What is Team Kindness?

I realized that not everyone in my Pets People Planet Connection world is familiar with Team Kindness. In my opinion, kindness is more important today than ever. So here’s a bit about it:

After I became a Certified Humane Education Specialist (CHES), I began writing the JJ the American Street Dog children’s book series. You may be familiar with JJ the American Street Dog and How He Came to Live in Our House, and JJ Goes to Puppy Class.

My friend and colleague, Virginia Hamilton who is also a CHES, a teacher and founder of Canine Commandos and Aim Humane created a lesson plan to accompany JJ The American Street Dog. The lesson plan satisfies required standards for all public schools offering MANY compassion and humane based activities.

I then started Team Kindness so that groups or classrooms can optionally receive a certificate of completion (among other goodies) once any of the activities in the lesson plan are completed. The benefit is that the children are acknowledged for their budding compassionate leadership, plus bringing home a certificate connects the family with the humane lessons learned during the school day.

Classrooms, groups like boy or girl scouts, or even home school programs play a huge role in educating kids about empathy, kindness, volunteerism and making a difference in your community.

Team Kindness offers free downloads of coloring pages, word searches and crossword puzzles plus many other resources.

And I love reading my books to children in person locally, or via Skype anywhere in the country (or around the world for that matter!) Here’s a photo of the group of kids at Camp Kindness (coincidence!) in Michigan after our Skype author visit program.

Would your school or group like to participate in a Team Kindness activity or an author visit? Learn more by visiting the website, or contacting me directly!