MATCH Connect
Providing a foundation for Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Health!
Unprecedented Times
The COVID-19 Pandemic has caused tremendous stress and strain on adolescents. The isolation of social distancing and personal loss of family and friends had an impact. Financial hardships associated with parental unemployment have led to the inability to provide basics including housing, utilities, food, transportation, and healthcare. Additionally, difficulties associated with remote instruction have resulted in unprecedented family stress.
MATCH Connect™Provides All Adolescents With:
- Social-learning support groups that facilitate growth and empower students to understand and combat consequences associated with the COVID-19 pandemic
- A tool kit for decision-making based on the same theoretical models relied upon for one-on-one counseling
- Equitable and holistic wellness goals and objectives to address the "whole child"
- Understanding and destigmatizing mental, social and emotional wellbeing
- An interactive and tangible program completed among peers who are experiencing similar situations with the same timeframe and context
MATCH Connect™ Universal Prevention:
- Promotes SCHOOL SAFETY through universal prevention delivered to ALL students
- Provides an essential foundation of knowledge and skills needed to achieve targeted goals for social, emotional, and behavioral health
- Addresses academic objectives and age-appropriate skills by providing backward designed lesson plans
- Uses a culturally diverse group of teens, known as The GameChangers, for delivering content
- Introduces topics and provides potential solutions that students can easily apply to their lives
- Creates an awareness among teachers and students of health equity and health disparity issues
MATCH Connect™ Comparison to CASEL Standards
