Independent Living Program - Florida's Center for Child Welfare

• Expectations: Also known as objectives or performance indicators, they are guidelines to achieve Learning Goals that may beused as group session learning objectives or individual case planning goal indicators.• Learning Levels: Degree to which individuals master Learning Goals.• Resources: Broad array of teaching materials and people resources (e.g., curricula, websites, workbooks) that can be used toteach to a Learning Goal.• Curriculum: A set of activities that lead to mastery of Learning Goals in one or more skill areas.• Life Skill Learning Plan: An online template that guides the user to determine the essential elements for the development of a lifeskill curriculum, one session at a time, or an individual learning plan based on selected Learning Goals and related Expectations.The template is used to record selected Learning Goals and activities the instructor will use during the life skill learning session.Completed, it is a unit of planned life skill instruction, which may be completed one-on-one or in a group.• Life Skill Instructor: Individual who guides the learner and supports the individual throughout their Learning Plan.• Out-of-home care: Refers to a living situation that is not with a person’s immediate biological family, such as, family foster care,group homes, and residential treatment.• Learner: Youth or adult that is learning life skills content in group, individual, or self-instruction formats.*The same terms are used in ACLSA.Developmental ProgressionThe Ansell-Casey Life Skills Assessment (ACLSA) consists of four developmental levels. The Guidebook is intended to match thosedevelopmental levels: ACLSA-I (ages 8-9), ACLSA-II (ages 10-12), ACLSA-III (ages 13-15), and ACSLA-IV (ages 16 and older).All the Learning Goals for a skill area are listed together because people do not necessarily learn skills in a chronological sequence.For example, an older youth may have missed learning a skill that his/her peers learned at an earlier age. This is particularly true foryouth living in out-of-home care who have experienced multiple placements and interruptions in their education. The Learning GoalsLife Skills Guidebook 16©2004 by Casey Family Programs.