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Teaching Youth Life Skills

It is essential to our childrens’ development that they are provided with relevant life skills. It is of great importance that our children be taught basic life skill lessons in order to live the life they dream of as they enter adulthood.

How we teach youth life skills in the focus of this article. We will explore and share youth life skill lessons with you so the time you spend with each child is more productive and moves them to take positive action.

What should be included in a youth life skills program?

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What Happens In A Residential Treatment Program For Alcoholism?

Alcohol is freely advertised in many countries. It is relatively cheap and often easily obtained. It is a part of many celebrations and enjoyed by adults both male and female. Alcohol is a legal product. But it is also at the root of many a sad experience. Drunk drivers cause appalling damage to life and limb. Drunken people are involved in fights. Marriages fail and families break up because of alcohol abuse. The cost in lost working hours due to alcohol related problems is too great to calculate but it is enormous.

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Refugees are not criminals: NCCT demands removal of Conservative Party ad and apology

MEDIA RELEASE

For Immediate Release
Monday 28 March 2011

Toronto, Canada – The National Council of Canadian Tamils (NCCT) is calling on
Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada to remove an election advertisement, which insinuates that Tamil refugees who are forced to arrive through unconventional means are “criminals”, and apologize to Tamil Canadians.

The Conservative Party ad features a photo of the MV Sun Sea which arrived off the shores of British Colombia in August last year with 491 Tamil refugees fleeing war and persecution from Sri Lanka—a country marred by allegations of human rights violations, the denial of fundamental civil liberties, and extrajudicial killings. It calls the Tamils aboard “criminals” who trying to abuse Canadian generosity.

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