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An Aid to Help Foundation is a Canadian Federal Non-Profit Corporation that was created to raise money for the mission to provide encouragement and resources to educators, students, parents and families on ways to learn or teach others to make responsible choices in life.
If you have not already read where proceeds are going please see below. Your donation is going towards this and we want you to feel your money at work in the community, even if you are kind enough to donate just one dollar. Feel empowered that you are making a difference for our children!
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You may also make a donation by Mail. Send a cheque or money order to An Aid to Help Foundation, 5-499 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata, Ontario, K2T 1H7, CANADA. Please make cheques payable to An Aid to Help Foundation. Do not send cash or gifts.
Proceeds for the: INNOVATIVE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION
Money Raised as of July 8th, 2010: $1250
1. To the Psychology Foundation of Canada for their program "Kids Have Stress Too!®". This is a national registered charity dedicated to strengthening families through educational resources, training programs and community-based parent education (www.psychologyfoundation.org).
2. To Roots of Empathy a Canadian registered charity whose mission it is to build caring, peaceful, and civil societies through the development of empathy in children and adults. Its vision is to change the world - one child at a time (www.rootsofempathy.org).
3. To the National Youth and Education Trust of the National Arts Centre Foundation in Ottawa, Canada (www.nac-cna.ca).
4. To the Collaborative for Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) of Chicago, Illinois. The best selling author Daniel Goleman, PhD helped found this non-profit organization. CASEL's mission is to "to establish social and emotional learning (SEL) as an essential part of education." SEL and stress management programs for Public Schools in Canada and the United States have been shown to positively influence child development and An Aid to Help Foundation wishes to support more research into this area through CASEL (www.casel.org).
5. To support Social and Emotional Learning programs (SEL).
NOTE: An Aid to Help Foundation had the chance to review the curriculum for one SEL program for grades 9-12 by School-Connect’s authors Kathy Beland, M.Ed. and Julea Douglass, PhD. Samantha Michael and Dr. Microys from the Board of Directors of An Aid to Help Foundation were very impressed with the 40 lesson curriculum (www.school-connect.net). An Aid to Help Foundation also had the chance to look over some information on the SEL program by Second Step for Middle School students in grades 7-8. Kathy Beland, M.Ed. from School-Connect was also the original author for this. The program is used in over 25, 000 schools in 21 different countries throughout the world (www.cfchildren.org) Lastly An Aid to Help Foundation had the chance to learn about the Mind Up Program for grades K-7 that Goldie Hawn has had created for The Hawn Foundation (www.thehawnfoundation.org).
Listen to what Daniel Goleman, PhD has to say about Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in the video below.
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