The Bihar Education Project Council (BEPC), Government of Bihar, and CorStone announced a next phase partnership that will benefit over 100,000 schoolchildren in the state of Bihar.
Together, the BEPC and CorStone will work to expand CorStone’s Youth First and Girls First resilience programmes across Government middle schools and Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) in all nine divisions of the state over the next three years.
CorStone’s Youth First and Girls First programmes center around a unique comprehensive resilience and adolescent health training curriculum delivered through an innovative teacher-facilitated peer group model. The programme integrates evidence-based practices from the fields of emotional resilience, positive psychology, social-emotional learning, and conflict resolution with adolescent health training to improve mental and physical well-being, school engagement, self-advocacy, social skills and relationships among youth.
“The new Bihar is eager to progress.We assure all possible support to CorStone for undertaking these resilience programmes, and also for scaling up this programme to include more schools when required. Considering the excellent work they have done in the past six years, the Government of Bihar is ready to support CorStone in their mission,” says Krishna Nandan Prasad Verma, State Education Minister, Government of Bihar.