AHA! believes in a world where every teen can feel safe, seen, and emotionally connected. They equip teenagers and educators with social and emotional intelligence to dismantle apathy, prevent despair, and interrupt hate-based behavior. By inspiring teens and adults to joyfully lead with courage and kindness, AHA! transforms schools and communities into welcoming, nourishing, expressive, and inclusive spaces where youth and adults work together for the highest good.

Modeled after Mikva Challenge’s successful civic engagement programming developed for youth in Chicago, Action Civics CA provides opportunities for young people in Southern California to engage in Action Civics, community problem-solving, and seeks to increase youth voice in local decision-making processes. Through the program youth become more prepared to be leaders in their college, career, and community.

For more than a decade, Alliance for a Healthier Generation has worked with schools, youth-serving organizations, businesses, and communities to empower kids to develop lifelong healthy habits by ensuring the environments that surround them provide and promote good health. Driven by their passion that all young people deserve a chance to live healthier lives, their work has impacted up to 28 million kids across the country.

The Association for Mindfulness in Education is a collaborative association of organizations and individuals working together to provide support for mindfulness training as a component of K-12 education. Mindfulness lays a foundation for education and provides the optimal conditions for learning and teaching. It also supports all pedagogical approaches.

A World Fit for Kids! develops and implements programs which combine healthy behaviors training, mentorship and experiential learning to promote mental, emotional and physical fitness. Their students develop leadership skills and are given the tools needed to succeed in school, work and life.

At Bala Shala Yoga for Kids, they want everyone to grow with mindfulness, self confidence, compassion and creativity. Kids learn that everyone falls and everyone gets back up again. There is no judgement, no competition. There are no winners or losers. Everyone has their own practice and and moves at their own pace. There are lots of smiles, a ton of laughter and an overall feeling of love and respect.

At BASE, Social-Emotional Learning is our business.  We have been practicing the clinical psychology of students and their systems for decades. We teach psycho-social concepts through a supportive and therapeutic dialogue.Our courses are rigorously edited and approved by our panel of field experts which include: Clinical Psychologists, Pediatric Psychiatrists, School Counselors, At-Risk Specialists, Licensed Professional Counselors, Social Workers, Administrators, and Educators.

Be More is committed to teaching youth the importance of self-love and self-respect, and examining the role that social media plays in their lives. By creating a community of support, encouragement, and empowerment, as well as raising awareness and agency surrounding societal expectations of body image, Be More teaches kids how to build each other up and prevent negative conversations and behaviors that often lead to poor body image and eating disorders. Their mission is to get teens out of the world of comparison on social media, and back out into building real-life connection and relationships.

Beyond the Bell ensures that all children and youth in Los Angeles Unified School District have access to high quality, safe, and supervised academic, enrichment, and recreation programs that inspire learning and achievement beyond the regular school day. Every child and youth should have a safe place to be in the presence of a responsible, caring adult with engaging activities that support achievement and promote social, emotional, physical development beyond the regular school day.

Beyond The Classroom is an After School Enrichment Program designed to provide a safe, nurturing environment after school hours to school-aged children, K-5. The space gives children a truly enriching experience as they are given different opportunities to take part in project-based and emergent classes that are increasingly left out of the normal school curriculum. Beyond the Classroom provides a “home away from home.” One that is safe, loving, and nurturing for children. They provide children with an enriching environment that will foster a passion for learning. They foster greater parental awareness of childhood development and help strengthen the community and build partnerships among its members.

The Big EQ/EQuip Our Kids! Campaign intends to be the first-ever mass advertising, marketing and organizing campaign whose sole goal is that every school include in its curriculum the development of students’ and teachers’ social and emotional intelligence and skills. Our Campaign is stepping in to provide what every important social movement that has been successful always generates. That is, a major leading institution that mobilizes the public behind what is so clearly in the public good.

The Bonita Unified School District in San Dimas, CA supports social emotional learning.

Brotherhood Crusade is a 50-year old grassroots organization with a vision of improving quality of life and meeting the unmet needs of low-income, under-served, under-represented and disenfranchised individuals in South Los Angeles. We help people overcome the barriers that deter their pursuit of success in life and facilitate opportunities for a better quality of life by effectuating improved health & wellness, facilitating academic success, promoting personal, social & economic growth, providing access to artistic excellence & cultural awareness, increasing financial literacy and building community agencies & institutions.

Building Bridges is a national initiative working to identify and promote practice and policy that will create strong and closely coordinated partnerships and collaborations between families, youth, community – and residentially – based treatment and service providers, advocates and policy makers to ensure that comprehensive mental health services and supports are available to improve the lives of young people and their families.

