Harvard researchers at The Center on Media and Child Health report that watching Connect with Kids programs in the classroom and at home improves communication and behavior.
Connect with Kids is award-winning, video-based programming with a proven peer-to-peer format featuring real kids sharing their true stories about today’s adolescent issues. The programs include teaching resources that facilitate meaningful student discussion, student self-reflection, and cross-curriculum integrated learning. Our programs are used by teachers and counselors in thousands of schools across the country including:
"Our programs truly serve as powerful teaching tools and help to facilitate conversations between teachers and students, as well as parents and their children, around important topics."
- Gwen Schiada, Psy.D. Vice President, Research & Development
Why Educators Choose Connect with Kids
- Connect with Kids supports Federal initiatives including No Child Left Behind, Safe and Drug Free Schools, Title I, Title IV and Title V.
- Connect with Kids is a selected evidence-based program in the U.S. Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse.
- Research shows Connect with Kids improves student behavior, improves school climate and interaction with teachers, and increases communication among parents and their children.
- Connect with Kids provides parent outreach through workshop and PTA programming, as well as Emmy® award-winning television programming that correlates to the classroom programs. Students learn in the classroom... parents and families watch and learn at home, creating community-wide learning about today’s most important youth issues.
Parent Outreach Series
