Lifeskills Team, 85Z Asheville

Life Skills Program

With the guidance of the Life Skills Program Staff, residents have the opportunity to explore a variety of work and community related activities that are meaningful and necessary to the life of CooperRiis. As both a therapeutic community and as an actual community, the CooperRiis staff-with-resident interaction is integral to our success, as is resident-with-resident interaction. The integration of residents into the work-life of the community is one way of helping them to restore their identity as responsible citizens of the community of which they are a part. In the morning the resident awakens with a sense of purpose knowing that the community needs them, not as a ‘patient’, but as a gardener, a woodworker, an animal caretaker, an artist, a chef, a housekeeper…

Individuals are guided towards roles in a structure that allows them to use their past experiences or gain new skills and training while enhancing their interpersonal and leadership talents, as well as improving their judgment and maturity levels. We also offer tutoring to residents that have not completed their high school education due to illness so they may graduate or obtain their GED.

Partnering with other non-profits in Asheville for Service Learning

85Z Asheville Life Skills Team

Corinne Wulliman