Parenting & Community Support

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Rye Youth Council strengthens families by educating parents and caregivers on issues affecting today's youth, and providing strategies to enhance  connections with young people.  Our programs address ways to identify and resolve common parenting challenges, and our approach is always through a lens of social and emotional learning.  

 Rye Youth Council supports children, teachers and parents in teaching social and emotional life skills to children, in and out of the classroom.  RYC Youth Educator teaches an in-class Social and Emotional Learning curriculum to every 3rd and 4th grade class in the Rye City School District. 

Social and emotional learning is the process for understanding yourself, managing your emotions and feelings, and your relationships with others. It's about the skills necessary to cultivate the ability to have healthy connections or relationships.
Children's social and emotional well-being is essential to their academic and lifelong success.  

All RYC programs and services address the five social and emotional learning core competencies: 

• Self-awareness
• Self-management
• Social awareness
• Responsible Decision Making  
• Relationship Skills

Click  to learn about the SEL skills Rye's 3rd graders are learning, and what our 4th graders are learning.   Click here to watch our Youth Educator teach SEL.