Children
"I like being able to give my opinion openly without feeling judged, even if it is not the same opinion as others".
Parents
"Congratulations! This program will help many children understand their feelings and how they manifest in their body to better deal with stress."
Teachers and Professionals
"The turnkey aspect of the program is exceptional and makes it easy to deliver."
School Administrator
"There is now a climate of trust in and out of class, the children were respectful of others during the sessions."
Highlighting children’s strengths
Passport: Skills for Life is one of the few programmes that develop children’s coping skills. A coping strategy can be used when we experience a new or difficult situation, such as conflict with a friend, jealousy, changing school, and stress before an exam.
People who have a wide range of coping strategies have fewer negative experiences, in the short and long term, when they experience difficulties or stressful life situations. In addition, by developing coping strategies early in life, children build a foundation to effectively use coping skills throughout adolescence and adulthood.
Children learn to identify and evaluate coping strategies on their own, based on two rules:
Examples of strategies children use include:
- Confiding in an adult.
- Finding a quiet place to calm down.
- Petting an animal.
- Listening to music.
- Asking for help.
- Expressing their feelings.
Passport: Skills for Life also helps children develop their social skills, particularly identifying, expressing and regulating their emotions, solving conflicts and managing stress. Learning social and emotional skills allows them to take action as soon as difficulties arise. These skills are closely tied to improved academic behaviours and a better classroom atmosphere and often lead to reduced school violence.
Passport: Skills for Life provides children tools that will help them throughout their lives!
- Enhance children’s inventory of coping strategies
- Improve social skills, including emotional expression and regulation, conflict resolution and stress management
- Encourage cooperation and mutual support
- Stimulate critical judgment
- Promote emotional well-being
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Relationships And Helping Each Other To identify how to make friends and increase coping skills for dealing with problems that can occur in relationships with others. |
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Difficult Situations To identify and use coping skills that will create positive outcomes for ourselves and others in difficult situations. |
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Fairness, Justice And What Is Right To identify our emotions in unfair and unjust situations, as well as coping skills for dealing with them. |
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Change And Loss To identify our emotions when dealing with change and loss, and finding coping skills to use in these situations. |
We Can All Do Something
Big or small, your donation makes it possible to train and provide kits to teachers and school professionals so they can run the program across Canadian primary schools. Your generosity will also boost our children’s social and emotional well-being!