Learn about Roots of Empathy
Want to help reduce bullying, aggression and violence?
Want to surround your young people with a positive and lasting experience that will help them to bring empathy to their future lives as citizens, parents and leaders of tomorrow?
Merseyside Youth Association and Roots Of Empathy are collaborating to bring the Roots of Empathy programme to the Liverpool City Region: Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, Wirral & St Helens.
The Youth Endowment Fund has commissioned Roots of Empathy to work with primary schools in a number of cities in England.
We are hoping we can work together to support the children in your community and give them the emotional skills to help them make a successful transition to secondary school by providing Roots Of Empathy’s award winning programme in Year 5.
We are looking to recruit primary schools over the next month to start delivery of the Roots of Empathy programme.
The Youth Endowment Fund has commissioned Roots of Empathy to work with primary schools in a number of cities in England.
We are hoping we can work together to support the children in your community and give them the emotional skills to help them make a successful transition to secondary school by providing Roots Of Empathy’s award winning programme in Year 5.
We are looking to recruit primary schools over the next month to start delivery of the Roots of Empathy programme.
Join us for a virtual briefing session on Wednesday 18th May at 4- 4.45pm (complete the form below to register your interest)
This is the start of a three year project and we very much hope that together we can make a positive impact in Liverpool City Region
You can read more about the programme's background here
and watch a short film.
What is The Roots of Empathy Programme?
Roots of Empathy is an evidence-based programme that has shown, in two decades of independent research on three continents, to have a significant effect in reducing levels of aggression, including bullying, among primary school children while raising social and emotional competence and increasing empathy.
With support from the Youth Endowment Fund and evaluation from Sheffield Hallam University, Roots of Empathy is delivering The Nurturing Empathy Before Transition (NEBT) project, in order to find out whether the Roots of Empathy programme is effective in raising levels of pro-social behaviour (helping, caring, sharing, including and kindness) and empathy and reducing aggression, including bullying and engagement in risky behaviour, and supporting children as they prepare to make the important and often scary transition to secondary school.
Your participation in the Nurturing Empathy Before Transition project
We are recruiting schools from areas of social disadvantage to participate. Once recruited schools will be randomly assigned to an intervention or control group.
The control group will:
With support from the Youth Endowment Fund and evaluation from Sheffield Hallam University, Roots of Empathy is delivering The Nurturing Empathy Before Transition (NEBT) project, in order to find out whether the Roots of Empathy programme is effective in raising levels of pro-social behaviour (helping, caring, sharing, including and kindness) and empathy and reducing aggression, including bullying and engagement in risky behaviour, and supporting children as they prepare to make the important and often scary transition to secondary school.
Your participation in the Nurturing Empathy Before Transition project
We are recruiting schools from areas of social disadvantage to participate. Once recruited schools will be randomly assigned to an intervention or control group.
The control group will:
- Collect teacher and student questionnaires (at the beginning and end of the school year)
- Receive a £400 incentive payment on completion of questionnaire
The intervention group will:
- Receive the Roots of Empathy programme in their school in October 2022 for their Year 5 students
- Receive training and mentoring for a school based Roots of Empathy Instructor, all programme equipment and gold standard curriculum which can be used in subsequent years
- Collect teacher and student questionnaires (at the beginning and end of the school year)
Please complete the form below to register your interest in running this programme in your school, or if you are interested in becoming a programme instructor. We will send you an invitation to join the briefing session on 18th May.
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