going on
to college.
*Though comprehensive, the Facilitator’s Guide is designed
to be used in combination with Youth Advocacy Center’s Getting
Beyond the System® training.
For more information about the On Your Own books, please
contact Susan Ross at 212.675.6181 or sross@youthadvocacycenter.org.
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