Center for Mental Health Promotion
Integration of Social Emotional Learning:
Daycare through secondary education settings
GOAL: Make child daycare/ early education more accessible and affordable with better trained staff
What’s needed:
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Increase awareness of administrators, policy makers, corporate CEOs of the importance
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increase funding to enhance daycare staff and teacher training (with credentialing)
Relevant Articles;
The Right Is Attacking Social-Emotional Learning. What Exactly Is It?
from HuffPost
Integrating children’s mental health into primary care
Lawrence S Wissow, Nadja van Ginneken, [...], and Atif Rahman
from the American Academy of Pediatrics
Pediatricians a link between children, programs that boost school readiness
The Academy has updated the 2008 technical report School Readiness, outlining the role of primary care practices in supporting healthy development of young children so they are ready to learn. The report, from the Council on Early Childhood and Council on School Health, is available at
Integration of Social-Emotional Learning in schools
What’s needed:
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Increase awareness of administrators and policy makers of the importance of this
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increase funding for teacher education to make this viable (with relevant credentialing)
Relevant Sites:
The CASEL Guide to Schoolwide SEL leads school-based teams through a process for systemic SEL implementation
School-Family Partnership Strategies to Enhance Children’s Social, Emotional, and Academic Growth
Edutopia The Reparative Power of Relationships
Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety