April 9, 2009

Eugene, OR - Northwest Media, parent company of FosterParentCollege.com® and VStreet.com, has published mentor guides for all of its full-length life skills curricula. These free manuals help resource parents and others work one-on-one with a teen through Money Medical: Healthy Money Management, Apartment Hunt, Car Dreams, Private Lives: HIV/STI Education, Options To Anger, and Efficacy: Your Secret Power for Decision Making.

The manuals contain brief summaries of the video lessons, discussion points and suggested activities. While all classes can be taken online without assistance, a mentor-youth team will find the manuals enhance their experience. All manuals are free to VStreet subscribers and are formatted as .pdfs, which can be saved to a computer or printed.

VStreet.com is an online, comprehensive center for learning independent living skills. It contains dynamic, animated, full-length interactive curricula on key topics like managing money, getting and keeping a job, shopping for a used car, finding an apartment, and sexual health. It also contains eZines, an art gallery and poetry corner, soap operas, chats and bulletin boards. VStreet.com is used by schools, social service agencies, and juvenile justice facilities through the USA and Canada. Increasingly, foster parents are using VStreet.com to help teens in their care prepare for aging out of the system.

Annual subscriptions are $24 each; group rates are available. Visit www.vstreet.com for a tour and more information. VStreet.com complies with Job Corps Career Soft Skills Standards & Competencies and Ansell-Casey Life Skills Assessment Domains.

VStreet.com is a division of Northwest Media, Inc. of Eugene, OR. Northwest Media also produces FosterParentCollege.com®, an online foster parent training site, and SocialLearning.com, an online store with over 13,000 products for the social services field.

For more information about this article, contact Lisa Siegle at press@northwestmedia.com.