Healthy Child Manitoba

Life Skills Training (LST)

In 2009/10 Healthy Child Manitoba, in partnership with Manitoba Justice and Manitoba Education, launched a pilot of the Life Skills Training (LST) program.

Developed by Dr. Gilbert Botvin (Cornell University) LST is an evidence-based prevention program targeting social and psychological factors that cause youth to initiate high risk behaviours, including substance abuse and violence. LST focuses on teaching children how to make healthy choices throughout their lives by improving self-management skills, general social skills and self esteem, and drug resistance skills.

The pilot was launched in 30 grade three classrooms across the province. These schools are participating in an evaluation to determine the effectiveness of LST in Manitoba.  The evaluation results will be shared with participating stakeholders in late 2011.

For more information:
http://www.gov.mb.ca/healthyschools/conference/paterson.pdf
http://www.lifeskillstraining.com