The 3-week course will enroll approximately 120 teachers and counselors.

The course seeks to provide supervisors with the skills required to interact with adults and how to influence them, as well as to detect preferences of each character so that supervisors will be able to modify students’ behavior in secondary school in order to help them positively contribute to their communities.

Saad Al-Qarni, LSC’s supervisor and director of a training department at the Ministry of Education branch in Jeddah, said the efficiency of supervisors would help the LSC achieve its goals. Al-Qarni added that the club is being launched in 40 schools for the current year through a partnership between the branches of the Ministry of Education and ALJ Community Initiatives. Mohammed Yahya Hakami, senior director of programs’ development in Bab Rizq Jameel stressed the importance of LSC, saying it is one of the valuable educational initiatives that effectively contribute in developing behavioral skills of secondary school students.

During 2011, LSC seeks to attract almost 2,000 students in Jeddah, Taif and Ola.

Since its inception in 2007, the Life Skills Club has benefited more than 5,000 students in more than 40 schools.