When students enter kindergarten with the self-regulation and resiliency skills taught with evidence-based Second Step® Early Learning, they’re set up for success.
Second Step Early Learning is easy for anyone to use and is designed to keep children engaged.
Children benefit from resiliency learning at any time, but today it’s especially important to help them develop the skills they need to connect and thrive. Second Step® Elementary is a leading research-based resiliency curriculum for students in Kindergarten–Grade 5.
The program offers two options: the web-based Second Step® Elementary digital program and print-based Second Step® Elementary classroom kits
Middle school is a time of change, growth, and life lessons. With Second Step® Middle School, we help students communicate and collaborate, solve problems, make good decisions, set and meet goals, and process their emotions—skills they’ll use in the classroom and for the rest of their lives.
Kosciusko Cares was awarded the “Drug-Free Communities” support grant in partnership with the Otis R. Bowen Center.
The focus of DFC is to establish and strengthen community collaborations in support of local efforts to prevent youth substance use. An upstream approach will focus on delaying the onset of youth use of alcohol and tobacco, including electronic delivery systems (vape). This effort will engage, educate, and recruit youth and adults to affect community-level progress in preventing youth substance use. Our Drug-Free Kosciusko and youth coalitions are working to address alcohol and nicotine use in youth in Kosciusko County.
Kosciusko Cares promotes positive messaging to set the record straight that most youth do not use substances. We have posters, restroom stall covers, movie theatre promotions, social media, and billboards.
Our media campaign “Talk They Hear You.” challenges parents to talk to their kids early and often regarding substance use. The campaign includes videos, social media, billboards and printed materials.
