S.S.GRIN Overview

S.S.GRIN (Social Skills Group Intervention) is a Response to Intervention Tier 2 program that is addressing both bullies and victims in schools across the country.  An evidence-based, age-appropriate, anti-bullying intervention, S.S.GRIN has been proven to dramatically reduce school violence and increase the social-emotional competence of both perpetrators and victims.

Within S.S.GRIN’s ten, easy to follow sessions, specific social-emotional skills are taught through dynamic instruction and practice (games & activities). With fully scripted lesson plans, counselors are guided in how to use modeling, positive reinforcement, and cognitive re-framing to support the specific skills within each session.

• S.S.GRIN is a Response to Intervention (RTI) Tier 2 program.
• S.S.GRIN works.  Results published in the Journal of Child and Clinical Psychology show a 24% increase in “liking” by peers, a 44% decrease in “aggression” and a 63% decrease in “antisocial affiliations.” 
• S.S.GRIN enables counselors to demonstrate and track their proactive approach to reducing student aggression and helping bullying victims - verifying compliance with bully prevention policies.
• S.S.GRIN is easy-to-use. However, FREE online training is available 24x7 through our state of the art web portal, for which participants earn CE credits.

Which children should be in an S.S.GRIN group?  Check out Zoo U - an online game for kids, a powerful social skills assessment tool for educators!

Get parents involved - ParentPaths is an online, self-paced course for parents who want to help their children learn social skills!