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Breathe Easy!
Breathe Easy! is a smoking prevention publication that gives students the tools to explore the facts and issues related to tobacco use, interrelating with their peers and determining the best solutions to prevent tobacco use.
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Business Perspectives
Our student workbook includes a CD ROM that introduces students to the world of business. Using a computer-simulated business game, the participants operate their own businesses and discover first hand how the free enterprise system works.
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Critical Thinking
The decision-making and evaluation process is illuminated in this instructional guide with meaningful steps on how to approach the conceptual aspects of critical thinking.
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Employee Training
This skills-packed workbook teaches transferable job skills through a simulated "new employee" training method in the field of customer service and customer relations. Topics include - communication on the job, giving and following directions, customer service, money transactions, using business forms and more.
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Effective Employee
This information-packed workbook addresses key skills needed to develop good work habits so when you find a job …you keep it. Topics include: human behavior, communication, understanding managers and company structure, advancing in an organization, self esteem, goal setting, honesty and ethics in the workplace, time management, stress management and more.
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Decisions
Our pregnancy prevention manual addresses key facts about pregnancy prevention and the strategies and skills needed to make responsible decisions. The student workbook and activities are designed to be driven by the students, not the teacher and deal effectively with issues of parenting, responsible fatherhood and sexuality.
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Computer Literacy
An introduction to computer technology, basic word processing, spreadsheet applications and using the Internet.
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Community Service
This handy workbook provides instruction and practice in the skills needed to be a successful volunteer and provides the framework for planning and executing a local community service project. Students will gain an appreciation and sense of community responsibility and involvement.
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Life Coping
This inventive publication prepares individuals for the future by introducing them to the kinds of decisions required of responsible adults. Students learn life skills as they journey through a simulation of real-life events and activities including: applying for employment, taxation and filing returns, insurance and legal issues, opening and managing a checking account, budgeting and paying for living expenses, applying for and managing credit and loans, insurance and more.
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You Can Be Fit
Our handbook introduces youth to a healthy lifestyle that includes a nutritious diet and physical activities. Includes instructional content coupled with a physical exercise program. Topics include: development of a healthy lifestyle, nutrition, intake recommendations, benefits to exercise, components of a well-balanced exercise routine, barriers to exercise and how to overcome them, body composition, body mass index, heart rate, assessing your fitness level and more.
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Interpersonal Relationships and Groups
Our workbook teaches students to understand the importance of leadership and how to successfully interact with others in one-on-one and group situations. Practice exercises explore personal traits, present effective techniques for conflict resolution, empathy towards others and group dynamics.
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Exploring Careers
This informative workbook guides students as they explore potential career paths. It takes the student step-by-step through the process of developing a personalized career plan. The workbook examines occupational classifications, job titles, physical demands of jobs, wages, education, training and financial aid options and features career and personality assessments as well as local labor market information..
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Job Search
This valuable manual gives you all you need to know to prepare for employment when the time comes to seek a job. The Job Search workbook provides job seekers with the key employment skills needed to conduct an effective job search. Topics include: Identifying job openings, completing job applications, writing a resume, cover letters, interviewing skills, follow-up techniques and more.
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Supplemental Topics
This publication provides instruction in personal hygiene, good nutrition, caring for your home, dress, parenting, family planning and substance abuse. Topics include: family planning, parenting, personal hygiene, health and nutrition, caring for your home, substance abuse and basic first aid.
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Working Basics 60 Set
This workbook presents 60 basic skills that businesses throughout the United States have determined are required for entry-level employees to be successful on the job. Each skill module contains instructional text with practice exercises and a quiz to measure competency.
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Working Basics Essential Skills
This book is devoted to the essential skills that all employees should bring to the labor market. We analyzed independent, employer-validated research to bring you the 20 core basic skills common to 42 entry-level occupations. Each module contains instructional text with practice exercises and a quiz to measure competency.
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Working Basics: Pre-Employment and Work Maturity (PEWM) Skills
This workbook on pre-employment and work maturity skills common to entry-level occupations presents topics that prepare the client for both finding and keeping a job. Each module contains instructional text with practice exercises and a quiz to measure competency.
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Working Basics Life Skills
This module will prepare clients for the future by introducing them to the kinds of decisions they will make as responsible adults. Students learn to manage their money and live independently through 14 core life skills modules. Working Basics Life Skills prepares students for the real-world. Each module contains instructional text with practice exercises and a quiz to measure competency.
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Work Up Plans – for Worksite Skill Measurement
Individual work plans for the 29 most frequently used work experience skill areas. Each plan allows for the documentation of worksite skills by providing a list of competencies to be mastered for that work assignment, a standard to measure skills attainment and a method of measurement for each skill. Plans can easily be customized for each worksite and student.

Work Experience Field Kit
This management publication is designed to facilitate and enhance the traditional work experience for youth training and will strengthen the process by which youth obtain a meaningful and valid work experience.
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Work Prep – an Orientation to the Workplace
A collection of 8 short, self-paced lessons in the basic skills needed for success in the workplace. It includes basic skills that are vital for success on the job. Includes a workbook and portfolio.
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Mentoring
The Mentoring Training manual defines mentoring and why it’s important. It provides program information, identifies mentoring goals and discusses the awareness, promotion and self-esteem needs of youth. Program ideas for discussion and mentoring activities are included.
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Reclaim
A turnkey, work-based learning curriculum for the classroom. Neatly packaged in an instructional kit complete with student workbook, work apron, materials, task plan and pen. Students learn real job skills as they learn how to operate a Reusable Resource Center right from their classroom!
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Career Planner - for Dislocated Workers
Career Planner challenges dislocated workers to take action – the single most important part of securing a job. Over 150 pages of strategies, tools and information for a successful job search including: Career Assessment and Exploration, Lead Sourcing, Networking, Applications, Resumes, Interviewing and Follow-up.
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Work Planner
Our Work Planner is designed to help students map-out a step-by-step plan for employment. It addresses life change issues, feelings of inadequacy, budget preparation, effective communication and more. Includes over 15 hours of employability skills instruction and worksheets.
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Community Allstars Community Service Project Guide
A student workbook and instructional guide for choosing, planning, promoting and accomplishing meaningful group community services project. It provides a framework for the selection, planning and execution of a meaningful group project that benefits the community. Includes handy forms, checklists and guidelines to help the group organize the project and schedule tasks.

It’s Up to… Me
It’s up to… Me is a creative, interactive substance abuse prevention publication for teens. The curriculum's emphasis is on demonstrating to teens that drug and alcohol use is ultimately their choice. Topics include: using and experimenting with drugs and alcohol, the real personal costs of those behaviors and their potential impact on others, triggers that cause teens to try drugs and alcohol, decision making, saying no and more.
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School Planner & Study Skills
This instructional package combines the basics for becoming an excellent student with the tools needed to stay organized and on track. Topics include: organization, scheduling assignments, reading textbooks, taking notes, test taking skills, conducting research and writing a report or research paper. Portfolio and related supplies included.
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Total Prep for the GED
Our workbook prepares GED test takers both mentally and physically for optimum performance on the GED. Key features include mental preparation activities such as goal setting, visualization and concentration, understanding the directions on the GED and the benefits of following them, test taking tips to help boost GED test performance, activities to help tackle the writing requirements, and much more.
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Skills and Drills for the GED
This practice book contains drills and skills on the most commonly missed areas of the GED. Practice skills include: Writing, Language Arts, Reading, Social Studies, Science and Math.



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