An Innovative Approach to Supporting the Whole Child
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and wellbeing for school age youth can help young people cope and thrive. Consider utilizing Dibble’s engaging programs that are aligned with the Collaborative of Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) core competencies as a part of your Multi-Tier Systems of Support (MTSS) plans for the whole child and your school community.
Mind Matters 2.0: A Map for Thriving
Young people experiencing trauma and toxic stress often have difficulty regulating their emotional responses when facing challenges in school, life, and relationships. The SEL skills taught in Mind Matters 2.0 help young people take charge of their emotions and improve their states of mind. Participants learn to address their physical, relational, and mental health needs.
The twelve lessons of Mind Matters 2.0, based on current research and neuroscience, are designed to be taught by a teacher or other non-clinician in the classroom or out-of-school program.
- Self-Soothing and Regulating Emotions: Learn practical tools for calming the nervous system, including focused breathing, grounding techniques, and the Reboot Sigh.
- Discovering and Managing Emotions: Develop emotional intelligence through body scans, emotion identification, and the Internal Journal.
- The Observing Self: Learn to observe thoughts and feelings without judgment, creating space between an experience and a response.
- Empathy and Co-Regulation: Build compassion and strengthen relationships through deep listening, the Loving Kindness exercise, and co-regulation practices.
- Support Networks: Map and strengthen personal support systems; practice asking for help.
- Self-Compassion and Resilience: Explore how adversity shapes the brain and body, recognize Positive Childhood Experiences, and build a resilience toolkit grounded in self-compassion and a positive growth mindset.
- Healing Through Rhythm and Reflection: Use music, movement, and Memory Release techniques to process and integrate difficult experiences.
- Tapping and Efficient Sleep: Learn Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT/Tapping) and evidence-informed sleep practices.
- Movement and Self-Care: Design a personalized movement plan and explore the role of physical activity, play, and rest in healing. Practice effective habit formation strategies.
- Life of Intention: Develop SMARTER goals, create a Road Map for Life, and practice ethical decision-making.
- Code of Honor and Asking for Help: Clarify personal values, build the Honor Shield, and identify people who can support your goals.
- The Ongoing Journey: Review, commit, and create a Game Plan for continued growth—including a new “Track It to a Habit.”
What people are saying about Mind Matters 2.0:
We reviewed multiple curriculum options that addressed increasing emotional coping and resilience skills and felt this to be the easiest to use for instructors from various backgrounds, was evidence informed, and encompassed most of the objectives we were looking for.~Director
Using Mind Matters for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
Mind Matters 2.0 can not only expand your mental health supports and services in school, but also grow students’ understanding and growth in social and emotional learning. See how the program can be used as a Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 SEL support all throughout school culture, classrooms, small groups, and in one-on-one settings.
Love Notes: Relationship Skills for Love, Life, and Work
Love Notes, a comprehensive, evidence-based program, helps young adults and young parents build Social and Emotional Literacy through the lens of their intimate relationships. Rather than focusing on what to avoid, Love Notes builds assets and appeals to aspirations. Love Notes builds skills and knowledge for healthy and successful relationships with partners, family, friends, and co-workers. The communication skills and self-awareness components of Love Notes are key to all kinds of relationships in life.
Love Note’s key topics address the SEL skills needed to grow and heal from trauma:
- Awareness of self, personalities, expectations, and more
- Self-management, responding to pressure situations, and communication skills
- Forming and maintaining healthy relationships – what is and is not healthy or acceptable
- Responsible Decision Making – assessing relationships, pacing, planning for sexual choices, exiting strategies, the Success Sequence
- Social Awareness – technology and impact on romantic relationships, sexting, and online porn
What People are Saying about Love Notes:
With this group, it helps us stay in school, helps us open our eyes to healthy relationships. It helps us get what we need to grow in ourselves, and also grow in our families, and grow in our children. And also, like I don’t know, it gives us hope!~Teacher
Relationship Smarts PLUS
Relationship Smarts PLUS for younger teens, aims to build confidence and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) by focusing on their romantic relationships. The program strengthens protective factors by appealing to youths’ aspirations, rather than merely emphasizing what they must avoid. It empowers youth with SEL skills needed to form and maintain healthy relationships and work toward their goals.
Many topics in the program meet the goals of the Collaborative of Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) core competencies:
- Social awareness, identifying personal strengthens and weaknesses, understanding the past, and more
- Self-awareness, understanding chemistry of attraction, choosing partners
- Self-Management, communication skills, and problem solving
- Relationship Skills, what is healthy and unhealthy, pacing, warning signs, exiting strategies
- Responsible Decision Making, the low-risk strategy to decide, not slide
What People are Saying About Relationship Smarts PLUS:
Teens need this program and they need you to help them make it work in their lives. No other program that I have seen challenges teens to confront their feelings, their decisions and their behaviors as thoroughly as [Relationship Smarts].
