Teacher’s Cartoon Part of a National Program
- August 27th, 2009
- in TCF News & Notes
From the Tuscaloosa News:
When Adam Schwartz designed a cartoon for a class project while a student at the University of Alabama in 2007, he never expected it would become the new face of a program to help children at risk of behavioral problems.
Coping Power, an elementary school-based curriculum that teaches social and emotional skills, was developed by University of Alabama psychology professor John Lochman in the 1980s. Looking for a way to test the Coping Power program in schools, UA partnered with Xavier University and Schwartz, now a first-year assistant professor in telecommunications and film at UA, to create a series of educational cartoons based on the themes in Coping Power. The program received a $100,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop the cartoon series.
Read more online at TuscaloosaNews.com!
To see video of one of the episodes visit, www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOKUSlqwH9w or to learn more about the program visit, www.copingpower.com.