Recommended by the Chilean Ministry of Education, Meeduco’s Paso Adelante is helping children in schools throughout Chile develop emotional intelligence and social abilities.

Denmark | Askeleittain
Special-Paedagogisk Forlag (SPF)

Thanks to Special Education Publishing, 85% of Danish elementary and middle schools use the Second Step program.

Finland | Trin for Trin
OY AKAT Consulting

The Second Step program is used in 75% of Finnish schools. School psychologist Arja Sigfrids of Oy Akat Consulting says: “Parents can see there is a difference at home. The program works in Finland and the students and teachers like it.”

Germany | Faustlos
Heidelberg Prevention Center and Hogrefe-Verlag Publishing Company

Thanks to Special Education Publishing, 85% of Danish elementary and middle schools use the Second Step program.

Greenland | Tulleriit
Inerisaavik/Pilarsuiffik

Greenland’s Ministry of Education has ensured that every public elementary school in the country has the Second Step program.

Japan | Sekando Suteppu
Committee for Children Japan

One of the country’s first nonprofits, Committee for Children Japan has found that the Second Step program can help decrease school absences by up to 46 percent. It is used in 560 Japanese classrooms.

Kurdistan | Hengaw be Hengaw
KOMAK

Thanks to Special Education Publishing, 85% of Danish elementary and middle schools use the Second Step program.

Lithuania | Antras Zingsni
Children Support Centre

Children Support Center psychologist Zyrdre Arlauskaite found that the Second Step program helped Lithuanian students with low social-emotional skills the most, and helped them “learn to solve problems, to solve conflicts in the peaceful way.”

Norway | Steg for Steg
Prososial (and SPF)

Prososial’s hard work has resulted in 65% of Norwegian elementary schools using the Second Step program.

Philippines | Pansariling Kaligtasan Para Sa Mga Bat
Center for the Prevention & Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse

The CTPCSA has been using the Talking About Touching program since 1995, and has since successfully lobbied the Philippine government to require sexual abuse prevention education in schools.

Slovakia | Srdce Na Dlani
PROFKREATIS

Profkreatis’s Zuzana Zupinova has found that Slovakian schools that use the Second Step program “are doing really well.” The name of the program translates to “heart on a palm,” which is a Slovakian expression for being social, hardy, and emotionally strong.

Sweden | StegVis; Gíslason and Löwenborg Psychology Group (and CESEL)
Special-Paedagogisk Forlag

Bjorn Gíslason and Lars Löwenborg say the Second Step program “works for Swedish children. Teachers get to know the children better. There’s less aggression. They are coaching pupils to think about how to solve problems, when earlier they had been solving the problems for kids.”

Turkey | Ikinci Adim
Gunce Psychological Counseling and Group Studies Center

SES psychologist Cecil Cuntay says the Second Step program meets “all our needs about having strong and resilient children. In our pilot study, we showed that the school climate and the classroom climate changed after a Second Step implementation.”

Global Reach

Schools and government departments around the world are calling us, eager to learn more and begin teaching our English-language social-emotional learning programs. Our global reach keeps growing. Here are just some of the stories.

Australia

Australia’s KidsMatter, a mental health and well being framework for primary schools endorses our programs, considering them to be some of the most comprehensive programs currently available. With state and national education and health departments endorsement, our programs are now used by 17 schools and agencies.

Canada

More than 600 schools, districts, pre-schools, agencies, and organizations across Canada use our programs, some of which have been translated into French.

South Korea

South Korea’s education system has recently begun to address bullying. Eight South Korean schools have adopted the Second Step program.

Cayman Islands

The Second Step program has been in both government education department and private schools in the Cayman Islands.

Guam

Committee for Children curricula have been distributed to local schools by the Department of Education and Head Start programs in Guam.

Hong Kong

Three schools and organizations in Hong Kong have adopted the Second Step program, and one school has adopted the Steps to Respect program.

Kazakhstan

A Kazakhstani international school has adopted the Second Step program and had their teachers trained by a Committee for Children representative.

Mexico

Thirteen Mexican schools have adopted the English Second Step program, and two have adopted the Spanish version.Thirteen Mexican schools have adopted the English Second Step program, and two have adopted the Spanish version.

Our programs are now helping children lead safer more productive lives in over *** countries. Check out our map.