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PATHS to Success

Harrisburg School District
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

In 2002, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was awarded two federal grants: a Safe Schools/Healthy Students and a Targeted Capacity Expansion (Prevention/Early Intervention). Both projects shared a common goal - to increase community knowledge of emotional health and the importance of social emotional competencies. One of the keys to creating greater awareness was to introduce a proven Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) evidence-based intervention (EBI) to the greater Harrisburg community. Starting in the 2004-2005 school year, the EBI, Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies, or PATHS, was implemented throughout the school district. The two project directors, Lynn P