Building Connections Behavioral Health (BCBH) increases independence for children with developmental disabilities by providing Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapy.

The award-winning Peace Smarts and Morph America curriculum from Bully Solution has made a positive difference for two million students, teachers, and parents. The 7-step transformational problem-solving and solution finding process includes conflict resolution tools, communication skills, creative expression, community service, embracing diversity, and promoting unity in community.

The Beaumont Unified School District in Beaumont, CA supports social emotional learning.

Californians for Justice is a statewide youth-powered organization fighting to improve the lives of communities of color, immigrant, low-income, LGBTQ and other marginalized communities. When a young person joins Californians for Justice, they unlock the power of their voice and possibilities for the future. Through high school clubs and after-school programming, youth learn how to become community leaders – organizing and activating their peers to take action – and deepen their knowledge on issues like systemic racism, gender and sexuality, and education inequity. Youth leaders partner with their teachers, schools, and policy leaders to forge powerful alliances that advance a youth-centered vision for just, healthy, and vibrant schools. These alliances advance transformative changes throughout the state to create a public education system that prioritizes equity and racial justice. Youth leaders with Californians for Justice are paving the way for generations of young people to realize their full potential. Together, youth leaders and their partners are transforming themselves, their schools, and their communities through their leadership and tireless advocacy for justice.

California State University, Dominguez Hills supports social emotional learning.

Career Dreams Centre supports social emotional learning.

The UCLA Child Anxiety Resilience Education and Support (CARES) Center is an innovative center dedicated to supporting the development of resilient, emotionally healthy children. The Center is also focused on training, research, and community outreach to help clinicians, researchers, school staff, and parents recognize the early signs of childhood anxiety and support families in accessing resources to build family strengths and resilience.

Collaborative Classroom, a nonprofit organization, improves the school experience of children around the globe by providing teachers with engaging curricula and ongoing professional learning that support the academic as well as the social and emotional development of the students we all serve. Their mission is to provide a sustainable, scalable, and affordable way for schools and districts to implement research-supported teaching practices that support teachers with helping students grow as readers, writers, and thinkers as they develop the social and emotional skills necessary to thrive.

Challenge Day is a memorable experiential program that has reached more than 1.5 million youth and adults since 1987. The day-long experience strengthens emotional safety and social relationships, positively influences educational achievement, builds cross cultural connections, and reduces conflict and bullying. Challenge Day has taken place in more than 2,200 schools throughout 48 U.S. states, in 10 countries including much of Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium, and several others. The program has reached more than 1.5 million kids and adults on the ground in schools and communities, and millions more through legendary televised programs.

The Channing Bete Company offers the PATHS program, a comprehensive SEL curriculum that is evidence-based and proven effective. The premier SEL program, the PATHS curriculum is used around the world. It offers a common framework for effective SEL instruction from preschool through kindergarten and the elementary grades. Its convenient grade-level format makes implementation easy and effective. The PATHS program is grounded in the science of children’s brain development, which has determined that children experience and react to strong emotions before developing the cognitive abilities to verbalize them. The PATHS program’s practical, effective strategies have been developed and refined through nearly 30 years of research. Not only has it been included or cited in over 40 published studies and texts, but the PATHS program received the highest possible rating from Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development (Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, University of Colorado). The PATHS program is one of only 17 youth development programs to receive this elite recognition — over 1,500 programs have been reviewed to date.

CharacterStrong is an organization that provides curricula and trainings for schools internationally. Our trainings help educators infuse character and social-emotional learning into the daily fabric of any classroom or campus. Our curricula focus on character development in order to help students cultivate social-emotional skills, their emotional intelligence, and help them develop a stronger identity and purpose in school and in the world.

The original Charter for Compassion was supported by the TED annual prize awarded to Karen Armstrong in 2008. The Charter calls for people to act on it within their sphere of influence. There is great need for a Charter for Compassionate Schools that translates the principle of compassion to the uniqueness of the school world and acts as a rallying cry and unifying vision for schools and educational organizations across the globe.

The Children’s Movement of California® is demonstrating unprecedented support for children’s issues both in numbers and diversity from communities across California. By speaking in one voice on behalf of kids, the Movement is building the pressure necessary to move the needle on children’s health, education, and welfare policies. Children Now takes a whole-child approach, covering the full-range of key children’s issues, from prenatal through age 26, including early childhood development, education, children’s health, childhood trauma and resilience, foster care, and youth justice. This representation allows them to develop sensible policies, because children’s issues are interdependent and can’t be developed effectively in silos. Working across sectors allows them to identify, effective solutions that may not be visible when looking at the problem from one sector’s viewpoint. It also allows them to avoid the fragmentation that often pits single-issue organizations against each other causing strong solutions to be unintentionally derailed.

