Ready Set Fly! A Parent's Guide to Teaching Life Skills

This book “was created through a series of discussion groups with foster and adoptive parents, teens, and young adults at the former Tuscon Division of Casey Family Programs. The goal was to develop a practical resource to help caregivers teach youth some of the skills needed for youth to live successfully on their own.” The workbook “is a companion tool for the Life Skills Guidebook, containing activities for use in one-on-one settings” for use by foster and adoptive parents, as well as child welfare professionals and the activities are presented in an easy to use format which “are age appropriate and developmental, matching the levels of the Ansell-Casey Life Skills Assessment and Guidebook.” Topics include daily living skills, housing transportation and community resources, money management, self-care, social development, work and study skills and a family’s story about application of these skills.