Life Skills - Positive Relationships
Positive social connections with people at all stages in life help ensure healthy development, physically, socially, and emotionally. Our students who are homeless or come from very adverse living environments with little or no parental support generally have no role models or frame of reference for healthy relationships.
In our recent Life Skills Class - Positive Relationships, our Dr. Robin helped students learn to navigate relationships in a positive and healthy manner —being aware of dangerous or toxic behaviors and to always put their physical safety and mental health first.
Dr. Robin taught new students recognize red flags and warnings of potential toxic relationships, including possessiveness, manipulation and guilting. She discussed strategies to empower students to recognize, address and/or remove themselves from this type of behavior directed at them. Dr. Robin further shared methods to enhance students’ relationships, with friends, family and significant others.
One of the key take-homes from this class was the emphasis on self-improvement, encouraging our students to focus on personal growth in order to build the foundation and self-confidence needed to remove themselves from, or foster positive changes in any toxic relationships, as well as to develop new, healthy relationships moving forward.