Our Mission  |  The Emotional Literacy Movement  |  The CEL Team


PARTICIPATE IN THE EMOTIONAL LITERACY MOVEMENT!

CEL's Emotional Literacy Program is proven to produce positive, proactive behaviors and reduce harmful ones such as violence and abuse. Let's make America safer, healthier, and smarter by creating a place for Emotional Literacy Education alongside other crucial, basic disciplines like academics, physical fitness, and financial skills.

Our goal for early 2008 is to gather at least 25,000 individual $15 donations through the website to kick off the Emotional Literacy Movement in America. Your pet can help support the cause, too! Please continue reading.

This funding will support the following initiatives:

  1. A national emotional literacy awareness campaign showing a correlation between animal abuse, family violence, and criminal behaviors. Did you know that most serial killers and all the school shooters critically harmed or killed animals before killing humans? *

  2. CEL's Education Campaign in and outside of schools, to increase emotional literacy in students and diminish destructive behaviors.

  3. Establishing temporary shelter for pets of families fleeing abusive conditions and for pets of elderly people who can no longer care for them due to long term hospitalization.


Help us reach our goal by making a donation of $15 or more today.
Together we can re-vitalize our society!

YOUR PET CAN HELP SUPPORT THE CAUSE, TOO!

Each person who gives $15 or more will receive a limited edition pet bandanna which their furry friend can wear to help spread the word about Emotional Literacy.

Send us a photo of your pet wearing their bandanna, and we'll add it to our upcoming community gallery. Let's see which cities and states walk the Emotional Literacy Trail!



* Sources

"It has been found that animals are abused in 88% of families where children are abused." - Humane Education News, 1997

"Adults who had abused animals as children were much more likely to 'slap the wife,' and physically punish their children as adults." - What We Know About the Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence by Mary Lou Randour

"...It is a fact that most serial murderers started as animal abusers..." - Prima Mosi, P.A.W.S. of Austin

"...All the school shooters critically harmed and killed animals before killing humans..." - Mary Lou Randour, Former Program Director, Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Society and Animals Forum)

"...Perpetrators of domestic violence use many and any means to maintain power and control over their victims. Knowing a beloved pet is a source of weakness for the victim, perpetrators will threaten, abuse and kill animals in order to punish the victim and maintain power over them..." - Kelly Boros, Manager of Communications, Houston Area Women's Center