ABSTRACT
Social Emotional Learning programs targeted at enhancing social emotional competencies and prosocial skills have the ability to promote positive development in children. This chapter features an early years social emotional program, COPE-Resilience, which incorporates the early years visual coping tools along with age-appropriate activities to enhance children’s knowledge and understanding of feelings, and to learn how to care for others, communicate openly, behave in a polite and respectful manner and empathise and share with others. It explores how nurturing these skills is important for positive developmental outcomes and the vital role of educators to enable participating children to give voice to a range of social and emotional issues so that children can have the best start in life to create a better future.
