Vision By 2020, the Life Skills curriculum will be institutionalised as a core component of all post-secondary school and tertiary education programmes; strengthen the capacity of tutors/facilitators to provide high quality, culturally relevant, gender and ethnic-sensitive experiences using a skills – and performance-based approach. The United Nations Inter-Agency Meeting in April 1998 generated a broad definition of Life Skills education: “Life skills education is designed to facilitate the practice and reinforcement of psychosocial skills in a culturally and developmentally appropriate way; it contributes to the promotion of personal and social development, in the prevention of health and social problems, and the protection of human rights.” The Life Skills Development programme is to focus on three (3) broad areas, which require the internalisation of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values into the self and daily practice. Therefore didactic lecturing will not achieve these practical and reflective ends (Chriest and Maher 2001): .Psychosocial Skills – intra and inter-personal; .Societal Skills; .Occupational and Livelihood Skills. Life Skills act as a link between motivating factors – the knowledge of positive behaviours - and action - behaviour change. Life Skills therefore create the capacity and will to choose and implement the desired choices. In both the short term and the long term, life skills translate knowledge of what to do, into how to do it and provide the enabling factors for doing it (Duggan, 2003). Life Skills encourage the development of a core set of skills across cultures and settings. Life Skills also promotes the development of the ideal Caribbean Person, who displays respect for human life, an appreciation of family and community values, moral issues and has an informed respect for our cultural heritage. Stakeholders and MSTTE Programmes offering Life Skills .Ministry of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education .COSTAATT .MuST .Retraining .YTEPP .HYPE .Hospitality Institute .Ministry of National Security .Civilian Conservation Corps .Ministry of Social Development .Ministry of Education .Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs .Ministry of Agriculture .Ministry of Community Development and Gender Affairs .Ministry of Energy .Ministry of Education Curriculum Development Life Skills Cabinet Appointed Steering Committee Ceronne Prevatt-Wiltshire Life Skills Adviser Ministry of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education Cheryl Ann Boodram Youth Camp Assistant Director Chaguanas District Office Ministry of Sport & Youth Affairs Major Archilus Phillips Programme Director (CCC, MILAT, MYPART, NYS) Ministry of National Security Donna Scoon-Moses Programme Manager, Retraining Ministry of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education Marilyn Yearwood Coordinator, Non-Traditional Skills Training of Low Income Women Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs Sharon Dougalass-Mangroo Director of Curriculum Development Ministry of Education Curriculum Developmentv Represented by Carlise Branker Ministry of Education Curriculum Development Wendy Ann Wattie Acting Senior Planning Officer Ministry of Social Development Contact Us Ceronne Prevatte Tel: 628-7867 or 6229922 ext. 182 Upcoming Events Curriculum Workshops for Tutors on the 3rd Friday of every month 9:00 am - 3:00 pm at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education- Training Room, Ground floor.