| By: Katherine Seibel What’s Going Right for Kids’ Well-Being When a Lot Feels Wrong It can be easy to feel discouraged about the state of youth mental health in the US. Families and educators share concerns about youth mental health, and agree that additional support is needed for students. Federal and state lawmakers are responding to support young people.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: Committee for Children Federal Funding for SEL Now Available: March 2021 Committee for Children works with policymakers from around the country and supports laws, policies, and funding that promote social-emotional learning (SEL), address bullying, and prevent child sexual abuse. 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
| By: Jordan Posamentier Supporting Racial Equity with Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and SEL Throughout history, race equity has been an issue intertwined in our education system in a multitude of ways. In this blog, our policy experts answer questions relating to culturally responsive teaching and racial equity. Read More