S.S.GRIN K-2

Components

Each S.S.GRIN K-2 kit includes:

• 1 Professional Manual (View Table of Contents):
  • Administrative Guidelines
  • 10 sessions scripts and Companion "Quick Point Guides."
  • Attendance and progress notes
  • Sample feedback letter for parents
  • Supplemental reading lists for parents, children, and professionals
  • Web resources
  • Fidelity forms and reccomended evaluation measures
• 1 set of cards for role play activities.
• 10 full-color, fully illustrated child workbooks.
• 5 full-color, fully illustrated classroom posters.
• 1 animated "Adventures Aboard the S.S.GRIN" DVD (Episode title: "Meet the S.S.GRIN Kids and Pirants.")

The Benefits of S.S.GRIN K-2

The academic, social, and behavorial benefits of S.S.GRIN K-2 have been proven through research and confirmed by satisfied customers for over seven years. Evidence reveals that participation in S.S.GRIN has multiple lasting benefits including:

• Increased positive friendships
• Decreased bullying
• Enhanced social self-confidence
• Increased self-esteem
• Improved group participation

S.S.GRIN K-2 is unsurpassed for its combination of proven effectiveness, state of the art style and imagination, and overall value.

S.S.GRIN Is Grounded In Research

S.S.GRIN is evidence-based and proven effective through years of research and clinical experience. Since 1993, quantitative evaluations have repeatedly supported the prosocial benefits of S.S.GRIN. Results published in the Journal of Child and Clinical Psychology demonstrate how children with peer problems who participated in S.S.GRIN learned significant behavorial skills for making and keeping friends, and gained remarkable social-emotional adjustment at school. In contrast, children with peer problems who did not participate in S.S.GRIN showed a decrease in social, emotional, and behavorial skills.

• DeRosier, M.E. (2004). Building relationships and combating bullying: Effectiveness of a school-based social skills group intervention. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 33. 125-130.
• DeRosier, M.E. & Marcus, S.R. (2005). Building friendships and combating bullying: Effectiveness of S.S.GRIN at one-year follow-up. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 34, 140-150.
• DeRosier, M.E. (in press). Peer victimized and rejected children: Promoting school-based adjustment through social skills intervention. In Zins, J.E., Elias, M.J., & Maher, C.A. (Eds.), Handbook of Prevention and Intervention in Peer Harassment, Victimization, and Bullying. New York: Haworth Press.

Training

Training and on-going support are integral components to successful implementation of S.S.GRIN. SELmedia provides customized on-site training to meet your system's needs. Initial training as well as booster sessions are available. Contact training @ SELmediainc.com to learn more about our training and support packages. On-line training and support courses will be available at www.SELmediainc.com beginning July 2008.

Objectives

The main objectives of S.S.GRIN are:

1. To build basic behavorial and cognitive social-emotional skills.
2. To reinforce pro-social attitudes and character traits.
3. To build adaptive coping strategies for social problems such as teasing, isolation, and bullying.

S.S.GRIN K-2 is a 10-session group intervention for children in grades K-2. Each session is designed to last 50 minutes and is typically offered once a week. Within each session, specific social-emotional skills are taught through dynamic instruction and practice (games & activities). Leaders are guided in how to use modeling, positive reinforcement, and cognitive re-framing to support the specific skills within each session.

S.S.GRIN K-2 focuses on the following social-emotional skills:

• Respect for yourself and others
• Making and keeping goals
• Being responsible
• Communicating your thoughts and feelings
• Understanding your own and others' perspectives
• Making and keeping friends
• The importance of cooperation
• Understanding emotions

All children would benefit from a program that promotes positive relationships and prosocial behavior. However, S.S.GRIN is specifically designed to address the needs of children who:

• Feel left out or have few close friends
• Are the targets of bullying or teasing by peers
• Behave aggressively towards others
• Are socially anxious or withdrawn
• Display immature social skills

Mental health professions including school counselors, social workers, and psychologists will find this innovative and detailed curriculum package easy-to-use within school or clinic settings. Click the "Components" tab to see an outline of the combined elements of the S.S.GRIN K-2 kit.

What others are saying about S.S.GRIN:

"Bullying is one of the most underrated but enduring problems in schools today."
--Ronald Stephens, Executive Director, National School Safety Center

"S.S.GRIN is very effective with identified socially at-risk kids. Based on pre/post tests, students reported fewer conflicts and teachers reported lower inappropriate interactions requiring administrative intervention."
--Meliene Bawden, School Counselor, Cary Elementary

"The S.S.GRIN activities work so well with children and are easy to use without much planning ahead of time."
--Meliene Bawden, School Counselor, Cary Elementary

"School systems are constantly being bombarded with pitches for social and behavioral curricula, but few are based on actual psychological research. What 3-C did was not only develop S.S.GRIN, but do the research to show that it does work"
--Jean Sculati, School Counselor, Washington Gifted and Talented Magnet Elementary School