Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Children
Citizenship and Governance
Crime Prevention
Disabled Persons
Education
Family
Human Rights
Peace and Security
Social Development
Values
Violence
Women
Youth
Social Development:
Conflict
Youth
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| Geographic scope: |
National
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| Country of activity: |
Brazil
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Achieve universal primary education
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| Organizational structure: |
ASEC (CEMHPA) is a legal non-profit and private entity. Its activities are totally aimed at promoting the development of social and emotional skills in children ( UNESCO Skills of Life) It was founded in November 2004, due to the success of the pilot application of the Zippy's Friends program in Brazil, an unprecedented and universal initiative for the development of socio-emotional skills. Zippy's Friends program is aimed at all children regardless of their social level, life history and skills. Its character is preventive - it educates for emotional and mental health. Participating in it, children at an early age develop life skills, which makes them more apt to solve problems and avoid crises in adolescence and adulthood. ASEC is governed by a General Assembly of associates, a Board composed of six members and a Fiscal Council, all of them volunteers. The majority of its members have been in the organization since its foundation, and many with a long history in the CVV – Centro de Valorização da Vida ( Brazilian Samarithans) -, a non-profit association with a federal public utility that, since 1962, has been involved in suicide prevention and support for adults in emotional crisis. An important part of its philosophy of welcoming and indiscriminate support to people has been incorporated into the values of ASEC, which maintains its programs open to the public, without any distinction of religion, economic / social level or political involvement. ASEC has as main resources its 40th team members, that works nationwide aligned and congruent in the practice of the concepts and philosophy of its social emotional development programs (linked to www.partnershipforchildren.org.UK network) . It feeds, through processes structured throughout the team, its key competence, which is the "capacity to raise awareness of the importance of emotional development", both for the children and youth who are the target of the programs and for the adults who they come in contact with - educators and parents. This competency responds to the demand for very large and growing Adult Emotional Health courses in recent years. From a small office in São Paulo, ASEC manage its team to delivery annually teachers training and seminars in more than 45 locations and up to 2016 more than 270,000 children were benefit from 7,900 teachers and educators trained.As it has already been demonstrated through an independent professional evaluation the program developed with the children produces a permanent transformation in the professional life of the teacher, in such a way that is quite possible to affirm that, indirectly, all other future students of these teachers will be also benefited. ASEC received a Certification as a NGO that promotes human rights and also has since its born a Children and Youth Association Certificate that assures it works for their rights |
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As we mention in the organization structure ASEC has as main resources its 40th team members, mostly psychologists, educators, all of them certified in a very restricted process, recognized not only internationally by Partnership for Children but also nationally by MEC - Brazilian Ministry of Education as a tool to promote human rights under educational environment. ASEC team works nationwide aligned and congruent in the practice of the concepts and philosophy of its social emotional development programs (linked to www.partnershipforchildren.org.UK network) . |
| Affiliation with NGO networks: |
www.PartnershipforChildren.org.UK (32 countries in the network)) |
| Funding structure: |
Funds from other Non-Governmental Organizations
Fees for education and training services
Donations and grants from domestic sources
Fundraising campaigns
Foreign and international grants
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