Highmark Healthy High 5 T.R.U.E. Cards...Life Lessons is a self-esteem tool developed by Heartwood Institute, a Highmark Healthy High 5 signature partner,  for teachers, parents, counselors, or anyone who works with children. The objectives are to:

• Stimulate conversations about character with children aged 8 to 13
• Develop an ethical vocabulary which promotes the understanding of Courage, Loyalty, Justice, Respect, Hope, Honesty and Love.
• Raise children’s awareness of “folk wisdom” contained in sayings, proverbs, and famous quotations
• Help children apply these attributes to situations in their own lives.

T.R.U.E. Cards...Life Lessons features 49 beautifully illustrated cards, detailed instructions, an attribute poster, and a training DVD for using the Cards in educational or home settings. Each Card references an universal character attribute and two powerful proverbs, sayings or quotations. The discussion questions on the back of each card spark conversations or prompt writing projects. T.R.U.E. Cards...Life Lessons have also been aligned to Pennsylvania's academic standards in the areas of reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Free samples of the T.R.U.E. Cards are available for download. All documents are PDF files and require Adobe® Reader®.

• T.R.U.E Cards #1

• T.R.U.E Cards #2

• T.R.U.E Cards #3

• T.R.U.E Cards #4

Beginning in May 2007, this educational tool for building self-esteem, designed for ages 8-13, is available without cost to classrooms in every public, charter, and private school located in the 49 Pennsylvania counties served by the Highmark Foundation. After school programs and other organizations that provide developmental instruction to children are also eligible to request sets of T.R.U.E. Cards. The Highmark served counties are:

Adams, Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Butler, Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Columbia, Cumberland, Crawford, Dauphin, Elk, Erie, Fayette, Forest, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Huntington, Indiana, Jefferson, Juniata, Lancaster, Lawrence, Lebanon, Lehigh, McKean, Mercer, Mifflin, Montour, Northampton, Northumberland, Perry, Potter, Schuylkill, Snyder, Somerset, Union, Venango, Warren, Washington, Westmoreland, York.

To participate in this exciting project, please refer to the Enrollment tab.

Highmark Healthy High 5 is a five-year, $100 million community initiative of the Highmark Foundation aimed to reverse the current trends in children's health and to promote lifelong healthy habits in children. Highmark Healthy High 5 will address five critical children's health issues including nutrition, physical activity, self-esteem, grieving and bullying - through education, communications, volunteerism, grants and programming.

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