Living Skills Facilitator Guide

Understanding and practicing daily Living Skills can be crucial to the success of clients making significant life transitions. Hazelden Publishing's Living Skills program is designed to provide the tools necessary to live a healthy, fulfilling life while meeting the needs of today's diverse client population. This program is ideal for a variety of settings, including addiction treatment centers, mental health settings, educational settings, and criminal justice settings.

Securing Housing, one of the Practical Guidance topic of Living Skills, gives clients the tools to establish secure housing--a necessity in creating a basic sense of safety, and a crucial foundation in achieving further personal development.

The information and exercises in the facilitator guides introduce topics to learners who may be unfamiliar with basic Living Skills. The exercises help learners begin to apply the concepts to their lives. The guides are designed to be used in conjunction with the corresponding workbooks and videos in the Living Skills program. The read-aloud sections, role-plays, and other exercises with group discussions found in these guides are designed to be conducted in a group setting, but could be adapted for individual use

The four sessions of this topic include:

• Session 1: Introduction to Securing Housing
• Session 2: Finding Housing
• Session 3: Before You Move In
• Session 4: Maintaining Housing