What We Do

The Housman Institute is a research, training, and advocacy organization that supports emotional, cognitive, and social early learning for children from birth through six years.

We work with schools, administrators, educators, mental health professionals, parents, and caregivers in the effective implementation of our evidence-based, prevention, and intervention programs with the goal of developing children’s emotional intelligence.

Our internationally recognized evidence-based begin to ECSEL promotes the development of emotional competence on the path toward self-regulation, which research shows is critical to lifelong learning, mental health well-being, and success in learning and in life. Our work is research-informed and evidence-based and our begin to ECSEL program has been quantifiably proven to improve the core competencies of self-regulation, empathy, and other critical early learning skills.

Housman Institute offers in-person and online teacher and parent training as well as a comprehensive range of products and tools that have been scientifically shown to promote the building blocks of emotional intelligence.