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Australia
Do you live in the ACT? The Emotional LIteracy Forum (ELF) has been set up in Canberra. Details of their program and contact details here.
Put Children First - the organisation set up by Australian of the Year, Professor Fiona Stanley: "This is the most important issue facing our country. Investing in our children is an investment in all our futures" - Fiona Stanley
The Victorian Centre for Mental Health and Social Wellbeing. This is attached to Melbourne University. You can sign up to receive regular newsletters
Families Australia is an organisation funded by the Department of Families and Community Services to work collaboratively with others for the wellbeing of families. It is concerned with advocacy, policy and the quality of service delivery. You can read or download the May 2006 Forum Report "Work, Families and Wellbeing" here.
Response Ability - resources for teacher education and mental health - information to support use of the Response Ability resources in Australian universities, in Secondary Education or Journalism - based at the Hunter Institute for Mental Health. Their publication Education Connect contains occasional papers about social and emotional wellbeing in education.
Mind Matters - resource and professional development program to support Australian sceondary schools in promoting the social and emotional wellbeing of members of school communities
Kidsmatter is the primary school version. You can download an overview of the program by going into the linked site.
National Investment for the Early Years (NIFTEY) has a very useful (and courtesy of Graham Vimpani a very active) email list for all information related to early childhood research,events and policy.
The Bullying. No way! project is developed and managed by all participating Australian education authorities: State and Territory government education systems, the National Catholic Education Commission, the National Council of Independent Schools' Associations and the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training.
The National Centre Against Bullying has its own site, plus a specific campaign site on "Buddy Bear and the Better Buddies program", which teaches children to care about the other children around them. You can donate for a Buddy Bag which gives children something of their own when they are taken into emergency alternative care.
NAPCAN Foundation: The National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect: NAPCAN has worked with communities across Australia since 1987 to raise awareness of our shared responsibility for children's wellbeing. A child friendly community is one where children are valued, supported, provided for and actively included. NAPCAN works to inspire, support and enable communities to take responsibility for children's well being and become a community where child abuse and neglect has no place.
Values Education: An excellent source of information
CAPER stands for Child and Adolescent Psychological and Educational Resources. This is linked to the work of Philip Slee and his colleagues at Flinders University SA and has many useful resources. including videos and DVDS dealing with wellbeing. It includes peer relationships, bullying and stress.
The Gatehouse Project was originally set up to promote social and emotional wellbeing for adolescents in Victoria. Their website shares what was learnt plus many useful resources.
Wise Research is an organisation which has developed assessment tools to evaluate wellbeing in schools. More details on the Resources page
International
Restorative Practices International is a new Australian based website intended to link practitioners across the world
Antidote - Antidote UK : the Campaign for Emotional Literacy
CASEL - the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning - based in the USA. CASEL works to establish social and emotional learning as an essential part of education from preschool through high school
Based in Canada Roots of Empathy is an innovative classroom-based parenting program that aims to reduce aggression through the fostering of empathy and emotional literacy. The program reaches children aged 3 to 14 years.
Centre for Confidence and Wellbeing - another UK site hosted by Carol Craig
NELIG - the UK National Emotional Literacy Interest Group
Peace Education's mission is to educate children and adults in the dynamics of conflict and to promote peacemaking skills in homes, schools and communities throughout the world.
About our Kids is also a US site. This link will get you into the page on social and emotional learning
Resource LInks
Materials
St Lukes Resources (www.innovativeresources.org) publish a variety of card packs, sticker sets and other materials
Inyahead press (www.inyahead.com.au) distribute and publish many Circle Time and other relevant books.
Hawker Brownlow have a good selection of books on cooperative learning
Training : NB. Most of these links are to email addresses
Elect-consultants Emotional Literacy in Education, Training and Consultancy. This includes Circle Time training, whole school development and leadership; relationship based behaviour approaches
Bounceback: A Classroom Resiliency Program - two hour after school sessions and full day training. This program is used in many of the Kids Matters schools
Circlespeak Restorative Justice
Real Hope This program teaches values, peace, nonviolence and anti-bullying utilising the powerful symbol of the clown
The Philosophy for Children Association of NSW provides activities and services that support the introduction and development of philosophy in the classroom.
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