Partnerships & Endorsements
Partners
As National Magazine Partner for our Healthy Thinking campaign, Canada's leading parenting magazine provides valuable print and Web support to generate awareness for this campaign. Our friends at Today's Parent have also agreed to provide relevant content, aimed at parents of tweens, for the kids.now website. See our Parent Resources section for more information. todaysparent.com
In 2008, kids.now signed a formal agreement with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), the third largest school board in North America. Under this agreement, the TDSB donates facilities for the kids.now programs, and agrees to assist kids.now in sourcing and securing new schools interested in offering kids.now programs to their students. tdsb.on.ca
In 2009, kids.now was selected as an Alberta's Promise agency for our work in Alberta relating to sustaining and maintaining vital programs for youth in this province. Alberta's Promise facilitates relationships between caring Albertan corporations and valuable community organizations working to make a difference. For more information, visit albertaspromise.org, or view the kids.now profile on their site.
Contributors
Barbara Coloroso is an international bestselling author and for the past 38 years an internationally recognized speaker and consultant on parenting, teaching, school discipline, positive school climate, bullying, grieving, nonviolent conflict resolution and restorative justice. Her uniquely effective parenting and teaching strategies were developed through years of training in sociology, special education, and philosophy, as well as field-tested through her experiences as a classroom teacher, lab school instructor, university instructor, seminar leader, volunteer in Rwanda, and mother of three grown children. She is the author of four international bestsellers: kids are worth it!, Parenting Through Crisis, The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander, and Just Because It's Not Wrong Doesn't Make It Right. Ms. Coloroso is a contributor to kids.now's Healthy Thinking campaign. kidsareworthit.com
Michael Ungar, Ph.D. is a family therapist and author of books for parents such as We Generation: Raising Socially Responsible Kids and Too Safe For Their Own Good: How Risk and Responsibility Help Teens Thrive. He is an internationally recognized expert on resilience among youth and families, and leads a study that looks at how young people thrive in more than a dozen countries. Dr. Ungar is a contributor to kids.now's Healthy Thinking campaign. www.michaelungar.ca
Dr. Karen Reivich is the co-director of the Penn Resiliency Project and a research associate in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a leader in the field of depression prevention, resilience, positive psychology interventions and school-based intervention research. Dr. Reivich is a co-author of two books: The Optimistic Child and The Resilience Factor. Dr. Reivich is a contributor to kids.now's Healthy Thinking campaign. fishfulthinking.com
Endorsements
kids.now has an official program endorsement from the Ministry of Education in Alberta, which has formally recognized "the positive life and social skills that the kids.now program develops. (The Ministry) also commends the citizen engagement and volunteerism component of the program in terms of the volunteer coaches from the community who come into schools during their personal time to coach and mentor youth." www.education.alberta.ca
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