New Jersey Alliance for Social, Emotional, and Character Development

The New Jersey Alliance for Social, Emotional, and Character Development (NJASECD) focuses on these basic and essential values. NJASECD believes there is no place for racism, abuse, or mean spiritedness in our daily lives, in our homes, in schools, at work, or in our society. Everyone can and must do better to be the change we need to move our world forward into equality and fairness. Parents, children, educators, businesses, leaders, the people of America, and the world need to pay attention to this moment as a special opportunity to bring peace, understanding, empathy, and a sense of dignity and wellbeing to all people of every race, sexual orientation, and religion. As members of the human race, we owe our children and our children’s children a world in which the social construct of race has no power to affect how we grow, learn, live, and be happy. Every person deserves to live without fear of reprisal, racism, or violence for being who they are.

The paradigm shift to equal rights, mentorship, and mindful awareness of others needs to be conscious, unswerving, and immediate. NJASECD serves our state partnering with the educational community through social emotional learning and character development and encourages businesses and workplaces to do the same. Investing in professional development, guiding our young to “stop and think” about our history of race-based injustice, hurtful actions, making responsible and respectful choices, and expecting the same of all adults must be our first step in healing our awful and detrimental societal wounds. Those in power need to set a positive example and be held accountable for their leadership and behavior. NJASECD supports positive change for all mankind and encourages each person to reflect on how they can change their own part of the world for the better. When every person commits to making change, we will have the success we are seeking for our common good.