This Week’s P2 Focus & Newsletter

This weeks P2 Character Strength:  OPM-Supporting others when they struggle 

Good morning from your HRES Student Services Team! The Positivity Project’s Other People Mindset includes five elements that are intended to help people understand ways to build positive relationships in their own lives. This week we will focus on one element of the Supporting others when they struggle. This means when other people are having a hard time, you do your best to help them.


Quote:  “A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.”  -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Dear Families, 

This week, our school community will focus on the Other People Mindset of Supporting Others When They Struggle. This means when other people are struggling, we do our best to help them out.

Supporting other people when they struggle is a critical part of being human. There are many different approaches to helping people who are struggling. These can include listening while they describe an event and their feelings about it, taking action to help people in need, or simply being there and sitting together in silence. Everyone faces tough days and needs support, and this support leads to a chain of prosocial behavior that makes us feel good about ourselves and our group.

To practice and encourage this Other People Mindset at home, please visit The Positivity Project’s mobile-friendly P2 for Families (available in English and Spanish), where you will watch a video together and discuss a quote and three questions. Below are links to this week’s P2 for Families lessons. Click on the grade level that best meets your child’s needs.

Thank you for your support!