How can we teach our students the importance of supportive relationships? How can we help them identify supportive adults in their life who can provide advice and encouragement? Being able to ask for help is an important skill that we can teach our students. One of the ways to teach our students how to ask for help is to help them identify the people in their life that can help them. The purpose of this exercise is to guide students through a series of situations where they identify an adult who can be their advocate.
Rethink Mental Health
Rethink Mental Health is a non-profit organization that developed and distributes the H.E.A.R.T. social-emotional curriculum for schools. H.E.A.R.T. is a social-emotional learning (SEL) program geared towards improving the way adolescents between the ages of 10 and 15 treat others and themselves. As a result of participating in the H.E.A.R.T. program, schools can create a more empathetic, responsible and emotionally resilient generation of youth while effectively reducing bullying and creating a culture of safety, health and wellness at the school and beyond.
