Mariposa Education

Mariposa Education (a.k.a. Mariposa Child Success Programs) provides targeted training and ongoing coaching and consulting that helps adults foster social-emotional and behavioral competence in young children they live or work with by focusing on those adults' skills. Established in 2002 as a nonprofit to support child development, we initially focused on parenting workshops. Recognizing how much time children spend at schools and child care centers, we expanded our curricula to include programs for child care professionals, therapists, educators, counselors, community agencies and more. We build emotional resilience in children by disrupting and replacing traditional and damaging patterns of engagement with with proven and effective methods that promote social learning while fostering positive relationships between children and adults impacting families, schools and communities for generations to come. We envision a world where adults in early childhood communities not only understand the science of stress and trauma but are coached to apply concrete actions that help them mitigate their own stress when engaging with their child, because that, and their relationship with their child, is fundamental to promoting resilience. We help communities nurture social-emotional learning in kids, where school administrators collaborate with parents and teachers without feeling like they need to choose sides; staff manage and sustain their community by conducting their own coaching; and parents feel supported and understood. Mariposa has served more than one hundred school systems; individual public, charter, private, independent and parochial schools; child care centers; community centers and organizations; corporations; and hospitals. Mariposa's advisors and trustees include executives and alumni from Living Classrooms, Learn It Systems, International Baccalaureate, Laureate Education, The Y in Central Maryland, Progressus Therapy, and faculty from Johns Hopkins.