Strengthening Life Skills for Youth

This Life Skills Guide is a practical tool to help users – donors and youth serving organizations - enhance the design, planning, implementation, and evaluation of life skills programming and training based on a set of nine Life Skills Standards of Excellence. These standards have been developed by the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and its partners around the world based on more than a decade of experience in the life skills arena. This guide is intended for any organization that works with youth (aged 15-29), as well as the donors that support this work.