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Lit Feelings! Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a focus on literacy, social-emotional wellbeing, and artistic expression. We offer intentional, inclusive, and culturally relevant content that helps to cultivate a child's love for reading while developing fundamental social-emotional learning skills. Lit Feelings utilizes representative text sets and interdisciplinary art practices to enhance the academic and personal development of youth within the city of Chicago.

Our nonprofit provides schools and out of school time organizations with workshops focused on literacy and holistic health. Lit Feelings also provides supplemental SEL resources that are representative and inclusive. We offer Chicago's youth an opportunity to engage with culturally inclusive materials at their academic level that focuses on a specific social-emotional area of need. We help foster connections between what students read, their personal values, their identity, and the world around them.

WHAT IS SEL?

Social Emotional Learning is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.

SEL covers five main competencies: 1) self-awareness, 2) self-management, 3) social awareness, 4) responsible decision-making, and 5)relationship skills. The goal is for children to manage their own emotions in positive ways, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and resolve conflict.