Lifeskills Link is a system of collaboration and accountability. It provides intelligent insights into each students experience which informs targeted intervention and cognitive-behavioral skill development. The curriculum is built on our evidence-based model of cognitive behavior therapy together with our unique self-directed learning approach which has proven to help students and clients overcome self-defeating thoughts and behaviors.
Curriculum
Whether the student is taking a course online or offline, they will be engaged and challenged to see their current challenges from new perspectives and be facilitated to take ownership over the quality of their thoughts.
Coaches
Students learn, grow and change best in the presence of those they trust and have a positive relationship with. Utilizing a pro-social coach provides additional support and accountability for students. Most importantly, coaches help to fulfill their students' emotional hierarchy of needs.
Admin Users
The Lifeskills Link platform empowers behavioral change professionals with intuitive data and insights about their student’s cognitive and behavioral skill development which enhances their intervention capacity
The combination of (1) lifeskillslink.com (2) evidence-based cognitive curriculum (3) addressing criminogenic needs (4) the self-directed learning format, and (5) assisting users in becoming more change agent oriented has proven to be a powerful deterrent against crime. ACCI leads the nation with a consistent 20% to 30% reduction in recidivism rates regardless of how, where, or what socioeconomic peoples are referred. This has had a positive result in participant compliance, responsibility, and a willingness to complete other responsibilities.
Lifeskills Link is a system of collaboration and accountability. It provides intelligent insights into each students experience which informs targeted intervention and cognitive-behavioral skill development. The curriculum is built on our evidence-based model of cognitive behavior therapy together with our unique self-directed learning approach which has proven to help students and clients overcome self-defeating thoughts and behaviors.
Curriculum
Whether the student is taking a course online or offline, they will be engaged and challenged to see their current challenges from new perspectives and be facilitated to take ownership over the quality of their thoughts.
Coaches
Students learn, grow and change best in the presence of those they trust and have a positive relationship with. Utilizing a pro-social coach provides additional support and accountability for students. Most importantly, coaches help to fulfill their students' emotional hierarchy of needs.
Admin Users
The Lifeskills Link platform empowers behavioral change professionals with intuitive data and insights about their student’s cognitive and behavioral skill development which enhances their intervention capacity
The combination of (1) lifeskillslink.com (2) evidence-based cognitive curriculum (3) addressing criminogenic needs (4) the self-directed learning format, and (5) assisting users in becoming more change agent oriented has proven to be a powerful deterrent against crime. ACCI leads the nation with a consistent 20% to 30% reduction in recidivism rates regardless of how, where, or what socioeconomic peoples are referred. This has had a positive result in participant compliance, responsibility, and a willingness to complete other responsibilities.
Why ACCI?
Experience
We have been fine tuning both our approach and our curriculum for over 43 years. Yes, the world is changing rapidly, but human nature is not.
Curriculum
Our ranges of material includes Adult, Juvenile, and Youth Protection self-directed courses, as well as Group facilitated and Training courses.
Program Options
Correctional Facilities
Lifeskills Link
Self-Directed In-house
Group Facilitation
Training Programs
Affiliate Program
Evidence Based
American Community Corrections Institute regularly conducts evidence-based research and reports with many state and county agencies to ensure the efficacy of our cognitive restructuring model and programs.
Lifeskills Link Features
Coaching
Course Comments
Text Notifications
Email Reminders
Mobile-friendly
User-friendly
Analytics
Smart Dashboard
Single-Sign On
API
Autosave
Features
Coaching
Prosocial mentors or coaches are included in the program to assist with, support, learning and positive relationship building. We believe that learning, changing and growing takes place in the context of a healthy relationship
Course Comments
Admin users can leave comments for the students typed in responses. Comments can be either validating or redirecting.
Text Notifications
Communicating with students via text messages increases accountability and engagement.
Email Reminders
Students, Coaches and Admin Users stayed engaged throughout the program by receiving timely reminders and notifications.
Mobile-friendly
The Lifeskills Link course player has been designed for the mobile user in mind. Students can use their device of choice to complete a course.
User-friendly
Our intuitive and simplistic user interface helps admin users and students focus on what is most important.
Analytics
We are collecting key data points without compromising privacy which informs our continuous improvement efforts.
Smart Dashboard
Admin users have actionable data on their dashboards that calls them to action and can build on the student learning and intervention. We are highlighting the student experience for the admin user to integrate into their follow up work with each student.
Single-Sign On
Students and Admin Users can log into their Lifeskills Link account from other supported web based applications. SSO significantly increases user engagement and makes accessing the program much easier.
API
The Lifeskills Link platform can work in the background and be integrated into any primary software that your organization is using. Student enrollment and tracking can all happen from within your main software system.
Autosave
The Lifeskills Link LMS (Learning Management System) is saving student responses as they move from one page to the next. Nobody’s hard work will be lost.
Dictionary Words
For students, difficult words are highlighted and provide definitions, examples of how the word is used, and an audio to hear the word spoken.
Native Apps
Students can choose to use a native app to take and complete a course.
Text-To-Speech
Students can choose to have the entire course read to them, or have no audio at all.
Language
Students can select different languages and accents.
Completion Certificates
Students who successfully complete a course, are provided a certificate.
Referral Codes
Each Admin User can use a referral code to expedite the enrollment process for their clients.
Support
We provide How-To-Videos and several support channels to all users.
Meta User
For customers that are managing several locations and accounts, we provide a single login and key data points
