Our Curriculum
The mission of Casey’s Clubhouse™ is to offer a holistic, CASEL-aligned integrated curriculum and support materials that make real differences in the lives of children and families, using Best Practices as our guide. We use a combination of research and technology, and pull from psychology and neuroscience as we look to support a whole mind-body system rather than just pieces and parts.
We teach 6 SECTIONS of skills...
Regulation
The ability to monitor and manage your energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors based on the environment, people, and objects in your surroundings, leading to greater self-control.
Awareness
The ability to notice what's going on outside and inside of you. Awareness of factors like the environment and people around you, as well as your energy and how you feel, help you better direct your intentions and author your life.
Determination
The ability to focus your energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors toward a certain goal while facing both the comfortable and uncomfortable, exciting and boring, and positive and negative sides of the journey.
Problem-Solving
The ability to react and respond to problems by way of calmly assessing and applying fair solutions, using effective communication and cooperation.
Confidence
The ability to rely on, trust, and believe in yourself and your power in your life and in this world. This sureness leads to greater assertion for yourself and empathy for others. Confidence is the ability to rely on, trust, and believe in others, too.
Mastery
The dedication to learn, practice, and perform something so confidently that you can teach another. It is an ongoing practice rather than a goal to achieve.
Explored through 6 CONCEPTS...
SCALE-ING
We use the idea of scales to learn how to balance our interactions, energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. We introduce an acronym called SCALE to help kids regulate with the steps: Stop, Calculate, Act, Listen, and Evaluate.
AUTHORING
We use the idea of writing, narrating, and creating our own story to learn how to increase our awareness and "edit" our interactions, energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.
TWO SIDES
We use the idea of a two-sided coin to think about how our determination is affected by positive and negative factors and how that connection changes our interactions, energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.
FOUR-SQUARE
We use the idea of four-square, a familiar children's game, to show how small and big problems interact with frequency to define a problem and lead us to solutions for our interactions, energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.
BILL OF RIGHTS
We use the idea of our bill of rights to better understand both our rights and responsibilities in friendship so we can gain the confidence we need to expect and deliver fair interactions, while balancing our energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.
YOU TEACH ME
We use the idea of You Teach Me as we close out the year to encourage club members to teach us their best understanding of lessons involving interactions, energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.
...Guided by 5 PILLARS of learning.
ME
ENERGY
EMOTION
THOUGHTs
BEHAVIOR
30 Stories, 30 Lessons, and 30 Home Activities
the star of our series:
Meet Casey!
Casey is a 4th-grade student who loves playing make-believe, reading comics, and being a good friend. But like a lot of kids his age, he feels nervous when it comes to making new friends and being in new social situations.
Casey seeks out the wisdom of his parents, friends, and other adult helpers to get him through his most difficult moments. During his adventures, he also learns to use his own wisdom to come up with his own solutions and help his friends with their challenges.
Casey seeks out the wisdom of his parents, friends, and other adult helpers to get him through his most difficult moments. During his adventures, he also learns to use his own wisdom to come up with his own solutions and help his friends with their challenges.
the voice of the series:
Laura Schneider, LMHC
Meet the Founders
Laura Schneider, LMHC
Founder / Author / Narrator
Laura Schneider is a Licensed Mental Health Therapist in the state of Washington. She has been working as a mental health counselor since 1993, helping children, adolescents, and adults find balance, gain perspective, and learn effective skills to address life's challenges. In 2019, Laura retired from her private practice to focus full-time on Casey's Clubhouse.
Laura has been working with Leslie Fields on social skills groups since 2005. She believes that social-emotional skills are essential human skills and are best received in childhood, although accessible to all ages and stages.
Her goal now is to develop Casey's Clubhouse curriculum for professionals to use the curriculum both therapeutically and educationally. Laura also teaches parenting classes and consults with parents on effective parenting skills.
In addition to her work, Laura is married and as two children and two step-children who are all grown up! She loves to write, paint, draw, and travel.
Leslie Fields, LMHC
Founder
Leslie Fields currently works as a counselor in private practice for children, tweens, and parents. She is a Sandplay Practitioner, STA. Her passion as been to improve and enhance children's social experiences.
She worked with Terri Hollingsworth, LICSW, for 18 years as co-leader of Wally's Club. She then opened Wally's Club Eastside with Laura Schneider, LMHC, in 2005.
Together they developed their own social skills curriculum, workbook, and training program for Casey's Clubhouse.
In addition to her career, Ms. Fields is married and is a step-mom and grandmother. She loves her dog Mulligan, who is a Reading with Rover volunteer dog. She loves to play tennis, dance, drum, and travel.
Rachel Janis Doerflinger, BA
Creative Director
Rachel Janis Doerflinger holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Knox College in Illinois. She has been working since 2019 to help her mother-in-law, Laura Schneider, establish a new and contemporary creative direction for the Casey's Clubhouse brand.
She worked alongside Laura to create character rigs and animate the curriculum, lending her innovative eye for detail and organization to make the curriculum feel consistent and modern. She also writes web content, creates graphics, and polishes the look of the website.
When she's not working, Rachel loves writing poetry, making art, eating sushi, and spending time with her wife, calico cat, and doodle pup!
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30 stories
30 lessons
30 home activities