Thursday, February 20, 2025
The Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health (CISWH) at BU School of Social Work (BUSSW) recently collaborated with the Amal Alliance to design and perform an evaluation for Colors of Kindness, a mobile trauma-informed social-emotional learning program that helps asylum-seeking children in Massachusetts cope with trauma and learn how to communicate their feelings. The evaluation results will be released later in 2025. The program was recently featured in a news story on WCVB Boston. Speaking to the reporter, Danielle de la Fuente, Amal Alliance executive director, shared the impact the Colors of Kindness mobile curriculum has on immigrant children.
Excerpt from “5 for Good: Mobile classroom serves young children living in shelters” originally posted on WCVB Boston.
The bus specifically serves kids who are too young for regular school. On board are materials for play, but the teachers focus on lessons to support social and emotional development, using a curriculum called Colors of Kindness. Amal Alliance brought the bus and the lesson plan to Massachusetts in coordination with the state government, Horizons for Homeless Children, and Neighborhood Villages.