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Gratitude Is a Survival Skill

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Families Building Communities of Compassion

Camp Kindness Counts

Redmond, WA, United States

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

Growing Gratitude and Generosity

Collaborative for Educational Services

Northampton, MA, United States

Growing Gratitude and Generosity

Growing Gratitude and Generosity (G3) is a program designed to help parents encourage and support their children to understand, feel, and express the positive values of gratitude and generosity in their daily lives.

Website: http://collaborative.org/g-3

Strengths: Generosity  and Gratitude

Igniting the Power of Families to Support Prosocial Skill Development through a Texting Program

Family Engagement Lab

San Francisco, CA, United States

Igniting the Power of Families to Support Prosocial Skill Development through a Texting Program

The current program expands upon our evidence-based, text message program for schools, FASTalk (Families and Schools Talk), to allow families and children to develop and practice literacy skills within the context of developing key prosocial skills.

Website: http://www.familyengagementlab.org/

Strengths: Forgiveness,  Generosity,  Gratitude,  Honesty,  Love,  and Reliability

Fatherhood & Co-parenting: Beyond Conflict

Family Paths, Inc.

Oakland, CA, United States

Fatherhood & Co-parenting: Beyond Conflict

Fatherhood and Co-parenting: Beyond Conflict is a six-week workshop series. Guided by the principles of empathy, gratitude, reliability, and purpose, the curriculum is designed to build confidence and enhance dads’ co-parenting experience.

Website: https://familypaths.org/parenting/parenting-classes/

Strengths: Gratitude,  Purpose,  and Reliability

Like a Sponge Podcast | DIY Family Engagement Lecture Series

GreatSchools

Oakland, CA, USA

Like a Sponge Podcast | DIY Family Engagement Lecture Series

Season two of GreatSchools’ podcast Like a Sponge is all about the science of teaching kids character. An accompanying series of free family engagement presentations offers any school, district, or parent organization the ability to give talks that will educate and spark conversations about the big issues that really matter when it comes to raising the next generation.

Website: https://www.greatschools.org/gk/family-engagment-talks-presentations/

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

Mindful Parenting Program Families

Kaveri Group of Institutes

Pune, Maharashtra, India

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

Santa Fe, NM, United States

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

Senders Pediatrics

Cleveland, OH, United States

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

Social-Emotional Learning Parent Seminars

United Schools of Indianapolis

Indianapolis, IN, United States

Social-Emotional Learning Parent Seminars

United Schools of Indianapolis is expanding a social-emotional learning student curriculum to the parents of its scholars through parenting seminars.

Website: http://avondalemeadowsacademy.com/

Strengths: Generosity,  Gratitude,  and Purpose

Positive Parenting Community at University Village

University Village, UC Berkeley

Albany, CA, United States

Positive Parenting Community at University Village

Positive Parenting Community at University Village supports student parents with positive parenting and character development in their children with activities and events led by Parent Ambassadors.

Website: https://housing.berkeley.edu/universityvillage

Strengths: Forgiveness,  Generosity,  Gratitude,  and Love

Keep Connected for Faith and Life

Vibrant Faith | Search Institute

MN, NC, CT, United States

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

Greater Good Parenting Guide

Compassion

Compassion:

Noticing and feeling motivated to help relieve suffering.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness:

Freely choosing to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed us, giving up the desire or power to punish.

Generosity

Generosity:

Not simply giving but giving more than is expected in a situation, incurring a cost to promote someone else’s welfare.

Choose another strength!

Honesty

Honesty:

Behaving or expressing yourself in a way that is fair, free of deceit, and morally correct.

Humility

Humility:

Being able to see and accept one’s own strengths and limitations without defensiveness or judgment.

Love

Love:

Serving others without expectation of reward or repayment, not limited to romantic relationships.

Purpose

Purpose:

Intending to do something that feels personally meaningful and is also directed toward improving the lives of others.

Reliability

Reliability:

Being consistently good in quality or performance; behaving responsibly, by actually doing what we pledge to do.

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