Be-Hope SEL App

The Be-Hope App

Why do students need the Be-Hope App?

• Having positive social and emotional skills is important throughout life and can have an impact on how children and youth function at home, school, and in social situations.

• When children and youth face social, emotional, or behavioral challenges, it can impact their safety and chances for school success and healthy relationships.

• Social and emotional disconnection also leads to violent and unstable neighborhoods, sometimes suicide. Children and adolescents with social and emotional challenges are underserved by the resources of most schools.

What does the Be-Hope App do?

• The multilingual APP addresses this need by providing students mobile access to a collection of interactive self-help and social interaction sections designed by professionals and students.

• For the first time, each student can have access to a 24/7 resource to help deal with a range of social and emotional challenges and community needs in an influential and positive way.

Who does the Be-Hope App serve?

- 6th through 12th-grade students: phase 1

- 2nd through 5t- grade students: phase 2

- The program serves the Greater Houston schools. It will then extend beyond the greater Houston area, throughout Texas, and ultimately nationwide and worldwide.

What are the benefits of the Be-Hope App to the school population at large?

• Through the Be-Hope App, students, teachers, and family members have easy access to 24/7 self-help therapeutic and social interaction tools designed by students for students and professionals. The Be-Hope App was created in conjunction with a youth council through ongoing research, surveys, and dialog.

• With only a phone, the Be-Hope App can provide comfort, a way to bounce back for those struggling with anxiety, stress, loss of knowledge, social interaction and self-control, positive and healthy relationships, time-management, and self-motivation, and more.

• The results, proven by school-based SEL, are changed lives and more peaceful and stable school environments and neighborhoods.

Who created the Be-Hope App?

Partners in the Be-Hope program include the following organizations: Be the Peace - Be the Hope (BTPBTH), the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts (TFAA), Rotary Clubs of Rotary District 5890 (Sharpstown and Houston International), Rotary Foundation, Lovescaping, the Baylor College of Medicine, Unbound, Arts Connect, the City of Houston Department of Education, and JRW Creative Group.

Introduction to the Be-Hope SEL & Community App

Explore BE-HOPE & Be empowered!

You will find here tools to understand yourself and others better, recharge, build your strengths, make better decisions, rejoice and will connect with a caring, peaceful, brave, & supportive community :)

Why it is important to support Be-Hope?

Please join in our Non-Profit goal of bringing the Be-Hope App to all students in need, no matter where they may be.

We are hugely grateful to all those who have lent encouragement, hard work, and support to transforming this essential idea into reality.

Help Our Children & Youth with the BE-HOPE app

Thanks to your generous support and the BE-HOPE app, we will be able to serve many students' social and emotional needs that would not have been served otherwise.

Our mission to offer social and emotional support to help children and youth heal from trauma, embrace their strengths and regain hope, starts with you, our gracious donors as we seek to build caring and supportive communities, and a better future.

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Thousands of Greater Houston youth/children need our support

The Greater Houston area has over 500,000 students many of whom lack social and emotional support and are at risk, underserved, and are often overlooked by the community’s strained resources.

Please join our team of non-profits and professionals that includes Rotary, Be the Peace -Be the Hope, Lovescaping, The Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium, the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts, and many others* who will bring immediate HELP to our struggling youth during these pandemic stress-filled times.

Our solution: The Be-Hope mobile phone software APP & its educational workshops

With your support educators, students and their families will now have easy access to 24/7 self-help therapeutic and community tools. With just a phone, the Be-Hope App can provide comfort, knowledge, and a way to bounce back for those that are struggling with anxiety, stress, self-control, relationships, time management, self-motivation, among others. The results are changed and saved lives and more peaceful and stable communities.

For the first time, a holistic solution mobile App is now available

This practical, fun, educational and social software application provides the following key features and benefits:

• 24/7 access

• Bilingual self-help sections designed by students for students and professionals

• Core life skills education

• Sense of community

• Get Involved and Good News sections for positive and healthy connections

For more information, please contact us at bepeacebehope@gmail.com or 713-822-2060

How is the Be-Hope App structured?

The App teaches aspects of Social and Emotional learning (SEL), and addresses mental health and social needs through targeted sections, as follows:

Activities section

This section interactively teaches students the different aspects of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) through hands-on learning. Students follow topic areas addressing essential life skills and challenges and explore each one of them through instructional videos, hands-on exercises/discovery polls, a confidential personal Diary section, and additional information about the nature of each topic/challenge. The Activities section includes a Welcome page that introduces SEL. Then, there are the guided approaches to Emotions, Self-Control, Self-Motivation, Time Management, Stress Relief, Relationships, Resilience, Optimizing the Brain (Neuroscience, Beliefs, Communication & Conflict Resolution, Empathy, Compassion. Each of these guides follows a similar format.

Help with Life Challenges section

This section was developed by mental health professionals of the Baylor College of Medicine as well as professionals from BTPBTH and Unbound. It delicatelyguides studentstowards help for more seriouschallenges that can lead to stress and depression and gives direct connections to 24-hour resources for the most severemental health crises that could involve risks of self-harm and suicide.It also provides support with social media safety, healthy relationships, and boundaries. This part is especially critical as children and youth have been very hard hit by the emotional stressors of the global pandemic and shut-down.

Posts section

Here, students can share with one another memories and events by posting pictures and short commentaries. This is designed as a tool for students to share what is important and memorable to them. Submitted posts are reviewed for content before being released for general viewing. SEL emphasizes sharing communications and taking actions to overcome being isolated. The Posts section allows students to share kind acts and things that are meaningful with classmates without being subjected to the possible bullying and harassment of traditional social media.

Workshops section

This section providesexercises that bolster the Activities components in an unstructured and playful manner. Components include Reading Aloud, Multiplayer Games by which classmates can engage with one another in a spirit of fun, Memory exercises, Movement including playful exercise and dance, Exploration including guided internet tours of fascinating places and activities around the world, Art and Art Experiences including home art projects,and artistic offerings that can be Calmingincluding meditation and other stress-reduction techniques, Apps including selectedapplications that students can download to their phones to support and enhance SEL development, and Build Your Future which covers many different educational topics from simple to advanced levels.

Get Involved

Here, students will find links to websites that host service projects focused on art offerings and experiences in which they can become engaged. From an SEL perspective, it is crucial for students to appreciate the needs of others and to engage in activities that help others rather than focusing on themselves. Therefore, the current chosen sites offer activities such as making artwork, poetry or music, or writing letters to support and inspire others in need.

Good News

In this final section, students can post news articles and other multimedia content to share with their classmates’ news of children and youth who are helping others through humanitarian projectsusing the arts along with other disciplines. Again, SEL aims to take the focus away from one’s own problems and needs and to overcome depression and despair through recognizing and helping others in need. As with the Posts section, items posted by students to the Good News section are moderated (inspected for content) before being displayed to all classmates.

•We hope you have enjoyed this introduction to the Be-Hope App. Please join in our Non-Profit goal of bringing the Be-Hope App to all students in need, no matter where they may be.

You can contact us at bepeacebehope@gmail.com