Below are various organizations that promote and disseminate programs for youth emotional intelligence, prosocial behaviors, resiliency skills and mindfulness.
We also include adolescent health organizations doing great work in prevention. If we’ve missed any, let us know!
Mindfulness: Resources and Organizations
American Mindfulness Research Association
Validated Measures for Mindfulness, Self-Compassion (Listing)
Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
Mindful Awareness Research Center at University of California Los Angeles
University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness
Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy
Mindfulness: Children/Education
Association for Mindfulness in Education
The Still Quiet Place (Dr. Amy Salzman)
The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education
Mindsight Institute (Dan Siegel, MD)
Compassion Research & Programs
Self-Compassion (Kristen Neff, PhD)
Center for Mindful Self-Compassion (Christopher Germer, PhD)
Compassion. Bridging Practice and Science, a Multi-Media e-Book
Raising Compassion – Film of conversation among neuroscientists, social scientists, Buddhist monks, and artists, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig, hosted, in July 2011
The Compassionate Mind Foundation
Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, Stanford University
Positive Psychology
Greater Good Science Center, Berkeley
Adolescent Health
American Psychological Association: Stress in America Survey (2014)
World Health Organization: Health for World’s Adolescents
Adolescence: a foundation for future health (Lancet Series, 2012)
SAMSHA (Substance Use and Mental Health Services Administrations)
NREPP is a searchable online registry of more than 330 substance abuse and mental health interventions. NREPP was developed to help the public learn more about evidence-based interventions that are available for implementation.