Activity Outline

Activity Name: Routine planning

Objective: To help create a routine that will strengthen punctuality, motivation, and positive
emotions.

Therapeutic Value: Teach youth how to develop a routine, and teach the importance of
routines and their benefits (especially in the mornings).

Age of Participants: 16

Number of Participants: 1

Materials Required

 Agenda or planner
 Pen/pencil/marker
 Primary worker to ensure important dates/activities at the residency are planned into
the youth’s schedule

Description of How to Play or Complete the Activity

1. Youth and primary worker will go to the store and pick out an agenda or planner that the
youth likes
2. Youth and primary worker will go back to residency and write down any events and daily
activities in the planner and then begin to develop a routine for the youth
3. Once a solid routine is developed that the primary worker deems appropriate and the
youth feels comfortable with, it will be written into the agenda/planner
4. Scheduled routine will be followed every day to the best of the youths abilities – slip ups
happen and they will not be noted in any negative way. It is okay if routines cannot be
followed every single day

Evaluation Method to Determine Effectiveness

Monitor punctuality, hygiene, homework completion, etc. Youth are required to “check off”
items in their routine that they complete so we can also use that to evaluate whether it
became easier or not for them to follow their routine

Pitfalls and Precautions

Youth may slip up every once in a while in their routine
Youth may check off parts of their routine that they did not actually complete, in order to
make it look completed
Youth may not want to participate in their routine
When the routine involves school punctuality, they may not want to attend school and may
even refuse