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CHOICES LIFE SKILLS PROGRAM

Web Resources

The websites listed below can be extremely helpful in supplementing and implementing many of the exercises in the Choice, Challenges, and Changes books. Please review the websites ahead of time for optimal benefit to you and your students.

Chapter One: Attitudes and Where They Come from

What TV Tells You Worksheet:

Kids Health
www.kidshealth.org (How TV Affects Your Child article)
Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, KidsHealth provides families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information they can use.

Women and Men in History Worksheet:

            Women’s History at About.com
             www.womenshistory.about.com
             Various links to websites containing interesting women history facts and statistics.

            Encyclopedia Britannica Women Profiles
            www.britannica.com/women
            Contains the detailed profiles of three hundred significant women in world’s history.

Women in World History Curriculum
www.womeninworldhistory.com
This unique site is full of information and resources to help you learn about women’s history in a global, non- U.S., context.

Chapter Two: Greater Awareness Can Help You Handle Choices

Working World Information:

Career One Stop
www.careeronestop.org

CareerOneStop is an integrated suite of national web sites that help businesses, job seekers, students, and workforce professionals find employment and career resources

National Research Center for Women and Families
www.center4research.org
National Research Center for Women and Families is dedicated to improving health and safety of women, children, and families.

Wider Opportunities for Women
www.wowonline.org
Wider Opportunities for Women contains facts and statistics about the status of women.

Women in the Workforce Worksheet:

Business and Professional Women
www.bpwusa.org
BPW/USA promotes equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education and information. See 101 Facts About Women for more information about women in the workforce and many other areas of life.

National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology, and Science
www.iwitts.com
IWITTS provides the tools to help integrate women into male-dominated careers -- such as technology and law enforcement -- via their training, publications, products, e-strategies, and technical assistance.

Chapter Three: The High Cost of Living

Lifestyle Budgeting worksheets:

Bankrate
www.Bankrate.com
Comprehensive and free website covering all sorts of financial issues. Excellent resource when doing the lifestyle budgeting exercises for calculating mortgages, car loans, etc. Also includes information on debt management, college finance, and much, much more.

Six Strategies for Family Economic Self-Sufficiency
www.6strategies.com
The project connects national organizations with state and local partners to build and strengthen the capacity of coalitions in the states to gain support for six proven strategies that can improve the chances for self-sufficiency for low-income families. The Family Economic Self-Sufficiency Project is an innovative effort that provides self-sufficiency and living wage information.

Institute of Consumer Financial Education
www.financial-education-icfe.org
Institute of Consumer Financial Education (ICFE) is a consumer oriented, non-profit, tax exempt (501c3), public education organization based in San Diego, California. Useful advice on money management – children and money, credit card use, etc.

Family Education Network
http://life.familyeducation.com
Family Education Website covering a wide range of issues: health, nutrition, social and emotional health, raising teens, family finance, parenting and family. Has an excellent section on teaching your teens to budget and credit cards.

Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
www.cnpp.usda.gov
The U.S. Department of Agriculture website contains nutritional and cost of food information.

Now Find a Job Section:

Bureau of Labor Statistics
www.bls.gov
Here you will find The Occupational Outlook Handbook, prepared by the U.S. Department of Labor. An invaluable resource that lists sample jobs and salaries.

http://www.bls.gov/K12
User-friendly and eye-appealing career website specifically geared for youth. Has a teacher’s guide and lots of helpful career information.

MonsterTrak
www.monstertrak.com
Has lots of useful information on jobs, schools, resumes, etc.

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
www.aflcio.org
Information regarding unions gathered from fifty-four national and international union organizations.

Department of Labor
www.dol.gov
The Department of Labor web page, it has a Women’s Bureau which contains useful information on non-traditional jobs for women and a host of other relevant data.

