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About The 3-C Institute for Social Development

The 3-C Institute for Social Development is a research company which creates and delivers scientifically validated intervention and assessment tools for parents and professionals who wish to help children build positive peer relations and help them develop social coping skills. Much of our research is directed at helping address significant societal problems such as school violence, social deficits of children and adolescents. Our research is also directed at the development of psychopathology.

Our commercial products, such as S.S.GRIN™ and LifeStories for Kids™ help parents and professional alike teach essential social coping skills and life lessons to children. These products have shown demonstrative success with helping kids learn important social skills such as how to handle bullying and how to promote healthy peer relationships.

The 3-C Institute for Social Development, also develops tools for researchers. We offer training and dissemination services. Through our companion 4Researchers website (http://www.4researchers.org), we provide an innovative approach to disseminating research data and developing online courseware. Additionally, we help researchers track the effectiveness of their dissemination by allowing them to effectively track the progress of their course attendees.

Our Mission

The 3-C Institute for Social Development creates and delivers scientifically validated assessment and intervention tools for professionals and parents who wish to help children build positive peer relationships and social coping skills. We are devoted to furthing positive social, emotional and behavioral development though our intervention tools and professional training opportunities.