SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL LEARNING

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Whole Wellbeing

5 Steps to Protecting Our Children

This guide is designed to help adults protect children from sexual abuse by providing simple and practical actions to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to

Better Help

Better help has more than 2,400 articles relating to mental health and awareness-related topics.

Kids Included Together

This site contains resources to help organizations meaningfully include kids with disabilities.

A Nation at Hope

These communication resources will help you effectively engage with multiple audiences about the development of social, emotional, and cognitive skills in children.

Explore SEL

This is designed as a navigator for the field of social and emotional learning. It provides information and tools that summarize and connect the major

4-H

A report about The Emergence of the Positive Youth Development (PYD) Perspective; good information about the 5 C’s of Positive Youth Development Model.

Social-Emotional Learning Through Afterschool

This article highlights strategies to support social and emotional learning in afterschool.

This Time With Feeling

This report by the Aspen Institute describes the connection between College & Career Readiness Standards and Social & Emotional Development.

Class Dojo

Class Dojo has created short videos and activities about growth mindset, perseverance, empathy, and gratitude.

Defending Childhood

This site addresses childhood trauma, particularly witnessing violence, and offers resources to educators to help children.

Mindfulness in Afterschool

Produced by Temescal Associates, this PDF document contains 16 sessions of mindfulness activities in an out-of-school setting.

Centervention

Designed for K-6, these free activities will teach students about impulse control, social initiation, cooperation, empathy, communication, etc.

NASA & 4-H

NASA and 4-H partnered to create Expeditionary Skills, a series of activities designed to help youth prepare for life and work.

Finding Common Ground

This brief talks about the continuum between school-day and afterschool learning in the context of social & emotional learning.

AIM Buddy Project

Media-rich, supplemental curriculum that leverages a cross-grade buddy learning platform to promote social & emotional learning.

Tools for Self-Directed Learning

Six tools that you can teach teenagers to learn in order to better access content and learn efficiently.

Two By Two Character Development

This nonprofit develops character education programs for schools, childcare, families, and your life.

WINGS for Kids

Social and emotional learning curriculum that can be weaved into after school programs.

Parent Toolkit

This SEL toolkit offers resources based on CASEL’s five interrelated sets of competencies.

Walk in My Shoes

Produced by Kansas State College of Education, this documentary describes what life is like for military families and how educators can help these students.

RESOURCES FOR TEACHING SEL

Teach.com rounded up resources for teaching SEL to children living with and without disabilities.

SEEDS Training

World class youth development programs that increase empathy, boost grades, transform school cultures and build lifelong learners.

Morningside Center

Quick and simple lesson plans and activities that help teach and reinforce social emotional skills.

What is Trauma-Informed Care?

This video shares the lifelong impact that trauma can have on health, and how trauma-informed care can create a more welcoming environment.

JOIN THE SEARCHABLE DIRECTORY OF YOUTH PROGRAMS

List your youth program for free on ION’s searchable online database. Families and youth are looking for out-of-school time options now.