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The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln
READY4LIFE is a skills based program designed to help high school students prepare for life beyond the classroom. Brought to Northwest Indiana by PATH, Inc., READY4LIFE equips students with practical tools to support healthy relationships, confident decision-making, and long-term success.
Through interactive lessons, activities, and guided discussion, students build essential life skills such as communication, stress management, goal setting, and relationship health. READY4LIFE also supports future planning with career exploration, job readiness, and financial skill development, helping students feel prepared for what comes next.
This program goes beyond traditional lectures by creating space for real conversations and meaningful learning. READY4LIFE empowers students to take ownership of their choices, strengthen their confidence, and build a foundation for a healthy, successful future.
READY4LIFE Lessons
Session 1: Relationships Today
Session 2: Knowing Yourself
Session 3: Dynamics of a Relationship
Session 4: Dangerous Love
Session 5: Decide, Don’t Slide (Pathways & Sequences Toward Success)
Session 6: Success Sequence
Session 7: Communication & Healthy Relationships
Session 8: Communication Challenges & More Skills
Session 9: Through the Eyes of a Child
Session 10: Money Habitudes
Session 11: Money Habitudes
Session 12: Money Habitudes
Session 13: Planning for Success – Program Wrap-Up
Program FAQs
READY4LIFE is designed for high school students and is delivered in partnership with schools across Northwest Indiana. The program supports students as they build essential life, relationship, and career-readiness skills during a key transition period in their lives.
READY4LIFE is delivered during the school day through interactive, skills-based classroom sessions and workshops. Programming is designed to complement academic instruction while supporting students’ social, emotional, and future-planning needs.
READY4LIFE focuses on practical, real-world skills students can apply immediately and in the future. Topics include communication and relationship skills, stress management, decision-making, goal setting, career exploration, job readiness, and financial skills.
READY4LIFE goes beyond lectures by emphasizing real conversations, interactive learning, and skill-building activities. Students are encouraged to reflect, participate, and apply what they learn to their everyday lives—helping build confidence, independence, and readiness for adulthood.
Yes. Students may request additional support or services through a referral process. PATH works to connect students with appropriate resources based on individual needs.
Schools interested in offering READY4LIFE can partner with PATH to implement programming that supports student success, positive youth development, and postsecondary readiness. PATH works collaboratively with schools to tailor delivery and support student needs.
Yes. READY4LIFE is built using evidence-informed, skills-based approaches that support positive youth development and healthy decision-making.