The NDSU Extension Service’s Center for 4-H Youth Development is collaborating with the NDSU President’s Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs, Region V Children’s Services Coordinating Committee, Fargo and West Fargo public schools and North Dakota Higher Education Consortium for Substance Abuse Prevention to offer a program to help students and their parents plan for a smooth transition from high school to college.
The program, called “Are You Ready? The College Transition,” focuses on solutions for preventing problems during post-high school education. It will help high school seniors and their parents understand and manage normal conflicts resulting from the high school-to-college transition, increase their communication skills and create a plan for the student to use when faced with these conflicts or issues. The program’s coordinators hope to offer the program at 10 sites across North Dakota during the 2009-10 academic year.
High school seniors and their parents will attend three sessions during the program, which the University of Wisconsin Extension Service created.
Topics the facilitators will cover include best practices for academic success, financial planning, staying connected and letting go, making new friends while keeping old friends, getting along with roommates, dating, values, diversity, making healthy choices, stress, personal safety and alcohol and drugs.