Sandy Chafouleas
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of educational psychology at UConn's Neag School of Education and co-founder of Feel Your Best Self, an award-winning puppet-based emotion-coping toolkit for children.
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Sep 23, 2026
Lisa MuellerHOST
So describe for us a little bit when someone gets one of these toolkits and they go to your website at feelyourbestself.org, what do they see the very first time? You see the characters first and
Sandy ChafouleasGUEST
foremost right at the top, right? So you go to feelyourbestself.org and there are tabs like every other website at the top.
Sandy ChafouleasGUEST
And I think the one that we continue to struggle with and figure out the workarounds around how to make sure that it can be accessible to everyone.
Sandy ChafouleasGUEST
that takes you kind of to a simple version where you can easily get to the videos and the basic steps of each of the strategies.
Sandy ChafouleasGUEST
And that's like the basic version, right? And you can click or tab in between there for Spanish or English.
Sandy ChafouleasGUEST
So anything that's forward facing Um, you can find in Spanish or English and be able to do that.
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Lisa MuellerHOST
So how did those particular partnerships help turn this into, you know, this one two-time small classroom kind of project into what's now become a national program? Can I just say like a glorious