Choose Love Parenting provides coaching and workshops in Peaceful Parent. Parents gain tools to regulate their own emotions so that they can then treat their children with kindness andr respect. Mindfully connecting with kids teaches social and emotional skills through experience and example.

Our diverse circle of trainers, coaches, and facilitators brings experience from more than 30 years of practice in schools. Headquartered in Southern California, we have program coordinators in the Midwest, Eastern US, Hawaii, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. Specialists focus on special needs, language learners, mindfulness, arts, and movement-based circle modalities. Circle Ways will provide a team to fit the needs of any school at any level.

City Year helps to close gaps in high-need schools by supporting students’ academic and social-emotional development while also providing schools with the additional capacity to enhance school culture and climate. City Year brings together diverse, talented teams of young adults to serve in high-need schools across the country, where they support students, teachers and schools all day, every day. City Year AmeriCorps members build strong, “near-peer” relationships with students and provide academic and social-emotional support, while serving as essential resources to the school to boost student learning and achievement. Through their work in schools and communities, City Year AmeriCorps members not only make a difference in the lives of students they serve, but also acquire valuable skills that prepare them to become the next generation of civically-engaged leaders.

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Since 1979, Committee for Children has advocated for policies to enhance, gathered research to support, and developed educational programs to advance the safety and well-being of children through social-emotional learning (SEL). We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit best known for our innovative social-emotional learning curriculum, Second Step. Our programs blend research and rigor with intuitive design, empowering children with skills to help them realize their goals in the classroom and throughout their lives. We collaborate with experts in the field to share experiences and champion the cause of educating the whole child, advocating for policies and legislation that place importance on creating safe and supportive learning environments. Reaching over 14 million children each year in more than 70 countries worldwide, we lift up children today so they’re able to create a safe and positive society for the future.

Community Circle LA offers character building and social-emotional learning curriculum that is beneficial to all students. Students learn problem solving strategies; develop confidence while fostering respect, empathy, and friendships; and receive support in sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings.

Community Coalition works to help transform the social and economic conditions in South LA that foster addiction, crime, violence and poverty by building a community institution that involves thousands in creating, influencing and changing public policy.

http://www.connectionfromtheheart.com/

Convenient Fun Fitness provides a structured recess program, to make it a positive and productive time for all students. CF Fitness coaches encourages students to become scholars, and kids learn the core values of conflict resolution, respect and integrity. We are changing school cultures by leveraging the power of safe, fun, and healthy play at school every day. They create a place for every kid on the playground to feel included, be active, and build valuable social and emotional skills. Students can become leaders in the Jr. coach program. They help run games and settle disagreements quickly using (rock-paper-scissors) because playing fair and safe is more fun than fighting. CF Fitness mission is to see every child across the United States develop skills through fun fitness routines with a safe structured environment while kids increase their higher level of thinking.

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Courage Campaign fights for a more progressive California and country. 

Powered by 1.4 million members, our proven strategy combines digital tools with grassroots community organizing and powerful messaging. We focus on three priorities:

     1. Economic Justice
     2. Human Rights
     3. Corporate and Political Accountability

We work in California — the largest and most diverse state —  to create models for the country. We are not bound by election cycles. We are a permanent, independent, multi-issue campaign — winning progressive change today, and building power for the future.

With the absence of passage rites to initiate people into this noisy, stressful, and fast changing world, Divon Academy offers programs and tools to help. By drawing upon ancient wisdom, positive psychology and science based personal development programs, we will help you invest in what matters and multiply your prospects for success and wellbeing.

Earth Rights Institute (ERI) is designed to be an equilateral knowledge platform, where local people collaborate with academics and development professionals, both local and foreign, by exchanging skills, experiences, and knowledge to solve crucial development issues such as widespread poverty, land right disputes and environmental degradation. Earth Rights Institute (ERI) takes an innovative approach to join education, advocacy and research in building ecologically, economically and culturally sustainable communities in some of the world’s poorest communities. ERI advocates a model of development that supports the re-localization of development expertise. We believe that in order to empower communities to manage and direct their own development, strategies and expert knowledge must be conceived locally. We are affiliated with the IU as a United Nations NGO (Non-Governmental Organization).

EduCare After-School Program understands that low self-esteem, doubt, fear, and uncertainty can often be the greatest barriers to a student’s achievement, they encourage students to believe in themselves, and provide them with the tools they need to succeed. Their after-school programs are designed to give students the opportunity to develop their unique abilities, build relationships and find relevance in their educational experience. Their activities are unique to each school and include homework assistance & tutoring, academic enrichment, structured fitness classes and performing & fine arts activities. EduCare goes far beyond simply providing a safe space for students after school, offering many opportunities for learning and leadership.

Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC) is a membership organization dedicated to elevating the leadership, voices and influence of people of color in education and to leading more inclusive efforts to improve education. EdLoC aims to break through the polarizing divides that have consumed efforts to improve public education.  Only by forging a third way  can we stem the backlash facing even the most innovative, effective solutions and forge the alliances needed to realize and sustain EdLoC’s vision of providing low-income children of color expansive and substantive opportunities for the highest levels of academic and economic attainment.

The Emotional Literacy Foundation teaches people of all ages how to develop their emotional intelligence, so that we can use the power of emotions to create a more effective and compassionate society. We partner with school organizations, large and small, to foster the Emotional Literacy of all students and adults in that community.

The Ellen Ochoa Learning Center, part of the Los Angeles Unified School District, supports social emotional learning.

Ellie Tabibian coaches professionals in the healthcare industry and college students to leverage their unique talent themes to reach their professional goals with clarity and productivity.

EQ Schools provides emotional intelligence training to organizations and schools. Their workshops lead participants to gain creative confidence, to improve their self-regulation and management, to collaborate with others more effectively and to feel happier. They deliver various training programs: Workshops, TEDx Talks, Keynote Presentations, and Mastery Courses. Every training addresses employee well-being, mindfulness, and leadership tactics so you can empower your business, your employees, and yourself.

Every Monday Matters is a not-for-profit organization commetted to helping individuals and organizations understand how much and why they matter–to themselves, the community, and the world. Learn more about our free and low-cost, standards-aligned, flexible, and hands-on Social and Emotional Learning programs for students in grades
K-12.

Fontana Unified School District, in Fontana, CA, supports social emotional learning.

Fresno Unified School District, in Fresno, CA, supports social emotional learning.

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Gryffin Media supports social emotional learning.

Hansra Consulting and Advisory Services offers nonprofits services in the areas of visioning and strategy, professional learning, curriculum design, and evaluation. We started as a small educational consulting, sole proprietorship in 2013 aimed at helping the nonprofit sector to enhance their curricular offerings to their participants, and to consider how data and research can assist in operational and programmatic effectiveness.

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Dr. Nelly Farnoody-Zahiri is a keynote speaker and a world-renowned clinical psychologist who specializes in working with children and families. Her expertise are in the area of Mindfulness, Eastern & Western Integration, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Attachment Parenting, Conscious & Peace Learning Parenting…she’s the author and founder of the International Center For Peace Learning Parenting and the popular MomTalk LA TV Show at Andisheh TV.

The team at IQSonics develops Sing and Speak 4 Kids, a music-based computer program for children with delayed language development (including autism) to learn how to speak, based on a clinically tested music therapy technique that has shown great promise as a complement to standard speech therapy. We’re bringing sound and neuroscience together for health, education, and fun.

Jasmyne Boswell has been very involved with the Ojai Foundation and am a certified training of circle work. She also pioneered the program for schools in Boulder, Colorado, enlisting principals, schools and teachers in the Way of Council.

Juan Cabrillo School, in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, supports social emotional learning.

Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization with a mission to ensure that every child has access to Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in their classrooms and to help facilitate this teaching within their families, schools and communities. We do this in honor of Jesse and to spread the message he left on his family’s kitchen chalkboard shortly before he died – “Nurturing, Healing Love.”

Kate MacKinnon is a contributor to Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement and an ambassador for the program.

At Kids’ Own Wisdom, we are inspired by children’s natural-born ability to constructively and collaboratively resolve their own challenges. We are motivated by the world’s serious need for them to fully develop and stabilize those natural-born abilities as soon as possible.

LA’s BEST engages children creatively, emotionally, intellectually and physically, empowering them to explore and discover the opportunities in their lives. We inspire and prepare children to create lives full of choices. Our programmatic partners help launch new initiatives that are aligned with our shared values and goals, provide support for ongoing activities and facilitate pilot projects that can scale nationally.

LAUSD Parent, Community and Student Services supports social emotional learning.

Founded in 1976, Lesson One provides professional development that helps public, private and charter schools establish and design themselves for successful School Cultural Development Ecosystem. We integrate social & academic skills through our evidence-based practice for mental health. The ecosystem provides a process to help teachers, administrators, and parents seamlessly integrate initiatives including PBIS, Restorative Justice, common core, STEAM, RtI, etc.

Lost Souls Ranch supports veterans with PTSD, community for our kids, military families, and more.