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Evidence-based Interventions

3-C ISD’s interventions reflect years of research on children’s peer relationships as well as clinical experience working with children and families. 3-C ISD is devoted to the development of research-based tools that have been shown to be useful and effective.


	S.S.GRIN Social Skills Group Intervention (S.S.GRIN) is a small group intervention designed to build children’s social skills, self-confidence, and personal responsibility which, in turn, support their ability to be successful at school and at home. The S.S.GRIN curriculum provides structured session scripts that professionals in school or community settings can incorporate into small group work with children or parents.

	LifeStories For Kids LifeStories for Kids is a multimedia character education program. Using stories told by award-winning storytellers and evidence-based skill building exercises, LifeStories for Kids addresses character, prosocial, and emotional skills. The intervention is available in kits for schools, and its components are available on an individual basis for home use. The program is most appropriate for elementary-school children in Kindergarten through fifth grades.

	Adventures in Emotional Literacy Adventures in Emotional Literacy is a classroom-based curriculum that teaches children about emotions and helps them learn the emotional literacy skills of recognition, understanding, labeling, expressing, and regulating emotion. The curriculum is available for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade.

	Celebrating the Strengths of Black Youth Celebrating the Strengths of Black Youth is a small group intervention program designed to reinforce Black children’s existing strengths and help them develop new strengths, including positive cultural attitudes. The program will include a fully scripted 10-session curriculum that focuses on social, behavioral, and emotional concerns specific to Black youth. The program also includes interactive computer resources and family activities designed to engage caregivers. See funding information for Celebrating the Strengths of Black Youth

	Cultural Heritage Stories for Kids: Latino Series Cultural Heritage Stories for Kids: Latino Series is a classroom-based intervention designed to celebrate diverse cultural heritages, promote acceptance of diversity, and educate students about similarities among cultures. Combining storytelling with classroom-based exercises, the program contains curriculums on Cuban American, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican American culture. This program currently is undergoing testing. See funding information for Cultural Heritage Stories for Kids: Latino Series.

	Student Curriculum on Resilience Education 3-C ISD, in collaboration with LEAD Pittsburgh, has developed an intervention called Student Curriculum on Resilience Education (SCoRE). This program is designed to decrease levels of perceived stress among incoming college freshman. Students are provided with specific strategies that may help them deal with stressors commonly associated with the transition to college. We are also developing an online self-paced, personalized version of this course that incorporates audio, video motion graphics, animation, and interactive exercises, as well as data collection and monitoring tools foor students and institutions.

Visit our Serious Games page to learn about our game-based interventions and assessment programs.

Other 3-C ISD products:

	Zoo U
Use technology to help children understand social concepts.

	Continuing Education
Take continuing education courses about research practice and statistics.

	3-C Technologies
Use innovative web-based applications to support research, training, and program implementation.

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