Ms.Foundation for Women
www.ms.foundation.org
Ms. Foundation directs resources of all kinds to cutting-edge projects that nurture girls’ leadership skills, protect the health and safety of women, and provide low-income women with the tools to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

Corporation for Enterprise Development
www.cfed.org
Focuses on expanding economic opportunity to include all people will bring greater social equity, alleviate poverty and lead to a more sustainable economy. As a leader in economic development for more than two decades, CFED collaborates with diverse partners at the national, regional, state and local levels.

Internet System for Education and Employment Knowledge
www.iseek.org
Facts on non-traditional jobs for women.

Chapter Four: Knowing What You Want Out of Life: Values and Goal Setting

Search Institute
search-institute.org
Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. To accomplish this mission, the institute generates and communicates new knowledge, and brings together community, state, and national leaders. At the heart of the institute's work is the framework of 40 Developmental Assets, which are positive experiences and personal qualities that young people need to grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.

Chapter Five: Decision Making

Teen Advice on About.com
http://teenadvice.about.com
Free advice for teens, teen sex advice, teen dating advice, teen love advice. Good resource for contemporary information on teens.

Chapter Six: Assertiveness

Teen Advice on About.com
http://teenadvice.about.com
Free advice for teens, teen sex advice, teen dating advice, teen love advice. Good resource for contemporary information on teens.

The White House Project
http://www.thewhitehouseproject.org
The White House Project aims to advance women’s leadership in all communities and sectors—up to the U.S. presidency—by filling the leadership pipeline with a richly diverse, critical mass of women. Great source for exploring leadership roles for women in all fields.

Chapter Seven: Family Planning

Institute for Women’s Policy Research
http://www.iwpr.org
The Institute for Women's Policy Research conducts rigorous research and disseminates its findings to address the needs of women, promote public dialogue, and strengthen families, communities, and societies.

Chapter Eight: Skills Identification

Internet System for Education and Employment Knowledge
http://www.iseek.org/sv/12403.jsp
Iseek website skills assessment resource section. Contains a skills assessment form.

Youth Jobs-Canada
www.youthjobs.ca
Interesting Canadian website for youth with resources for self assessment, skill development, career and job information. Has an interesting downloadable Skills Identification Workbook to evaluate entrepreneurial skills.

Chapter Nine: Non-traditional Careers

Internet System for Education and Employment Knowledge
www.iseek.org
Facts on non-traditional jobs for women.

Cool Math site
http://www.math.com

Chapter Ten: Career Planning

Career One Stop
www.careeronestop.org
CareerOneStop is an integrated suite of national web sites that help businesses, job seekers, students, and workforce professionals find employment and career resources

Bureau of Labor Statistics Career Information
http://www.stats.bls.gov/k12/html/edu_over.htm
User-friendly career website for teens created by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Chapter Eleven: Financial Aid for School or Training

College Board
www.collegeboard.com
Register for SAT, ACT, scholarships etc.

Free Application for Federal Student Aid
www.fafsa.ed.gov
Common application for FAFSA, financial aid form.

Personal Identification Number for FAFSA
www.pin.ed.gov
Request PIN number for FAFSA online.

California Student Aid Commission
www.csac.ca.gov
Information regarding Cal-Grants for qualifying students and their parents.

Fast Web
www.fastweb.com
The best scholarship database available.

Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara
www.sbscholarship.org
S.B. based organizations for scholarships and loans.

Sallie Mae College Answer
www.wiredscholar.com
Everything to complete the application process.

Kaplan
www.kaplan.com
Test prep plus practice SAT tests.

ACT
www.act.org
Info for ACT and registration.

Petersons
www.petersons.com
Search and store favorite colleges.

Chapter Twelve: Rest of Life

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research
http://www.iwpr.org
The Institute for Women's Policy Research conducts rigorous research and disseminates its findings to address the needs of women, promote public dialogue, and strengthen families, communities, and societies.

GENERAL WEBSITES ABOUT AND FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN

Girl Zone - http://www.girlzone.com
Girls Inc. - http://www.girlsinc.org
Girl Scouts - http://www.girlscouts.org
New Moon - http://www.newmoon.org
The White House Project - www.thewhitehouseproject.org