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Social Emotional Learning at Home
Tools for parents, caregivers, and service providers to to help kids manage emotions, communicate, and build healthy relationships .
Social Emotional Learning Resources
The goal of this website is to invite, collect and ensure that SEL (Social Emotional Learning) tools and resources are easily available, to be accessed from homes, classrooms, agencies, and community and faith organizations across Illinois.
Throughout this site, you will find resources– including educational resources, videos, articles, audio files, curricula, and more–in English and Spanish-that support SEL development and practice for children, youth, and adults.
Our hope is that you can use this site again and again as a resource for and the children and youth in your life as you celebrate your authentic selves and navigate the many ways our emotions and relationship-building show up. Please share the resources found here to expand and strengthen SEL development, positive relationships, and joy we will find together, in your families and communities.
This resource site is a formal collaboration between Bright Promises Foundation and its current and past community partners.
Featured Resources
Check out these resources shared by SEL Expert in Residence, Kam Green, a nationally recognized leader in afterschool education, STEAM programming, and family-centered SEL.

SEL Storytelling
Family-friendly, on-the-go activities to get you and your kids talking, with creative prompts that build self-awareness, empathy and emotional awareness.

Reflect and Connect
Simple, conversation-based strategies for families to support children’s emotional development at home.
Increase self-awareness, compassion, and confidence

SEL Family Experiences
Use this resource for ideas about family friendly volunteer experiences and other experiential ideas.

SEL Storytelling
Family-friendly, on-the-go activities to get you and your kids talking, with creative prompts that build self-awareness, empathy and emotional awareness.
Reinforcing Positive Behavior

Family Activity: Connection Jar
A Connection Jar offers families and caregivers a meaningful way to deepen their bonds through gratitude, celebration, and appreciation.
Strengthening and Maintaining Healthy Relationships

SEL: Self-Awareness for Adults
Reflect about messages you've learned, your emotions, and your actions to consider if and how they model these things for the children in your lives

Talking Circles
This activity can be used to assist families in listening more intently to one another and being more comfortable sharing honestly without interruption. This activity develops relationship and social skills, self awareness and self regulation.
Resolving Conflict

Reflect and Connect
Simple, conversation-based strategies for families to support children’s emotional development at home.
Encouraging Children's Ability to Learn