Why teach advanced life skills to all kids right now? it's to protect their good heads & hearts
The data proves it
Emotional Intelligence skills provide a kid’s best chance for success in:
- School
- Careers & Life
- Relationships
the cool skills
kids learn
- Set goals and take initiative
- Manage and ease painful emotions
- Believe in themselves & their abilities
how schools
soar
- Far better grades and grad rates
- Become safer, happier communities
- Discipline incidents plummet
we all happily
benefit
- More productive workforce
- More mentally healthy people
- Less poverty, crime, violence
75% of preK-12 US students have no access to comprehensive school SEL
It's our mission to change that, with parents and businesses as allies.
For Parents -
more than grades
A recent survey found that parents across the spectrum want their kids taught the specific skills SEL provides to deal with Covid stress and succeed in all aspects of life. At home, families can share practices and fun tools that teach AND uplift moods.
For Businesses -
protect your future
SEL is now crucial to workforces. And 80% of parents will pay brand attention if you help get EQ life skills in their schools. Ronnie Selinger, CEO, Nordis Technologies, makes the case for your helping their kids, your employees, and your future.
prominent voices
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy declares a national “Youth Mental Health Crisis” for millions of young lives unsettled by the pandemic.
Needed: A Great Rescue: "Supporting the mental health of children and youth will require a whole-of-society effort [including] expanding programming that promotes healthy development such as social and emotional learning."
Youth Mental Health Crisis and Covid – The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory
December 2021
Ways to Help These Kids
"I have learned in my schools that social-emotional learning is what really matters."
"Social-Emotional Learning has the skills that we find make people successful over the long haul."
"The programs nurture a child's social and emotional health and their academic skills."
"It it important to pay attention to emotional intelligence...We want to explode that conversation to all over the world."
"Congratulations on the Campaign. You are engaged in a truly important endeavor and can touch many lives.”
who we are
EQuip Our Kids!, a project of Earthways Foundation, is a national nonprofit campaign raising needed awareness about and support for EQ life skills, especially among parents and businesses. Founded by civic-minded media, business and social entrepreneurs with no financial stake in the outcomes, our goal is comprehensive EQ life skills instruction in every U.S. pre-K-12 classroom by 2030.
“Social and emotional learning is good for the child, good for the workforce, and good for society.” – The Lego Foundation.
our favorite facts
More important than learning lessons in math, science, and history, these life skills deserve all schools’ adoption.
- Dramatic improvements in student emotional states,
grades and life outcomes - countering Covid setbacks. - Significant declines in bullying, racism, substance abuse, discipline incidents, digital addiction and suicides.
- Almost all parents want EQ life skills taught at schools BUT don't know the programs are available as SEL.
- See the research proof + + Youth behavior before and then after EQ elements are fully taught
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Our Mission
EQuip Our Kids! is a national nonprofit campaign raising awareness about EQ life skills, especially among parents and businesses. Our goal is comprehensive EQ life skills instruction in every preK -12 classroom in the US by 2030.