OUR PROGRAMS
Provide an opportunity for students to learn the real-world application of the skills we teach

ALIVE 2 THRIVE
Alive 2 Thrive – is our comprehensive personal life skills curriculum, offering students, parents, teachers, administrators and mentors the critical resources aimed at helping middle and high school students tackle life’s difficult challenges. To learn more click here.
ACKNOWLEDGING ACTS OF KINDNESS
Acknowledging Acts of Kindness – The goal of the Acknowledging Acts of Kindness Club is to recognize and reward those who have gone above and beyond in showing kindness to others. People who help others are the best role models and recognizing their acts of kindness helps to promote this behavior in our community and beyond. We strive to promote a ‘Culture of Kindness’. To learn more click here.


WIN THE BIGGEST GAME: LIFE
We start to win or lose the biggest game the day we are born by what we are taught and how we react. Our personalities are influenced by our surroundings: our parents, siblings, the things we watch on TV and the computer, school and the company we keep after school. To learn more click here.
CHOOSING LOVE TODAY: PUT THE COURAGE + GRATITUDE +FORGIVENESS + COMPASSION = THE CHOOSE LOVE FORMULA
Santoro Education Lifeskills Foundation SELF put together the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement and The University of South Florida and funded the ChooSELove to Thrive program. This program was initiated in April 2020 during the peak of Covid-19 quarantining. The goal was to develop 3 months’ worth of tips to help parents staying home and/or out of work cope with their ever-changing lives and their children. To view the ChooSELove to Thrive 90 day tip program. To learn more click here.


EARLY LEARNING HAND-UP SCHOLARSHIP & ALIVE2THRIVE HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP
Santoro Education Lifeskills Foundation SELF currently offers two scholarships one being the quality early learning Hand Up Scholarship, and the other being our Alive2Thrive personal life skills program scholarship for high school students. Currently, both of these scholarships are being offered in the greater Sumter County, Florida area, with a goal of possibly expanding these scholarships into other areas around the state as well. To learn more click here.
How to use santorofoundation.org
This website is a free resource of material to help improve your social and emotional intelligence. The material on this website ranges from individual “sayings” to a full curriculum program called Alive2Thrive. To help you become your best self, please review all this site has to offer. It is important you pass this site along to others so they can be the best they can be and by doing so we will build the best society.