Skills, Opportunities and Recognition (SOAR)
also known as Seattle Social Development Project
Grades: K-6
To Order: Channing L. Bete Company, Inc.
One Community Place
South Deerfield, MA 01373-0200
Phone: 877/896-8532
FAX: 800/499-6464
PrevSci@channing-bete.com
SOAR is a scientifically-tested comprehensive, school-based program
designed to promote positive youth development and academic success.
The program is a schoolwide, school climate program for elementary
schools that promotes the healthy development of young people by
increasing skills for successful participation in the family, school, peer
group and community; opportunities for active involvement in family and
school; and consistent recognition for effort and improvement. A SOAR
school provides social skills training for elementary students, training for
their teachers to improve methods of classroom management, and
instruction on providing developmentally sequenced parenting workshops
for parents. The long-term results indicate that students in SOAR
classrooms are more committed to school, have better academic
achievement, and less misbehavior in the school and the community. SOAR
was tested as the Seattle Social Development Project (SSDP), developed
by Drs. J. David Hawkins and Richard Catalano of the University of
Washington's Social Development Research Group, and is based on their
Social Development Theory.
CASEL,
Strength
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Effective Program, 2001
National Institute on Drug Abuse
US DOE Expert Panel,
Promising Program