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Future Kids NYC Ripple Effect
Ripple Effects develops, supports and continually tests an integrated set of technology-oriented products to reduce injury, increase academic success, and strengthen pro-social behavior among children and the adults who work with them.
 
Ripple Effect
 
Relate for Kids
Relate for Teens
Three Tiered Behavioral Support
 
Teaching Coach
Pre-Referral Interventions
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  System Requirements
  Topics
  Screen Shots
Software for Staff
Ripple Effects for Kids is a research-based tool to help children build resilience and handle the non-academic issues that get in the way of school success. 140 engaging, interactive, reading-independent tutorials build key social-emotional abilities that are more connected to school success than IQ: self-understanding, empathy, impulse control, management of feelings, assertiveness, decision-making and connection to community. The result is kids who know themselves, stand up for their beliefs, solve problems, feel for and connect with diverse others -- and do well in school.
  Ripple Effects for Kids can be used with groups for character education, personal safety training, and overall academic success. It can be used for individualized intervention/guidance on behavior problems (bullying, talking back, lying, fighting), health (obesity, tobacco) and mental health issues (sad, shy, lonely, divorce etc.)
  The software uses Ripple Effects Whole Spectrum Learning System to provide research-based, cognitive, behavioral and affective strategies in engaging formats. Peer modeling, true stories, media analysis, journaling, self-profiles and games to assess content become a catalyst for communication with trusted adults, while preserving fidelity to proven effective methods.
  A built in management system tracks student progress and allows implementers to delete topics they consider inappropriate, solving a problem that has long vexed print publishers.
 
System Requirements for Ripple Effects Software
  Because each program has so much content, especially audio and video, each needs a lot of storage memory on your computer hard drive. That's likely to be the toughest requirement to meet.

All products work on Macintosh and PC computers.

System Requirements

  • MAC OS 7.6 or higher, MAC OS X is in native mode (i.e., not Classic)
  • Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP PCs>
  • 64 MB RAM
  • 1.3 GB recommended for Teens and Kids, 700 MB for Coach for Implementers
  • SB16 Compatible sound card, speakers
  • 6x CD-ROM or DVD drive
  • color monitor
  • QuickTime 6 or higher (included)

Note: There is an option to set up the program if you have only 32 MB of free hard drive space, but we don't recommend it: it makes playback very difficult. Only do this if you are previewing the program in advance of making an investment in a bigger hard drive! DO NOT try to use it this way with students.

To access the Ripple Effects web site:

Modem speed of at least 28.8 Kbytes/second.


Ripple Effects for Kids: Topics

Ripple Effects for Kids offers over 140 tutorials. They are accessed in two ways: through pre-programmed units on Learning, Safety, Character; or via an A to Z index, displayed in a mock cell phone. The cell phone is pictured below. Following is a list of the topics by unit. Download the topic list.


CHARACTER

SENSE OF SELF
knowing yourself
beliefs
assertiveness
controlling impulses
managing feelings
effort
resilience
self-aware

AWARENESS OF OTHERS
empathy
listening
sharing
courtesy
forgiving
diversity-appreciating
help getting it
help-giving it
respect

JUSTICE AND INTEGRITY
honesty
fairness
cheating

MORAL RESPONSIBILITY
trust
responsibility
citizenship
apologies

LEARNING

THE LEARNING PROCESS
learning styles
smarts
strengths
goals-setting
effort

instructions- following
permission - getting
study habits
tests
grades

CONNECTING
friends-making
group-joining
help-getting it
parent-talking to
respect

PROBLEM SOLVING
brainstorming options
consequences-predict
solutions-testing

feelings - knowing yours
self-talk
impulse control

CHALLENGES
absent
attention problems
blurting out
bullied
bully
different
discrimination
family problems
frustrated
gossip
hard things
learning problems
left out
mistakes
peer pressure
stereotypes
talking back
tardy
teacher problems
teased
threats
unfair

SAFETY

UNDERSTANDING SAFETY
safety
bullied
bully-you do it
bystander

touch
secrets
illness

GETTING STRONG
assertiveness

assertive eyes
assertive message
assertive body
assertive reasons
assertive voice
help-getting it
ignoring
reactions-controlling
managing feelings
self-aware
triggers-catching

FEELING FOR OTHERS
empathy
understanding feelings
point of view
motives-understanding

PROBLEM SOLVING
decisions
problem solving
brainstorming options
calming down
predicting consequences
managing feelings
experimenting

OTHER TOPICS

ASSETS
background
body type
caring-show it
complaint - making
compliments
conversations
cultural differences
exercise
feelings-changing
feelings-communicating
feelings-expressing
feelings-mixed
feelings-predicting
inviting

letting go
options-weighing them
problem-naming
questions-asking
self-esteem



CHALLENGES

alcoholic parent
bed wetting
blankie
clingy
crush
cursing
death
diet
disabilities
discouraged
divorce
embarrassed
fat
friend problems
gangs-joining
hands and feet
hormones
introducing
name-calling
neighborhood problems
pet dying

physical differences
pushing and shoving
Ritalin
sad
shy

 
Ripple Effects for Kids: Screen Shots
  Scenario-based Case Study



Interactive Assessment Activity

Peer Modeling Video

Cognitive Framework

 
  Relate for Kids
 
 
Raise grades
Reduce truancy
Prevent bullying
Build character
Solve behavior problems
  "This software can reach kids in ways I can't"
  Nora Dean
L.I.C.S.W. School Social Worker
Washington, D.C.
  "An ideal resource...This is computer technology at its best; interactive, extensive, thorough, and it encourages the learner to take the knowledge into the community."
  Veronica Primus - Thomas
Director
The International Network for Serious
Teens Acting Responsibly, Inc.
 
 
 
             
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