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What is the life skills learning center? |
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Life Skills offers a program that focuses on stopping domestic violence by bringing the perpetrator to accountability and providing skills for both the victim and perpetrator to break the cycle of abuse. Adults attend weekly classes where they are taught valuable life-changing skills through the Learning to Live, Learning to Love, curriculum. The focus is on spouse abuse with the goal of reconciliation. Types of abuse are identified as well as the unacceptable behavior in the family. Thus, bringing change through understanding root issues. Students also learn about family issues of childhood trauma that have become the root of anger and abuse. |
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What is the basis of the life skills curriculum? |
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The curriculum helps adults gain life-changing skills in communication, bonding commitment making, stress management, forgiveness, trust, and accepting responsibility. Skills are also taught in processing feelings of hurt, anger, quilt, shame, and bitterness. The curriculum is presented weekly with separate groups for men and women. |
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What is a life skills affiliate? |
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An affiliate is an existing professional practice such as a Psychologist, Psychiatrist, or Church that has been granted a license to operate a Life Skills Learning Center and utilize the Learning to Live, Learning to Love curriculum. |
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Why does our community need a learning center? |
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Spouse abuse is a serious crime that involves over fifty percent of the population in America today. There is no place to turn for help in most communities. Few are able to offer help and hope to the victim, let alone the perpetrator. Those who do attend learn the reasons for their anger, how to release anger, and learn new behaviors. Even if there are places for either the victim or the perpetrator to go for help, the Learning to Live, Learning to Love curriculum is designed to deal with root issues of behavior, not merely behavior modification. |
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How serious is the problem of spouse abuse? |
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Domestic violence, spouse abuse, and battering, all describe extreme turmoil in the home. These terms are not limited to physical beatings alone. Abuse includes: verbal, sexual, emotional, economical, stalking, religious, and silence, to name a few. |
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What kind of people will we be working with? |
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Most of the clientele are desperate hurting people. Despite comfortable stereotypes, perpetrators and victims are hardly limited to the uneducated or disadvantaged. Spouse abuse torments families across the board, from larger metro areas, to small rural communities. No segment of society is exempt. Not only are the hurting families helped, but many healthy families are enriched. |
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