Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices

Ages: 3-8

Contact: Susan R. Geller
Wingspan, LLC
4196-A Innslake Drive
Glen Allen, VA 23060
Phone: (804) 967-9002

Al's Pals is an early childhood prevention program designed to promote social and emotional competence in young children between the ages of three to eight. The goals of the program are to promote the protective factor of social and emotional competence in young children, and to decrease the risk factor of early and persistent aggression or anti-social behavior.

Al's Pals is based on the premise that by intervening systematically during the early years when children are first forming patterns of behaviors and attitudes, reductions can be made in the likelihood of their later developing aggressive, anti-social, or violent behavior. This resiliency-based curriculum is designed for delivery by trained teachers.

CASEL Promising Program
Center for Substance Abuse and Prevention, Model Program, (PDF)
US Department of Education, Promising Program, 2001