Greater Good Parenting

Families Building Communities of Compassion

Camp Kindness Counts believes in the power of kindness and provides opportunities for families to practice and nurture character strengths such as forgiveness, generosity, and compassion in their daily lives. Support is provided through Family Service Events, camps, parenting workshops, and resource pages on their website. Their Kind World Explorers initiative provides research-based activity guidebooks and enrichment opportunities for families globally as both a tool for character development and community-building.

Website: https://www.campkindnesscounts.org/kind-world

Strengths: Compassion,  Forgiveness,  Generosity,  Gratitude,  Honesty,  Humility,  Love,  Purpose,  and Reliability

Cultivating Compassion in Our Kids and Ourselves: A New Jewish Parenting Program

Cultivating Compassion in Our Kids and Ourselves: A New Jewish Parenting Program aims to introduce parents to a uniquely Jewish perspective on raising compassionate children, and to explore how it closely parallels the newest research in neuroscience about the foundations of ethical behavior.

Website: https://www.adatreyim.org/

Strengths: Compassion 

Mindful Parenting Program Families

The Mindful Parenting Program, initiated at the Kaveri Group of Institutes, aims to build a sustainable, easily replicable, experiential approach to Parenting Education that encourages introspection. It fosters the overall well-being of parents, open dialogue, and closer parent-child and parent-school relationships. It promotes volunteerism and community service among parents and children and fosters a more compassionate society.

Website: https://mindfulparentingindia.com

Strengths: Compassion,  Generosity,  Gratitude,  and Purpose

Criando Niños Valientes y Cariñosos

Pinyon Foundation has teamed up with Hispanic Communications Network to develop resources and materials in Spanish to empower parents and caregivers to teach children character strengths.

Website: https://www.laredhispana.org/actualidades/cmo-criar-nios-valientes-y-cariosos

Strengths: Compassion,  Forgiveness,  Generosity,  Gratitude,  Honesty,  Humility,  Love,  Purpose,  and Reliability

Bee the Change

Bee the Change is designed to optimize children’s health and well-being by inspiring parents to create a family culture that promotes prosocial behavior and character development in both children and parents by instituting the following programs: A Community-wide Family Kindness Day, a family read-out loud program called One Book-One Practice, Bee K.I.N.D. (Kid Initiated Nice Deeds) Youth Challenge Grants, and Bee the ChAnGE age appropriate prosocial behavior cards.

Website: https://www.senderspediatrics.com

Strengths: Compassion,  Generosity,  Gratitude,  and Purpose

Keep Connected for Faith and Life

Keep Connected for Faith and Life allows Christian Churches to pilot a faith-based version of Search Institute’s Keep Connected Curriculum with Junior High Youth and their families.

Website: https://keepconnected.searchinstitute.org/

Strengths: Compassion,  Forgiveness,  Gratitude,  Love,  and Purpose