Nina’s Coping Toolbox Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) E-Learning Curriculum 


For children ages 3–12

💖 Ages 3–5 are a key time to begin teaching social emotional learning. During this stage, children develop early communication, social, and emotional regulation skills that nurture empathy, self-control, and positive relationships. Our program strengthens these foundations, helping children grow with calm, confidence, and connection.

Why choose our program? 

🌱 A joyful learning journey that teaches children emotional awareness, self-regulation, coping tools, and healthy communication.

🌿 Trauma-informed approach that supports emotional safety, confidence, and calm learning environments.

“Trauma-informed” means children learn in a way that protects their emotional safety and helps them feel calm and supported.

💛 Easy for families, classrooms, therapists, and community programs to teach with no extra training required.

🏫 Perfect for homes, schools, daycares, after school programs, group homes, and foster care settings.

🏡 Families wanting a calm and connected home.

🌬️ Children experiencing stress, anxiety, or big transitions.

💛 Rooted in Purpose

Twenty five percent of proceeds support Healing the Roots Foundation, expanding free access to SEL tools for children and families in need.

🌿 Planting the seeds of resilience, one child, one family, and one community at a time.


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🌿 Nurture Emotional Growth

Families, educators, and organizations working together
to plant seeds of calm, confidence, and connection ✨

🌿 Rooted in Love, Learning, and Resilience

  • Evidence-Based SEL
    Foundations & Coping Skills

    Each lesson is built on proven Social Emotional Learning (SEL) practices and coping tools, blending storytelling, mindfulness, and reflection to help children and the caring adults who guide them grow together with calm and confidence.

  • Practical & Easy
    to Follow

    No extra training required. Lessons are guided, engaging, and ready to use anywhere children learn and grow, whether at home, in classrooms, or in community settings.

  • Growing Emotional
    Resilience

    By learning and practicing together, families, educators, caregivers, and community supporters help children build emotional awareness, empathy, and strong coping skills that support lifelong resilience.

✨ Inside the Toolbox

What Children Will Learn

Nina discovered amazing SEL skills and coping tools from her new friends, and now they are ready to share them with your child. 

Teaching children five core SEL skills, mindful body scanning, and eight powerful coping tools they can use for life.

Five Core SEL Skills

🌱 Self-awareness
🌬️ Self-management
🌎 Social awareness
💙 Relationship skills
✨ Responsible decision-making

 Each friend brings something special to make learning meaningful and fun:

  • Muna shows children how to use calming belly breathing to feel peaceful inside.
  • Deshun teaches ways to let go of negative thoughts and welcome positive ones.
  • Chantha introduces yoga and mindfulness to stretch, relax, and focus.
  • Trinity encourages positive affirmations and gratitude to build confidence and joy.
  • Laura helps children face fears step by step so they feel brave and strong.
  • Ray guides journaling and talking as healthy ways to share feelings and find calm.
  • Michael shares guided imagery to manage big emotions through imagination.
  • Melody brings singing and humming as playful tools to relax the mind.

Together, Nina and her friends turn learning into an adventure that helps children understand their emotions, build resilience, and grow with confidence.

🌿 Now, meet the friends who bring Nina’s Coping Toolbox to life!


Ray ✍🏾 Journaling & Sharing Feelings | Nina 💛 Understanding Feelings & Building Resilience | Deshun 💭 Positive Thinking & Letting Go | Michael 🏖️ Guided Imagery & Imagination | Trinity 🌻 Gratitude & Affirmations | Muna 🌬️ Belly Breathing & Inner Peace | Chantha 🧘🏽‍♀️ Yoga & Mindfulness | Laura 👣 Facing Fears with Courage | Melody 🎵 Singing & Relaxation

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For Schools, Programs,
and Community Organizations

Serving classrooms, districts, nonprofits, daycares, therapists, and youth programs.



👩🏽‍🏫 Designed for teachers and community organizations needing simple daily SEL support that fits smoothly into current routines.

Aligned with CASEL SEL competencies and designed to fit your day, whether you have 10 minutes or 30.

🌿 Trauma-informed SEL practices that support emotional safety and calm learning environments.

🌟 Bring this 10-week curriculum to classrooms or programs with confidence and support.

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🌿 Senior Instructor

Portia Mills Henderson

Portia Mills Henderson

I am the founder of Healing the Roots Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps children thrive beyond adversity. Through Resilient Reads LLC, I create stories and curricula that teach Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and coping tools for children, teens, and adults.

The inspiration for Nina’s Coping Toolbox came from my daughter Nina’s courage during her fourth-grade school transition. My goal is for every child to feel seen, loved, and heard, and to give them tools that nurture calm, confidence, and connection.

Twenty-five percent of all curriculum and book proceeds and 100 percent of Michael’s Rainbow Adventures sales support Healing the Roots Foundation. These funds provide free access to SEL programs, books, and emotional wellness resources for learning communities and families in need.

You can feel confident using this program because it is used in classrooms and community programs and was created by a mom who understands children’s needs and by an educator who knows what works.

As a Certified Breathe For Change Facilitator trained in Mindfulness, SEL, and Yoga, and certified in Adult Mental Health First Aid, I combine personal experience with professional training to help communities heal and grow.

🌿 Planting the seeds of resilience, one child, one family, and one community at a time.

💜 My Passion  💜 My Purpose

Healing the Roots Foundation

💜 Rooted in Healing

Your support helps us bring emotional wellness programs, coping tools, and quiet spaces to children and families in need.


If you have a financial need, visit HealingTheRootsFoundation.org to apply for a scholarship.


💜There should never be a barrier to learning these vital life skills. 🌱

🌈 Michael’s Rainbow Adventures

100% of Proceeds Donated to:
Healing the Roots Foundation

Authors

Michael L. Mills & Portia Mills Henderson


God gave me the greatest gift in allowing me to share the special moments of collaborating on this book with my uncle. Even though he is no longer here, we will always have Michael’s Rainbow Adventures… a joyful reminder of his love, creativity, and light that continues to shine forever. 🌈💛

💜 A legacy of love. Co-written with my late uncle Michael LeRoy Mills, this story embraces every feeling: happiness, sadness, grief, and all the colors in between. Together we created a heartfelt adventure that reminds children it is always okay to feel their emotions and express them in healthy ways.

💜 All proceeds from Michael’s Rainbow Adventures help fund free access to Nina’s Coping Toolbox Curriculum and emotional-wellness programs for children, families, and community partners with demonstrated financial need. This book is more than a story. It is a gift of love, hope, and healing that keeps Michael’s legacy alive through every rainbow.

💖 Purchase your copy on Amazon today to help a child learn, grow, and thrive.

🌈 Peek Inside Michael’s Rainbow Adventures