| By: Jordan Posamentier Adding School Mental Health Professionals Alone Will Not Resolve the Youth Mental Health Crisis Learn why teaching life skills can help to build protective factors that can help all kids to be safe, ready to learn, and able to thrive.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Gamer Girls Create the World This March, Committee for Children is celebrating Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day with a series of reflections from our Executive Leadership Team on their career journeys, the women who’ve shaped them along the way, and how they’re working to break biases. This post is from VP of Policy & Advocacy Jordan Posamentier.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Empowering SEL Through Policy and Advocacy As schools navigate evolving COVID-19 regulations and transition from distance learning to in-person classrooms, social-emotional learning (SEL) is critical to the monumental task of rebuilding community and social support systems that are inclusRead More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Upstander Advocacy In this blog, learn how you can help prevent bullying by promoting cultural responsive pedagogy.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Advocating for Child Protection Our policy and advocacy team has stepped up our efforts to elevate the voices of those who share our commitment to protecting kids. See what they’ve been up to.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Identity and Belonging: Anti-Racist Curriculum and Black Studies in Schools Each month, our policy experts will answer questions relating to these priority areas and racial equity. Our final blog in this series will discuss anti-racist curricula and Black studies, and how SEL can help promote and be strengthened by research-based practices that advance racial equity in education.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Protecting Children from Sex Trafficking: A Conversation with Kelly Mangiaracina, JD This blog post discusses sensitive topics, including child sexual abuse and child sex trafficking January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Committee for Children was founded to help the victiRead More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Advocating SEL in a Tumultuous Year: Our 2020 Highlights Throughout the turmoil and unrest of 2020, Committee for Children’s Policy and Advocacy Team has advocated at the state and federal levels to promote the well-being of young people across our country. Here are some highlights from our advocacy work this year.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Why Does SEL Matter in Promoting Educator Diversity? In this blog, our policy experts answer questions about the importance of teacher diversity and the role SEL has to play in promoting it.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier The Role Policy Plays in Understanding Race-Based Bullying In support of National Bullying Prevention Month and this year’s Captain Compassion® campaign to prevent racially motivated bullying, our policy experts look at how we can improve the framework to address, understand, and prevent racially motivated bullying.Read More