Life Skills 3.0 

2022-23 School Year

2022-23 school year

 Life Skills Advisors

June 2022

Work Group

This group was formed by STYC members. They continued the work of previous members. In previous proposals the term Counselor was used. Now we believe that Advisor best captures our purpose for safe and healthy public schools. 


Our contribution is continuation and a call for life skills advisors in public schools.

Javier Gonzalez

Harlingen HS

Senior 2022-23 school year.


Former STYC member. Now an alum.


On May 11th, HB 3898 in the 88th Texas legislature ended at midnight—it was on the calendar for a 2nd reading but as many other bills it was not called before the midnight deadline. LiSA continues.

Ashley Trejo

Rivera HS—Brownsville

Senior 2023-24 school year.


STYC member.


Jesse James Guerra

Harlingen HS

Senior 2023-24 school year.


STYC member.


out take podcast practice 

Ana Ximena Sosa


Special Guest

J.M. Lozano

State Representative District 43.

Recorded Aug. ’22.

The gift one generation gives the next.

Clip from podcast with Santiago Carbajal, former STYC member and a student at Northeastern University in Boston.

The beginning

Life Skills 1.0

Karina Alanis     Jaylyn Treviño      Jazmin Hinojosa

We met at a convenience store near La Grulla High School a few days before the start of 2018-19 school year.


Written at the moment by Karina during the visit in which the term Life Skills Counselor emerged.

About the name Life Skills 

Life Skills 2.0

Recorded April 14, 2021.

Special Message for House and Senate Education Committee Members. 

The gift one generation gives the next.

Recorded May 15, 2021.

The gift one generation gives the next.

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