Expressions India

It is now widely acclaimed that Life Skills play a dynamic role in overall future capacities of every student. Mental Health Awareness and Wellbeing should be included as part of general education through the complete span of schooling years. The focus is on evolving good practices in schools for overall personality and resilience development, with intensive participation in behavioral safety, hygiene, gender sensitivity, healthy cyber and social media habits. It has also been noted that schools are the key forums for acquisition of life long behavioral health knowledge, attitudes and Skills through Peer learning and Leadership Training.

Expressions India - The National Life Skills and School Wellness Program is a well-recognized and awarded initiative by the government and non governmental organizations in the country. This program strives to empower, support and streamline the co-scholastic and allied elements to effectively promote Child and Adolescent Life Skills and Wellbeing Culture in an inclusive student led environment for Indian Schools. Having been the technical support for the CBSE Adolescent Life Skills Leadership Program with focus on building the teachers and students as Well Being Ambassadors across the country, a technical resource pool of erudite professionals is effectively functional to facilitate these innovative programs.

The need for a continued dialogue and educational intervention in pursuit of empowering the adolescents of our country as Life Skills and Well-Being Ambassadors has been strongly felt. When adolescents acquire knowledge, values and life skills, they benefit in a variety of ways. These qualities help them to make informed decisions, solve problems, think critically and creatively, communicate effectively, build healthy relationships, empathize with others and cope with and manage their lives in a healthy, safe and productive manner. Expressions India has taken the key technical role in furthering the cause of Health and Behavioral change with the Life skills approach and empowered learning in schools.

In pursuit of advocacy and training in these schools domains, 'Expressions India' has over 12,500 training workshops, National and International Seminars to promote the Child and Adolescent safety, Protection, Life Skills, Values and School Wellbeing. A large number of schooling systems and government institutions in the country regularly seek technical expertise from Expressions India for their advocacy, research, training and enrichment. Earlier, having been an empanelled agency for the CBSE w.r.t. the teachers and students training programs across the country, a technical resource pool of erudite professionals effectively is functional for schools these topical for workshops. Supporting the health and physical education paradigm for the National Curriculum Framework (NCERT) has been a feather in the cap for Expressions India.

• Towards Healthy, Happy and Harmonious Children of India.
• Towards Aware, Responsible and Empowered Adolescents and Youth of India.
• To bring together a large number of schools to have a face-to-face dialogue through various events, envisaging sustainable models of promoting the life skills and well-being programs in schools across the country.
• Make the most of our human talent and potential.
• Inform, educate, and inspire students and adolescents to reach their goals.
• Create a positive environment that both challenges and supports people; and accomplish our goals faster and easier, with less stress and more enjoyment.

• Student enrichment through best practices of Skills based Adolescent Life Skills, Mental Health, Safety and Wellbeing in Schools.
• To ensure integration of School Safety, Nutrition and General Health concerns within the comprehensive school health curriculum along with contemporary gender issues.
• To strengthen the peer to peer dialogue and school family partnership for promoting Life Skills, Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools.
• Voicing the students' psychosocial needs, fostering effective Young Leadership as Life Skills and Wellbeing Ambassadors.
• To Initiate and Maintain a Dialogue between Students, Teachers, Parents and Other Stakeholders.
• Strengthen Capacity of Implementing Agencies for Project Management.
• Facilitate Environment Building and Advocacy with Key Stakeholders and Principals.
• Youth Mental Health and University/College Counseling Services in India.