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New Mexico Collaboration Support Services – NMCSS

3167 San Mateo NE, #117, Albuquerque, NM  87110
(505) 410-1155 or (505) 242-8331
Classes will be held at the Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church - 2401 University Blvd. S.E.


DAILY LIVING SKILLS – "MY PLAN FOR MY SUCCESS"
Recognize your self-empowerment!

CLASS FORMAT
January 16, 2008 - 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Introduction:
1) Support Systems:
A network of people that provide moral and practical support to an individual (family, school, work, church, neighborhood, etc.).  How our support systems affect the things we do and how we feel.
2) Communication Skills:
The ability to understand, express and effectively interact with others (verbal, non-verbal, body language, written), and how these skills effect end results and other people.
3) Values Clarification:
What is considered of worth, excellence, use, and importance to us.  How our ‘value system’ (the total of things we choose to be important and non-negotiable) effects our decisions, actions and relationship with others.

March 26, 2008 - 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

8) Health Awareness: How we view exercise, eating habits, sleep, and general health care/hygiene.
6) Emotion Identification: 
Emotions, what they are, what we feel inside and out, and how significant life events/interpersonal interactions affect our emotions.
5) Self-Esteem/Self-Awareness:
Understanding that we exist as an individual, separate from other people, and how self-awareness plays an important role in our self-esteem.  What your individual role is within your support system, considering your values within that support system.
4) Goal Setting:
Making specific, timed, objectives (things to get done) for making personal progress.
14) Risk Management:
Going for it! The pros and cons of taking risks, based on our belief systems and self-worth. What types of risks are/are not worth taking.

April 16, 2008 - 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

7) Time Management: Organizing it, brain overload, procrastination, myths and balance.
10) Coping Skills:
How we choose to deal with outside events and relationships, and things that influence our emotions and decision making process.
9) Problems Solving: 
Decision making and the consequences of, how it effects us short-term, long term and in our relationships.
11, Assertion: 
How males and females assertiveness looks, asking vs. assuming, how to say “No” and mean it, and knowing the right to ‘change’.
12) Stress Management:
What is stress, what it looks like, sweating the small stuff, and how stress can work FOR us.

May 21, 2008 - 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

13) Anger Management: Getting acquainted with your anger; the styles of anger, stuffing it, letting it escalate, and managing it.  How to recognize things that ‘trigger’ us.
15) Money Management:
Why it is important; what happens if we don’t, what happens if we do; getting rich quick myth, and hard work paying off. How rich uncles and growing old should be considered.

Completion Celebration: Overview of the entire program, certificate of completion, celebration.

 For More information, Contact: Angela Beachem, (505)410-1155 or nmcss@yahoo.com .

Classes will be held at the Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church - 2401 University Blvd. S.E.