CHILDREN MENDING HEARTS INC
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Mission Statement
Children Mending Hearts is dedicated to combating bullying and intolerance by inspiring empathy in children through art and service-learning programs.
About This Cause
Children Mending Hearts uses after in-class curriculums, workshops, after school programs, and service-learning experiences for students in pre-school through middle school in order to teach today's students about the concept of empathy. We believe that empathy is a skill that students can and should learn and practice in order to encourage kindness in their day-to-day lives. We want to give students the skills of empathy, teach them about the concept, why they should have it, how they can show it, and how it changes the world, especially with children. If students have more empathy for one another, it will decrease bullying and intolerance, which will make schools kinder, more inclusive places. When these students continue to grow in empathy, eventually it will make the world a better place as well. Our in-class programs for third through fifth grades provide eight monthly lessons that teach students about something that is either currently happening or recently happened in the United States, how empathy improved the situation, what they can do to help others, and what other amazing kids just like them are doing to make the world a better place. Then they do a fun, easy art project that cements the lesson in their mind. The program has a dramatic effect in classrooms: 100% of our teachers from the last school year said they saw their students acting empathetically without being prompted more often, and 97% noted an improvement in their classroom's climate. Overall, both students and teachers reported that bullying decreased in their school at an average rate of 12%. We recently introduced a new pre-school program, where one of our teachers will go into pre-school classes in Burbank, Los Angeles, and Glendale schools and reads the children a story, talks about the lesson of empathy we can learn from that story, and then completes an art projects with the kids. Students and teachers alike love the lessons and are eager to continue to do more with kindness and empathy! We also provide free one-time 45 minute workshops at elementary schools across Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. These workshops can be a very effective introduction to the concept of empathy and why it matters. Schools have noted a decrease in reports of bullying and visits to the principal's office after receiving these workshops. Our longest running programs are our after school programs for middle school students that teach them about other countries and the issues that they struggle with. They learn about a specific type of art that is associated with that country's culture at the same time. Students and program coordinators alike enjoy the lessons and find them easy to teach, with straightforward lesson plans, dynamic slideshows, and all art supplies provided. Additionally, each year we hold several service-learning experiences where students can participate in an art-oriented project that improves the community. These have included decorating gift bags for toy donations for homeless children at Christmas time, painting rocks with inspirational messages to leave around where others (who might need a little inspiration) can find them, provided necessary and desired items for homeless families and made hats and blankets for the homeless on Skid Row while wrapping gifts for homeless children, and decorating lunch bags which students filled with food they had helped put together and took down to Skid Row to hand out to the homeless.