Select Los Angeles-area middle schools will participate in an interactive digital character-education program funded by the NFL and United Way, the league and nonprofit organization announced Thursday.
Character Playbook aims to educate seventh- through ninth-grade students how to cultivate and maintain healthy relationships.
The program is comprised of six interactive, digital modules that cover key concepts around positive character development, social-emotional learning and building healthy relationships.
The program enables students to engage with true-to-life scenarios that include bystander intervention strategies and positive relationship examples.
Character Playbook will initially be implemented in 14 NFL markets, then expanded to all the league’s markets over the next three years.
“The NFL has a long-standing commitment to making positive change across society,” Commissioner Roger Goodell said in Chicago, the site of the NFL draft, in announcing the program.
“Helping young people learn to act with integrity, become leaders, and stand up for others are important values.
“Our continued partnership with United Way will help ensure that students throughout the United States can learn these important attributes at the youngest ages and become caring and productive citizens in our communities.”
–City News Service